Browse by Tags

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now

This week I've talked with a couple of organizations about cloud deployments and expected benefits. One thing that I found interesting is the difference in HP's perspective from other providers. When a service provider (like HP Enterprise Services...

Published 11-14-2009 1:28 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Trends, Technology adoption, Architecture

Application portfolio assessment's many benefits

Recently HP released a video about application portfolio assessment discussing some of the tools allowing developers to see into the complexity of the code they maintain. It is clear that there are many mechanisms now available that didn't exist a...

Published 09-26-2009 5:23 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Green IT, Applications, Architecture

Enterprise Architectures role in combating cloud sprawl

In a recent article in Computerworld there was a discussion of the phenomenon of cloud computing expanding uncontrollably in an enterprise. Cloud was compared to the client/server and departmental computing shift that took place in the late 80s and 90s...

Published 09-17-2009 7:25 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Enterprise Architecture , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Utility computing, Architecture, Change management

True Cloud – Virtualization Not Required

That may be a bold title, given that virtualization , and anything related to it, was all the rage just a few years ago. But lately, I have been pondering the implications of native cloud application architectures on the underlying infrastructure . A...

Published 08-31-2009 4:33 PM by ed.reynolds@hp.com

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Infrastructure , Applications, Virtualization, IaaS, Architecture

Is Enterprise Architecture Emergent?

Gartner has settled on the term "Emergent Architecture" to describe what that they view as a new type of Enterprise Architecture (EA). It is focused on the connection between the business rather than the products and structures that are used...

Published 08-31-2009 2:20 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Knowledge management, Technology adoption, Architecture

Applications vs. aggregations in the cloud

I was talking with someone earlier this week about cloud-based solution architecture. They had a leader who wanted to see a template "application architecture". I told them that the whole concept of an " application " may be relatively...

Published 08-01-2009 12:21 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , PaaS , SaaS, Trends, Utility computing, IaaS, Architecture

A CTO for all seasons

Following on from Charlie Bess' article about the different definitions of Enterprise Architecture , I thought I would expand the discussion a bit and look at the different types of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) roles as illustrated in the following...

Published 07-20-2009 2:11 PM by mateen greenway

Filed under: Enterprise Architecture , Business value generation , Architecture, Change management

Enterprise Architecture is not the same for everyone

One of the concerns that organizations have about defining their enterprise architecture (EA) is that it takes foundational understanding of the business and its objectives. The Infromation Technology Enterprise Architecture team may take as much investment...

Published 07-05-2009 3:34 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Architecture, Change management

Modeling Specification for Enterprise Architecture - ArchiMate®

Last month The Open Group formally announced that it had adopted ArchiMate® Version 1 as a standard for modeling Enterprise Architecture (EA). In the press release The Open Group calls ArchiMate® a "new language" but it is hardly new...

Published 06-05-2009 9:29 PM by Terry__White

Filed under: Architecture, Architecture

The English language and software architecture advancement

I was in a meeting with some of the other EDS fellows the other day and we were talking about software architectures and the changes that are underway in how people think about them. During the conversation, we were talking about the data centric view...

Published 11-16-2005 10:40 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Modeling, Architecture

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Archives