Enterprises require directory services as part of the information technology (IT) infrastructure that supports naming, locating, discovering, describing, authenticating, and managing identities and resources within an enterprise network or IT environment...

The IT Architecture CMM developed by the Department of Commerce (DoC) provides a framework that represents the key components of a productive IT Architecture process. The CMM delineates an evolutionary way to improve the overall process that starts out...

There’s been a bunch of buzz about “the mesh” since Ray Ozzie alluded to it at last month’s MIX Conference. As Ray said there, we’ve been exploring the concept of “the mesh” for a couple of years now. We started by asking ourselves a series of questions...

The picture below illustrates the skill set that an architect needs to have: The picture below depicts the different flavors of architects: And below another attempt of illustrating the different flavors: Where do all these nice architect pictures come...

Once SQL Server 2008 becomes generally available, we will follow with an updated version of BizTalk Server designed for the latest versions of Windows Server, the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, and SQL Server. This will mean that BizTalk Server customers...

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The software development community pursues the development of software systems with a higher degree of reuse, reduction of costs, and shorter time to market. One of the successful mechanisms followed to achieve these goals is based on sharing the development...

Burton Group - Reference Architecture Principles Principles are statements of an enterprise's values and policies, and how they translate to IT architecture. They provide the primary linkage between business, organizational (e.g., human capital), and...

Read all about it at : http://blogs.msdn.com/johanroosen/archive/2008/04/03/innovation-discovery-day-8th-may.aspx

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe. WorldWide Telescope...

Shift in application architecture over the years A critical shift in the concept of an "application" is well under way. Once end users stopped creating their own monolithic applications, applications became vendor-constructed monoliths — mass-market...

Application Development (AD) is approaching two dramatic changes: the death of applications as we know them and the death of application development projects as we've known them. Death of applications as we know them As service orientation becomes more...

As senior architects often interface with CIOs, understanding how CIOs spend their time is indicative of what they care about. Here is trident picture of CIO roles and % of time they spend on each role based on the research from CISR at MIT.

Forefront codename “Stirling” is an integrated security system that delivers comprehensive, coordinated protection across endpoints, messaging and collaboration servers, and the network edge that is easier to manage and control. At release, “Stirling...

An interesting article you’ll probably feel immediately identified with as it talks about the difficulties in promoting Agile processes inside long-life organizations (ancient financial institutions or other companies with a culture already hardened along...

Gartner ITxpo 2008 presentation: Justifying Emerging Technologies to Business Leaders Supporting emerging technologies can have a profound effect on how enterprises support their IT infrastructure, how people work and on our business models. However,...

In January, 2008, Dr. Dobb's ran a survey which explored the adoption rate and effectiveness of various process frameworks, in particular COBIT, CMMI, ITIL, PMI PMBoK, Prince2, TOGAF, and Zachman Framework. The survey ran for a week and it was promoted...

Gartner ITxpo 2008 presentation: How to Handle Global Delivery 10 Things to do for Offshore Outsourcing Success: 1. Establish a sourcing strategy before determining the choice of country and vendor. 2. Decide upon the type of deal that you want. 3. Establish...

David Linthicum just posted a timely article called Why Enterprise Architecture is a Corporate Responsibility. In the article he talks about compliance, the need to adapt to business change rapidly, and the need to keep up with competitors who are becoming...

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software architecture guidance: Unity Application Block April 2008 Release (1.0) Resources · MSDN site: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc468366...