The Canadian IT Architecture Connection blog posted about a one day EA course that may be interesting to folks in that area. See below for details: Phil Unger, from the Calgary Enterprise Architecture Forum , is organizing a one-day course focused on...

A interesting post from Michael Bullock talks about Google’s new patient approach to put data centers on ships. This was also covered in Time as one of the best inventions of 2008 . Like Michael, I think that this is somewhat problematic. We will have...

I ran across a good post by Ed Carroll called " Reducing the Cost of Engineering/IT " on the CIO forums. He outlines 4 Areas to Reduce Cost. Below are the 4 ways to reduce cost in IT: Simplify the operating structure of the department by focusing...

I am excited to announce a new Microsoft employee product, two new Walker's. On Thursday January 22nd the proud mom and dad (me) delivered two healthy baby boy twins.   As some of you may of noticed, my blogging has dropped significantly over the...

If you would like a free version of the report from Forrester Troux is giving away a limited number of copies. See the details below from their promotional mailer: We're delighted that Troux's market leadership in IT Planning and EA Tools has been recognized...

There is a lot of EA events happening in the next few weeks. The Open Group is having an event that looks to be the most significant in years. They are launching two other practitioner conferences in conjunction with the architecture practitioner conference...

Gabriel Morgan really hit the ball out of the park with his post on Enterprise Solution Architects and Leadership . He did a great job of decomposing and translating concepts from Emotional Intelligence (EI) into something that all architects will be...

I ran across an interesting post and interview on the MS Data Center Blog on the infrastructure architecture aspects of the new Microsoft datacenters. If you are in the infrastructure world, it is worth a read. The goal of Gen 4 is to modularize not only...

As followers of my blog know, I do many speaking engagements. Often times I get requests for those decks from the conference or event. Instead of sharing with a select few I thought I would share with everyone. You can find some of the major presentations...

Another EA framework player emerges in 2009, the Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PeaF) . I did skim and let me stress that I didn’t do a detailed analysis of the framework. Below is the overview of the framework in their words: PeaF has been...

In this release both the Windows Azure Tools & the SDK was updated Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Windows Azure SDK What's hot in the new refresh? The problem with VS hanging when you hit F5, this is a huge fix. Fix regarding the...

Facebook is the hot new platform to integrate to these days. Yes, I said platform… Facebook isn’t just a MySpace.com clone, but another player in the cloud services space. Everyone from Microsoft & Apple to even Visa wants to have a hooks into this...

1I6 had an interesting e-mail thread with some folks here at Microsoft talking about delivering content for architects and thought I would share. What was interesting about the conversation was that sometimes folks blur the perspectives of looking at...