by Bruce Robertson | May 4, 2011 | 11 Comments
It’s all the rage on Capital Hill — can environmental legislation take a new step toward reducing global warming by another round of cap and trade targetting new thresholds of air quality. As The Washington Post covered in Vehicle Emission Rules to Tighten, the US Federal government seems to be moving to enact legislation setting [...]
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by Bruce Robertson | May 4, 2011 | 12 Comments
Next week I’ll be presenting on this “Enterprise Technical Architecture in 4 Slides” topic at Gartner’s EA Summit conference in London, and then again on June 22-23 in San Diego (event details in the links per event — follow the event on twitter using the #GartnerEA hashtag or me directly @brucemr). We’ve noticed (since we review so many [...]
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by Bruce Robertson | May 4, 2011 | 10 Comments
How has Amazon architected their store and logistics applications (sites, systems, solutions) with an extreme SOA architecture, and then how have they taken a similar extreme services architecture approach for infrastructure services with Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
by Bruce Robertson | December 6, 2010 | 10 Comments
At Gartner’s Data Center Conference this week in Las Vegas, I’m hoping to get lots of input on how infrastructure leaders manage infrastructure investment.
by Bruce Robertson | October 15, 2010 | 11 Comments
Many of you who read Gartner blogs and specifically our EA team’s blogs will be attending our Symposium/ITxpo conference next week. As I was using the “My Agenda” function to setup my own time, I thought it would be wise to mention a few things we’re covering on EA topics at the conference for others [...]
by Bruce Robertson | September 16, 2010 | 10 Comments
The Washington Post recently published an article discussing the difficulties the Commonwealth of Virginia has had with it’s IT systems: Crash of Va. computer network has implications for tech world, state politics. Apparently, something went wrong in the outsourced IT capability managed by Northrup Grumman in a $2.4B contract. It has impacted multiple agencies, including [...]
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by Bruce Robertson | August 24, 2010 | 5 Comments
Over the past few years, conversations with my sister about architecture have started with her reminding me that she’s an architect and I’m not. She’s the building type. Got certified and licensed. Advanced degree. She believes that we shouldn’t even be using the term architect in our IT centered world — since they have a [...]
by Bruce Robertson | June 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
Have you ever written a case study about ANYTHING concerning EA value in your organization? Our research suggests that most of you have not ever done this.
by Bruce Robertson | April 27, 2010 | 217 Comments
I was intrigued by this recent article The New York Times: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint. It notes that “PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of U.S. military commanders and reached the level of near obsession.” Give it a read. Others have discussed this as well — my Google search turned [...]
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by Bruce Robertson | February 9, 2010 | 15 Comments
While application portfolio management (APM) is one reasonably mature version of solution portfolio management in Enterprise Solution Architecture (ESA), we extend the idea of managing investments in application assets to infrastructure infrastructure assets, specifically shared infrastructure services. We call this infrastructure portfolio management (IPM).
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