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Monday - June 15, 2009

Let's talk about the next era of information technology. We seem to be in it, but we don't have a name for it yet. Suddenly, "cloud computing" is the dominant buzzword of the day, but the current confluence of trends includes much more. There is business process modeling, business intelligence, complex event processing, service-oriented architecture, Software as a Service, Web-oriented architecture, and even Enterprise 2.0. How do all of these relate? Or if they don't relate, is there a common theme? Is there an overriding über direction for IT that we need to consider? [More...]

Legacy Software: Rebuilding the Ship in Rough Waters

Thursday - June 4, 2009

As the market recedes further and companies look to shed cost in any way feasible, many look inwardly in order to find key areas for improvement. Aberdeen's research shows that the top business pressures forcing companies in the direction of legacy application modernization are largely internal. The top two pressures have to do with agility. [More...]

The Enterprise Architect: White Knight or Wallflower?

Monday - May 25, 2009

The role of enterprise architecture has never been more important, and never have IT departments had to be as responsive to the businesses they support as now. So how are enterprise architects perceived in a daunting economic recession, as saviors or door stops? During a recent panel discussion, at The Open Group's 22nd annual Enterprise Architecture Practitioner's Conference in London, this question was probed. [More...]

IBM Weaves Cloud, Appliance, BPM, CEP and SOA Into One Fabric

Thursday - May 7, 2009

In an effort to provide needed cohesion across its products and solutions, IBM has unveiled a cloud-based BPM service, tighter alignment with Amazon, better CEP integration, reintroduced a WebSphere private cloud appliance and double-downed on a slew of its industry framework solutions. [More...]

Let the IT Land Grab Begin

Monday - April 27, 2009

The reported acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle makes a ton more sense than IBM's earlier failed bid. This new compact, if it succeeds, will bring as good an end to an independent Sun as the pioneering IT vendor could have hoped for at this sorry stage in its history. However, there are much larger implications in Oracle's latest super-grab than Sun's demise and assimilation. [More...]

Open Source and the Cloud: Pay Dirt or Parasite?

Monday - April 20, 2009

The productivity and perils of open source software has been a topic pretty much beaten to death. Yet the landscape in IT, as always, is shifting -- because of the recession and because of a white-hot interest in cloud computing. It's time again, then, to look at the pluses and minuses of open source software models in the context of tight IT budgets and the advent of cloud-based services for enterprises. [More...]

IT Cost-Cutting: Consider Virtualization, Look to the Cloud, Check Out Open Source

Monday - March 30, 2009

Doing more for less in IT? Sure, easier said than done. But who said it couldn't be done? We took the question of how to cut information technology costs in the downturn to five analysts and consultants, who can both say and do. The result is the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 38, a periodic discussion and dissection of IT infrastructure related news and events. [More...]

BPEL4People: Remaining Human While Automating Processes

Monday - March 16, 2009

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 37, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, our guests examine the essential topic of bringing human activity into alignment with standards-based IT supported business processes. [More...]

Cloud Computing: Not Always the Best Solution

Monday - March 9, 2009

A panel of experts was assembled at The Open Group's Enterprise Cloud Computing Conference in San Diego to examine how cloud computing aligns with enterprise architecture. The discussion raised the question: What will real enterprises need to do to gain savings and productivity in the coming years to exploit cloud computing resources and methods. [More...]

In Software Architecture, Quality Equals Security

Monday - March 2, 2009

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in February held its first Security Practitioners Conference in San Diego. A panel of experts was assembled at the conference to examine how enterprise security intersects with enterprise architecture. Aligning the two deepens the security protection across more planning- and architectural-level activities. [More...]

TOGAF 9: Information Trumps Technology

Monday - February 23, 2009

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in early February delivered TOGAF 9, an enterprise architecture framework. TOGAF 9 represents a departure for enterprise architecture frameworks in general. It's larger, more mature, and modular to allow folks to enter it from a variety of perspectives. [More...]

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