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Gartner Webinar: Selling Key Stakeholders on Enterprise Architecture
[15 Oct 2008 | No Comment | 74 views]

Robert Handler of Gartner is presenting.
This is one of seven Key Initiatives for Enterprise Architecture.
“Failure to… change the behavior of others leads to failure itself”.  You must understand the people aspects and you must sell EA to succeed.
They had 600+ clients take a maturity survey to see where they are at in the area of [...]

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Advanced CAMP - Part 3
[20 Jun 2008 | No Comment | 6 views]

Merri Beth Lavagnino - Privacy and Policy
Policy and privacy are really consideration of the human aspects and impacts of technology.  Policies are: strategic direction and operating philosophy (which are usually informal and cultural), Public and Institutional policies (these are both documented and usually legal documents).
Institutional policy - a statement that reflect the philosophies and [...]

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Advanced CAMP - Part 2
[19 Jun 2008 | No Comment | 19 views]

Dave Gimpl:  Computing as a Service
Infrastructure for vaporware.  They are working on the infrastructure that enables cloud-computing.
Challenges in the data center:  rising costs of the operations, the explosion of data, the difficulty of deploying new application and services, the difficulty in managing complex virtual machine systems.  When you map the business processes, they map [...]

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Advanced CAMP - Registering, Discovering and Using Distributed Services Part1
[19 Jun 2008 | No Comment | 12 views]

R.L. Bob doing the introduction: 
Advanced CAMP could mean to some people the advanced topics beyond just the basics.  Bob likes to think of it as the Advance Camp out in the wilderness where you are more likely to get caught in a blizzard, get shot and generally face the wilderness.
The theme that came out [...]

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ITANA Face 2 Face - Security Architecture
[18 Jun 2008 | No Comment | 13 views]

Indiana University
Completed a 10 year Strategic Plan which worked because they connected money to it.  You couldn’t get funding unless you showed how your project connected to one of the 71 strategic initiatives.  Completed a 10 year tactical Telecom Plan.  Instead of replacing 1/4 of the switches every year for four years, they [...]

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