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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Trying to make sense of virtualised development
Well it had to be that when VMware and Salesforce.com got together to make an announcement of a new partnership called vmForce it was going to stir up my, and I guess your, interest. But what exactly did they announce? Is it a highly effective solution, but a proprietary lock-in, or a move to place Java development on equal footing with .Net development on Microsoft Azure? Well, opinions of the real experts on the topic …
Complicated or complex architecture or solutions
This started with my preparing a plenary keynote for the World Congress of IT, or WCIT, that I am delivering tomorrow. The theme calls for a new partnership between government and business in terms of the provisioning and use of technology in the creation of the emerging society we see today. It’s long been a theme of mine at government, or EU, events that what we need to focus on is not eGovernment, but eCitizens. …
Slow IT and The Fifth Conference
I was recently interviewed by The Fifth Conference, a ‘platform for vision and enterpreneurship’ about the concept of Slow IT: finding the right pace and dedication in both building and using technology. The full interview is here. Have a look (take the proper time to read it, I would almost say). Your builds are most welcome.
Green isn’t always good!
It often seems that there is an automatic acceptance that ‘green is good’ and therefore I was initially a little shocked to be sent a piece from my colleague Stephen Timbers entitled ‘Green isn’t always good’. But suspend any reactions until you read this post because it is a factual approach to finding the right balance, and as an engineer I thoroughly applaud his approach and argument. See what you make of his views!
On the front line with CIOs
It’s been an interesting week on the front line with CIOs, first at PegaWorld in Philadelphia and later in Boston at a CIO Magazine roundtable. The CIO roundtable provided a really good view of the mega issues being faced, and the enthusiasm on display at PegaWorld for embracing new techniques in developing solutions to tackle these issues in a new way really surprised me. The first clear change was the number and quality of CIOs …
Are we in the Null Zone? Are you frightened of hotels? And a practical tip on what to do!
Back around the middle of 2001 after the fear, excitement and expenditure surrounding the Year 2000, or ‘Y2K, ‘problem’ died away and the then promise of the Internet as a force of transformation was being talked about, a colleague started talking about ‘the Null Zone’. He drew a neat little PowerPoint which showed a classic ‘crossing the chasm’ bell curve going from a slow flat start, ramping up sharply as the market grew, before flattening …
The Art of Enterprise Information Architecture
I just wanted to share the foreword I wrote for The Art of Enterprise Information Architecture, a book written by Eberhard Hechler and 5 of his colleagues at IBM. Obviously, I recommend the book to all of you. In the past two years, I have been more and more involved in what my company, Capgemini, fondly has started to describe as the “Business Technology Agora”: a place where IT and business people meet, make decisions, …
What does the future IT department look like? Some new ideas to consider
It’s a perennial topic for sure, but it usually focuses on how well aligned IT operations are to the business, or changes in skills, delivery methods, outsourcing, and so on. In short, all evolutions of running the IT model as we know it today and not dealing with the real question: how should the role of technology be managed within the enterprise? In today’s enterprise, technology touches everything and that means a wide mixture of …
