Integrators certainly know as well as anyone that technology infrastructures are growing increasingly complex. Today, an organization's infrastructure includes everything from network interface cards ...

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This last fortnight there’s been a cacophony of hyperbole and at times marketing fluff from vendors and analysts with regards to Reference Architectures and Converged Infrastructures. As IBM launched ...

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In addition to converged infrastructure solutions, various vendors and solution providers offer reference architectures, which are basically blueprints or frameworks for deploying converged ...

Some of you may have tuned into the Shared Insights Webinar on "Marching Toward SOA: Does EA Lead the Band?" I can't find the archive of it, by the way. However, there is a good summary article here, ...

There's nothing more that architects love to do than argue about definitions. If you ever find yourself with idle time in a room of architects, try asking for a definition of "service" or ...

Get a complete overview of the actors and their roles and the necessary architectural components for managing and providing cloud services. The adoption of cloud computing into the U.S. Government and ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

A few people who have been reading my blog and listening to my Podcast, as well as reading other SOA blogs and articles, have become a bit confused pertaining to the notions of: - SOA Reference ...