Enterprise Architecture & Other Enterprise Topics

Twitter: Is the Cloud Computing conversation nothing more than vendor PR?

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:36:02 PDT

Most of the chatter that comes across my Twitter client is a rehashing of what is being said at conferences.

Architecting the Cloud: Testing performance in your cloud application

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:34:36 PDT

This approach is iterative and agile and aims at removing performance risks earlier in the lifecycle thus reducing the risk of project delays.

Struggling for an ROI? Why not Practice EA?

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:14:11 PDT

It seems that the ROI is a hard thing to derive and explain in business terms these days.

How Technology is Drastically Changing the Future of Business

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:27:29 PDT

Todays announcement of 3Tera�s AppStore is just another mounting piece of evidence of how technology is drastically changing the business landscape of our future.

Cloud Computing: A lot of talking, not much walking

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:50:27 PDT

The missing perspective is the one from architects who are actually building enterprise solutions in the cloud.

Secure Hybrid Cloud Architectures

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:13:16 PDT

There are a lot of discussions going on about security and compliance in the cloud.

My Summary of the IBM Impact 2009 Conference in Vegas

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:39:59 PDT

My thoughts on the IBM Impact 2009 conference

So much failure, so little architecture

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:38:23 PDT

How many times do we have to fail before somebody wakes up?

Your biggest competitor may not exist yet

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:57:00 PDT

There are many reasons why you should be worried about new startups if you are a big monolithic company

The real problem with Cloud Computing...People

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:13:58 PDT

I said the same thing when we in the extreme hype & FUD stage of SOA

Strategies for developing a Roadmap for your SOA initiative

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:16:00 PDT

Since I have written so much about the architecture side of the equation, my focus in this article was on strategies for SOA roadmaps.

Cloud Insanity - Focusing on all the wrong things again

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:20:15 PDT

The same patterns of destruction that caused so many SOA failures are apparent once again.

My thoughts on Cloud Computing after the Cloud Computing Expo

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:43:21 PDT

I spent two days at the Cloud Computing Expo in NYC this past week and want to share my thoughts on the state of the cloud

Trying to change IT for the better

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:30:54 PDT

I have never seen so many extremely smart individuals but so many under performing teams.

Garbage in the Clouds

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:36:56 PDT

If each project is implemented in a silo without any thought to the future needs of data integration, you will wind up with garbage in the clouds.