Enterprise Architecture & Other Enterprise Topics

Which cloud service model is right for you?

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:33:30 PDT

I often get asked why we chose IaaS as our cloud service model when we built our high speed transaction network in the cloud.

Cloud outages, redundancy, and unicorns

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:08:55 PDT

If you want to build a solution that is agnostic to the cloud provider, you cannot use the robust services like Cloudwatch, S3, RDS, etc.

Doubting the cloud? Are you doing your company a disservice?

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:28:17 PST

I ask this question because most people I see who are resisting the movement to cloud computing are either working for the vendor companies who are threatened by it or thinking more about their own belief system and job security then about the needs of their business.

Cloud Computing: It's all about architecture

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:11:12 PST

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Resurrecting SOA

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:51:58 PST

Anne Thomas Manes presents her thoughts on SOA

Random thoughts about the future of technology

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:46:25 PST

Here is where I see technology going over the next 5 years.

Cloud Computing Case Study: M-Dot's high speed transaction network

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:21:10 PST

In this post I will show how my company used cloud computing to build an impressive high speed transaction network on a bootstrapped budget and went from unknowns to leaders in the market in just 2 years.

Taking the "Disaster" out of Disaster Recovery!

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:21:10 PDT

With the right architecture, your cloud based DR plan can actually can actually provide fully redundant virtual data centers that are active, not passive, and available 24�7 for a fraction of the costs.

Developer returns from stone age, finds nirvana

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:45:47 PDT

This week I dove back into coding and have totally embraced how productive the new world is versus the environments that I coded in back in the day. Here is my story.

Enterprise Archtiects and the MBA

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:33:18 PDT

Todd Biske asked the following question on Twitter earlier in the week: Should Enterprise Architects have/get an MBA?

How the cloud has changed testing forever

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:15:03 PDT

In this post I discuss three examples of how my company (M-Dot Network) has leveraged the cloud for testing in ways that are not even feasible in the on-premise world.

What corporate IT should learn from Startups: Part 2 - Roadmaps

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:24:57 PDT

If you start with the current state you immediately constrain the innovation process for future state.

What corporate IT should learn from Startups: Part 1 - Process

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:48:08 PDT

Why do startups tend to move faster and innovate more?

Startups, cloud computing, and the freedom to innovate

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:26:17 PDT

Startups have been the ones innovating with cloud computing while the bigger, established companies are still trying to understand the pros and cons of the cloud.

Zynga launches Cloud Wars on Facebook

madgreek65@gmail.com (Mike Kavis) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:33:42 PDT

Cloud Wars, based on the popular game, Mafia Wars, allows gamers to start off as a lowly mainframe programmer and work their way up...