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Cloud Architect Forum 25th September London

Short notice, but definitely worth coming too (places limited to 90). The architect forum on the...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 09/07/2009

Certifying IT Architects (second try)

So loads of people looked at my last post on this subject but few actually decided to respond to the...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 08/04/2009

Do architects need certifying?

Following on from my "mind the architect gap" posting the other day we've put up a quick poll on the...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 08/01/2009

Projects failures on the up …

A final thought before the weekend … I received the 2009 Standish CHAOS report from a colleague the...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 07/31/2009

Architect Insight Conference breakout videos now live!

Finally after much angst the breakout sessions from AIC09 are now live here!

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 07/28/2009

Upcoming North Eastern Cloud Events

Quick note before going on leave to make sure you are aware of the following cloud events in...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 07/17/2009

Windows Azure Stick Man

Great explanation of Windows Azure from Steve Marx … Video: What is Windows Azure?

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 07/16/2009

Mind the architect gap

I’m fortunate to know and work with a great many really influential architects both within my...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 07/16/2009

I’m GenX and proud of it!

You can imagine how I feel now! I’d always thought I was “Baby boomer” but according to Robin...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 07/15/2009

Bletchley Park Architect Council – Video fixes

Just a note to say that the videos in the previous posting have been fixed:)! Bletchley Park...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 07/08/2009

IE8 Web Accelerators - I just love the video:)!

Just had to share this …  

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 07/07/2009

The Interoperability Files: Defining Interoperability and Integration Part 2

Ah Mr Nanni, I am indeed humbled and excited at reading your reply to my posting on Defining...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 07/06/2009

The Interoperability files: Defining Interoperability and Integration

Something that has confused and annoyed me over quite a few years are the words Interoperability and...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 07/03/2009

Umwelt!

Just found that the German for environment is Umwelt after getting a mail from MS Germany on the...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 06/29/2009

Implications of the Cloud

This March I met with 30 senior architects for two days to discuss cloud computing and what impact...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 06/29/2009

Sustainable Lifecycle and Innovation Management @ TechNet Virtual Conference

  Just realised that I’m presenting at the TechNet Virtual Conference this Friday:)!! Boy was...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 06/15/2009

Architect Insight Slides now live!!!

Finally, after much delay I can confirm that the slide decks and keynote video are now available for...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 06/13/2009

Home: The amazing story of us – have you got the guts to watch?

The incredible story of humanity that you must watch. Pick your moment as this is not a 10 second...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 06/12/2009

Architect Insight Pictures

I'm still battling to get the video's of the event up on www.microsoft.com/uk/aic2009 - and they'll...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 06/11/2009

The Cloud, the architect, IT and the great disruption

Here's the deck I presented to Accenture technical consultants. Bit of fun and got a chance to give...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 06/07/2009

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Back from a week's leave and all ready to go when I get ... "Cannot start microsoft office outlook....

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 06/01/2009

Four reasons to go Green!

So by now we all pretty much know that we need to take significant action on climate change but the...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 04/20/2009

Announcing the 4th Microsoft Architect Insight Conference

After much effort by a great many people I'm delighted to say that we'll be holding the 4th annual...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 03/26/2009

Next UK IASA Meeting ...

A date for your diaries ... Netuitive: Taking Guesswork Out of IT Performance ManagementTuesday,...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 03/01/2009

What ISVs should know about hosting/building on cloud/PaaS

I had the pleasure of talking at an IBM hosted SIIA event yesterday and thought it worth sharing...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 02/19/2009

Anatomy of Software + Services

I was asked to talk to some people the other day about Software + Services and what it meant. For...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 12/09/2008

Direct Connect - kick out your gnarly ol'VPN!

I blogged some time ago about the "Shrinking Enterprise" and wouldn't it be neat if we could do away...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 12/09/2008

Sustainability from Datacentre to cloud

Here's a copy of the deck I presented at the Architect Forum in Bradford yesterday. Great event with...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 12/04/2008

Green, Azure and Oslo - implications for architects

Me and a couple of colleagues are talking at an great Architect event in Bradford next 3rd December...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 11/25/2008

Relationships, the xbox and birthdays

Over at Microsoft SAF this week in San Francisco and among many great conversations was one I had...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 11/20/2008

IASA UK Meeting: Mapping the Architecture of Applications

The UK IASA Chapter is pleased to announce the next UK meeting will be sponsored by SCL and Lattix:...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 10/02/2008

Sustainable IT: From datacentre to cloud

Just realised I'm speaking next week at the QCON in Finance Exchange on the 8th October:)!

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 10/02/2008

Windows on EC2

Great announcement yesterday from Amazon that from this autumn you'll be able to host Windows and...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 10/02/2008

Sustainability @ Microsoft

Deck I recently used at the HP Innovating for a sustainable future event last week.Full of fun...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 10/01/2008

More news on Oslo

If you can't wait for the PDC ( or aren't planning on going) then these should help ... Microsoft's...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 09/11/2008

Microsoft joins OMG

Probably old news to many but I am amazed it hasn't raised more of a buzz so far I for one am really...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 09/11/2008

SaaS as a Disruptive Technology?

At long last I've finally got the report I produced with Dr Steve Moxey of Manchester Business...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 08/16/2008

Social networks and saving the planet

I got the following link to Obama's campaign from a friend over the weekend and while I am not sure...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 06/23/2008

Growth in ‘green’ agenda

Thought it worth sharing the following data from a recent study I conducted with Freeform Dynamics....

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 05/12/2008

Architect Insight Slides now available ...

if you missed the event last week you can still get to see some of the content here! We filmed some...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 05/07/2008

Socitm have a new president

It was great to meet up with Richard Steel, CIO of Newham City Council at the Architect Insight...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 05/01/2008

The shrinking Enterprise

For the majority of my time I work away from the main Microsoft office and the one thing that really...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 03/06/2008

SQLServer in the Cloud?

** URLs fixed** Yesterday at MIX we announced SQL Server Data Services which is a set of data...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 03/06/2008

UK Services Revolution Architect Forum

We held a great forum in the UK last week on the future of software and services and finally I have...

Author: Matt Deacon Date: 02/27/2008

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