Architects Rule!
Community blog for architects in the Belgium and Luxembourg region moderated by Bart Vande Ghinste, Enterprise Architect for Microsoft Belgium and Luxembourg.
Cloud or On-Premise: Which is more secure?
An interesting article based upon facts when it comes to cloud security versus on premise security...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 10/19/2010
The Role of the Software Architect in Applications and Systems Development
As mentioned in a previous post, Software Architects are recognized as one of the best positions in...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 10/18/2010
Architects Are Number 1!
CNN Money together with Payscale.com has conducted a study within the Unites States of the different...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 10/15/2010
Using the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse with PHP
The Interoperability Team at Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update to the Windows...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 10/13/2010
Belgian SQL Server Day 2010
For the third year in a row the Belgian SQL Server User Group (SQLUG.BE vzw), Microsoft and our...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 10/12/2010
Nick Malik: Enterprise Strategic Architecture in Product Development
For the enterprise architects amongst us. Is EA valuable for deciding what products or services a...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 10/06/2010
Burton Group: Managing Network Performance of Cloud-Based Applications
An interesting article from the Burton Group, when it comes to cloud providers. The article states...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 10/05/2010
Facebook - More Details on Today's Outage
Early today Facebook was down or unreachable for many of you for approximately 2.5 hours. This is...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 10/01/2010
Burton Group: The Business Value of ITIL
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is supposed to “add value” to the business. When IT “does all...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 09/30/2010
Nielsen: Bing Passes Yahoo To Become #2 Search Engine
According to Nielsen data out this morning Microsoft’s Bing has passed Yahoo to become the number...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 09/29/2010
ARCast.TV - Developing Silverlight Applications for SharePoint 2010
In this interview, Bob German, Technology Architect at Microsoft’s Boston MTC, shares his passion of...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 09/17/2010
Putting sites at the center of the browsing experience, using the whole PC: IE9 Beta Available for Download
Our approach to building a faster web browsing platform, as seen in the Platform Previews, involves...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 09/16/2010
New AppFabric Architecture Guide Available
Just released the Windows Server AppFabric Architecture Guide:...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 09/15/2010
Giz Explains: Why Everything Wireless is 2.4GHz
You live your life at 2.4GHz. Your router, your cordless phone, your Bluetooth earpiece, your baby...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 09/14/2010
ARCast.TV - David Aiken on Azure Architecture Patterns
David Aiken is a Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure. David is responsible for:...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 09/09/2010
Redefining The ‘Now’
A recent video interview with Nova Spivack, co-founder of LiveMatrix, discusses the notion of how...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 09/08/2010
John Zachman is Dead, Long Live John Zachman
An interesting blog post by a Gartner Analyst on the future of the Zachman along with some...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 09/07/2010
Are routerless datacenters in Microsoft's future?
Microsoft Research is exploring a new way to connect servers directly to other servers, without the...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 09/06/2010
Seven Principles for Selecting Software Packages
Around the mid-1950s, in the early years of commercial use of computers, all software systems were...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 09/01/2010
Introductory Special to the Windows Azure Platform
The Windows Azure platform is a flexible cloud computing platform that lets you focus on solving...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/31/2010
A brief report on working smarter with Agile software development
Agile software development methods have proven to be a substantial catalyst for improvements in...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/30/2010
For the Class of 2014, No E-Mail or Wristwatches
Every year the administrators at Wisconsin’s Beloit College put together a list of information...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/26/2010
ARCast.TV - David Chappell on Effective IT Innovation
David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates based in San Francisco, California. Through...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/26/2010
Juval is visiting VISUG once again on Thursday, October 14, 2010
The software industry is in a deep crisis. Projects suffer from low quality; schedule slips and cost...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/25/2010
Summer Campaign: Explore and dive into the Windows Azure Platform Interoperability Journey
Summer is here and for the most of us this is the time to take that well-deserved rest and to stand...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/25/2010
Relationship Management at the Operational Level in Outsourcing
Research suggests that achievement of a successful outsourcing relationship requires a tremendous...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/24/2010
The Web is Dead, Long live the Internet
Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/23/2010
McKinsey: Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch
Advancing technologies and their swift adoption are upending traditional business models. Senior...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/22/2010
Intelligent Enterprise Architecture
Stakeholders in business and information technology (IT) enterprises are faced with challenges that...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/13/2010
Patent Issued for IT Simplification to Roger Sessions
ObjectWatch Earns Patent for Minimizing the Complexity of Large IT Systems Chappell Hill, Texas -...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/12/2010
IT Portfolio Management Prioritization and Execution Planning
Aligning Portfolio Establishment Activities to Business Drivers Is Key to Gaining Buy-in and...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/11/2010
Summer Campaign: Take an Architecture diving flight with the Microsoft Cloud Patterns and Practices
Summer is here and for the most of us this is the time to take that well-deserved rest and to stand...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/10/2010
A behind-the-scenes look at designing the new Hotmail: part one
What we set out to accomplish Talking to customers gives us great ideas about how to make Hotmail...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/06/2010
ARCast.TV - SharePoint Deployment to Microsoft BPOS Cloud
What do you need to know as you plan to design and deploy SharePoint solutions to Microsoft BPOS...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/05/2010
Save the RFP! Why tossing the RFP is the worst thing you can do
Most of us have seen the fruits of a vendor relationship gone rotten. Perhaps it’s that surly...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 08/01/2010
Team Software Process (TSP) Body of Knowledge (BOK)
The Team Software Process Body of Knowledge (TSP BOK) was drafted to define the fundamental...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/31/2010
ExecutiveBrief Software Development Trends Survey Indicates Promising Business Environment for 2010
A recent ExecutiveBrief Software Development Trends Survey of more than 500 senior-level business...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/30/2010
HTML5’s a Game-Changer for Web Apps
HTML5 is a complex specification that’s being completed in stages. While it’s not expected to be...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/29/2010
16 Enterprise Architecture Strategies Learned The Hard Way
We’ve been spending time thinking through the differences in implementing new or improving existing...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/28/2010
Where do you draw the lines between business and IT ownership of data and information?
I get many questions on this subject and it often turns into almost a religious debate. Let's throw...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/27/2010
The 50 smartest people in tech
What constitutes tech savvy today? An alchemy of intellect, ambition, and that uncanny ability to...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/26/2010