Architects Rule!
Community blog for architects in the Belgium and Luxembourg region moderated by Bart Vande Ghinste, Enterprise Architect for Microsoft Belgium and Luxembourg.
Architectural Governance by Principles
An enterprise architecture is rarely if ever successfully implemented in its entirety in a single...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/25/2010
The Role of the Developer in the New Network
The infrastructure developer/architect will be a key player in the new network Cloud and...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/24/2010
The over-reaction architecture governance anti-pattern
There are a couple of avoidable behaviors that architects sometimes adopt that generally annoy...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/23/2010
McKinsey: Enduring Ideas: The strategic control map
In this interactive presentation—one in a series of multimedia frameworks—Lowell Bryan, a director...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/21/2010
Summer Campaign: Take an Architecture diving flight with the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform
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: 07/20/2010
What are the Benefits of Virtual Private Cloud Computing Hosting?
A private cloud computing platform is a stack of network, server and storage hardware dedicated to...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/20/2010
Windows Azure Platform Appliance
Windows Azure Platform Appliance has been announced last week at the Worldwide Partner Conference....
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/19/2010
Realizing the Promise of Cloud Computing with Microsoft
Bob Muglia outlined our vision for the cloud today, at the Worldwide Partner Conference in...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/12/2010
NetworkWorld: Secrecy of cloud computing providers raises IT security risks
Despite how attractive cloud computing can sound as an outsourcing option, there's widespread...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/12/2010
Facebook Server Count: 60,000 or More
It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes a PowerPoint slide can tell the story...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/09/2010
AG Magazine: ArchiMate: Adding Value to TOGAF
The ArchiMate® enterprise architecture modeling language has been developed to provide a uniform...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/08/2010
Forrester Blog: Does Your CEO Care About Green IT? Not If You’re Stuck In The Data Center
To quote Forrester’s CEO and Founder, George Colony, during his keynote at Forrester’s IT Forum EMEA...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/07/2010
Summer Campaign: Take an Architecture diving flight with the Microsoft Cloud Continuum
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: 07/06/2010
Burton Group: Changeover to IPv6: The Deadline Approaches
The existing unallocated pool of old-style (Internet Protocol Version 4) addresses available from...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 07/05/2010
CEB: Emerging Technology Roadmap through 2013
External source: https://www.executiveboard.com/it/pdf/IEC-Roadmap-Poster-120110.pdf
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/30/2010
Delivering new features for SQL Azure Today
As of today following new features are available within SQL Azure: 1. SQL Azure Database size - We...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/28/2010
Infosec Island: Choosing Your OS is NOT a Security Control
Just a quick note on the recent Google announcement about dumping Windows for desktops in favor of...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/25/2010
Government Taps the Power of Cloud Computing
Bruce Hart is the Chief Operating Officer of Terremark Federal Group which provides government...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/24/2010
ARCast.TV - UI of the new era, designing for multiple devices
Computer screens in laptops, desktops and phones are now the targets for application developers yet...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/23/2010
A Microsoft Windows Azure primer: the basics
An excellent article about Windows Azure can be found at https://arstechnica.com. Microsoft's...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/21/2010
Cutter blog: Three Things We Should Expect of Rugged Software
Upon reading the The Rugged Software Manifesto, I decided to summarize my thoughts on what good...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/18/2010
A Handbook for Effective IT Strategic Planning: Embedding Context and Creativity in Strategy Development
IT and business leaders alike express frustration with their inability to achieve the full potential...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/17/2010
Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Updated for Silverlight 4
We have just updated the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework to synchronize with a number of...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/16/2010
ARCast.TV - A.D.A.M migrates from Google Cloud to Windows Azure
A.D.A.M. www.adam.com , a leading provider of consumer health information and benefits technology...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/15/2010
Computerworld: Certifications are no longer optional
For many years, IT management has preached standardization -- within IT and across the corporation....
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/14/2010
Microsoft: We'll be running 85 to 90 percent of our apps in the cloud this decade
Just over a month ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a memo to a few key execs inside the...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/11/2010
Microsoft passes the 10,000 customer milestone with Windows Azure
Microsoft now has more than 10,000 customers (each with an unspecified number of users) using its...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/09/2010
Windows Azure Platform Announcements at TechEd North America
Today at the TechEd North America conference Bob Muglia made several announcements about the Windows...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/08/2010
20 km of Brussels running into the cloud
The 20km of Brussels was held on the 30th May 2010, 10 Microsoft employees participated in the race...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/07/2010
ARCast.TV - Selling Pizza in the Cloud: Domino's and Windows Azure
When you're one of the busiest pizza companies in the world, how do you scale your web site to meet...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/04/2010
InfoWorld: Inside the mind of an enterprise architect
In previous columns, I've touched on the idea of tapping a Microsoft enterprise architect to help...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/03/2010
Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Released
In the continued commitment to our users - .NET enterprise developers, we are releasing a fully...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/03/2010
Cloud computing: state-of-the-art and research challenges
Abstract: Cloud computing has recently emerged as a new paradigm for hosting and delivering services...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/03/2010
SOAWorld: Why is Enterprise Architecture Dying?
Can Market Forces Redefine the Meaning of EA? Zachman wrote “This is what is killing Enterprise...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 06/01/2010
End-To-End Performance Study of Cloud Services
Cloud computing promises a number of advantages for the deployment of data-intensive applications....
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 05/31/2010
Paul Glen: Think politics aren't part of your job? Think again
In the course of consulting for and coaching IT managers, the complaints I hear most often involve...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 05/30/2010
High Availability and Disaster Recovery at ServiceU: A SQL Server 2008 Technical Case Study
An old but still relevant case study in achieving high availability with SQL Server. Achieving...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 05/29/2010
New ways we're fighting spam in Hotmail
Hotmail's fight against spam has certainly come a long way in the last five years. Over the last...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 05/28/2010
ARCast.TV - SOASTA uses Windows Azure to offer CloudTest Solutions
SOASTA based in California, the company offers both internally installed and cloud-based testing...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 05/26/2010
CIO.COM: The Path to the CIO
There’s never been a better time for putting your IT career on the CIO track. With the economy on...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 05/25/2010
Do Architects Need to Code?
In part, architecture is about enabling many people to work on a complex system, and still achieve...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 05/07/2010
PC World: Microsoft Spindex Puts New Spin on Social Networking
Microsoft's FUSE Labs--the cutting edge, innovative research group behind the recent Docs.com...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 05/07/2010
Gartner: Private Cloud Computing Plans From Conference Polls
Polls from the December 2009 Gartner Data Center Conference show that clients are concerned about...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 05/07/2010
ARCast.TV - Accenture: Enabling the Mobile Workforce with Windows Azure
When most people think of the cloud, they generally look at is as means of building and hosting...
Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 05/04/2010