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My Blog has Moved
location = "https://www.MikeTheArchitect.com"; I just moved my blog to www.MikeTheArchitect.com . The...
Date: 03/20/2009
Finally Made it to the Top
A teammate and I were chatting about search ranking and I was telling him about how I am battling it...
Date: 03/12/2009
Microsoft Green Computing Commitment
There has been some really great announcements coming from Microsoft in terms of Green IT and...
Date: 03/11/2009
Mapping Current State Architectures across the Enterprise
All the time I get the questions about how to do current state architecture or “as-is” architecture...
Date: 03/11/2009
The Value of Wisdom
As you can see I am playing a bit of catch up as TED has been over for awhile. Barry Schwartz makes...
Date: 03/03/2009
Infosys' Enterprise Architecture Survey 2008 - 2009
Last week Sohel Aziz’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) team at Infosys released there annual EA survey...
Date: 02/24/2009
Massive P&P Compile of Resources for Architects
As some of you may know I aided with the Application Architecture Guide 2.0 materials which will...
Date: 02/18/2009
Extended Enterprise Architecture Framework (E2AF) Template
Mike Kavis posted a high level cheat sheet for the Extended Enterprise Architecture Framework (E2AF)...
Date: 02/09/2009
10 Misperceptions and challenges of Model Driven Development
Ran across an interesting post from Johan den Haan in which he shares his thoughts on the Top Ten...
Date: 02/06/2009
Pragmatic Approach to Describing Solution Architectures
I just published a new article on the Microsoft Enterprise Architecture Center entitled, A Pragmatic...
Date: 02/04/2009
TOGAF 9 Release and Impressions
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of talking with Allen Brown, president of the Open Group regarding...
Date: 02/02/2009
Calgary Offering 1 Day EA Course
The Canadian IT Architecture Connection blog posted about a one day EA course that may be...
Date: 01/29/2009
Taking the Data Center to Sea
A interesting post from Michael Bullock talks about Google’s new patient approach to put data...
Date: 01/29/2009
Reducing the Cost of IT
I ran across a good post by Ed Carroll called "Reducing the Cost of Engineering/IT" on the CIO...
Date: 01/28/2009
Two New Walker's Join the World
I am excited to announce a new Microsoft employee product, two new Walker's. On Thursday January...
Date: 01/26/2009
Forrester: Leadership in IT Planning and EA Tools Report
If you would like a free version of the report from Forrester Troux is giving away a limited number...
Date: 01/21/2009
The Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (EACOE)
There is a lot of EA events happening in the next few weeks. The Open Group is having an event that...
Date: 01/21/2009
Microsoft's Generation 4 Data Center Vision - the Architects' Perspective
I ran across an interesting post and interview on the MS Data Center Blog on the infrastructure...
Date: 01/20/2009
Presentations Uploaded
As followers of my blog know, I do many speaking engagements. Often times I get requests for those...
Date: 01/20/2009
Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PeaF)
Another EA framework player emerges in 2009, the Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PeaF)....
Date: 01/18/2009
Is Product Architecture the same as Solution Architecture? NO!
1I6 had an interesting e-mail thread with some folks here at Microsoft talking about delivering...
Date: 01/06/2009
John Doerr gives advice on Economy and advice on first Federal CTO
John Doerr at Web 2.0 Summit - (Credit: CNET Networks / Josh Lowensohn) For those who are concerned...
Date: 11/06/2008
Distributed Agile Development Patterns & Practices Guide
Microsoft Patterns and Practices (P&P) has released set of guidance today, Distributed Agile...
Date: 10/30/2008
Just Released: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide
Microsoft patterns & practices announced today the latest addition to the p&p library of...
Date: 10/30/2008
Ray Ozzie's Azure Keynote Overview
In case you missed it, you can see a clip of Ray Ozzie giving an overview of Azure. If you want more...
Date: 10/29/2008
Oslo Roundup
I have talked a little bit about Oslo in the past (Oslo Sneak Peak) but not too much given the...
Date: 10/29/2008
Office Web Applications
There hasn't been a shortage of announcements this year at PDC. The next big one besides Windows 7...
Date: 10/28/2008
Microsoft Azure Services Platform
Another announcement at PDC today from Ray Ozzie was the Azure Services Platform. This is an...
Date: 10/27/2008
Windows Live ID now supports OpenID Identity Framework
It looks like the Windows Live product teams are giving some love to OpenID with committed support...
Date: 10/27/2008
Hacking an Election, Really?
Watching the news last week and over the weekend it is almost humorous to see the spin going on...
Date: 10/27/2008
Interview with GM for the Microsoft Cloud Services Data Center
This is a great web cast for all those infrastructure architects out there wondering what happens...
Date: 10/27/2008
Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference 2009
The annual Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference 2009 continues again this year with some...
Date: 10/22/2008
New "Real World" SOA Site
Today was the launch of that the new "Real World SOA happens {here}” site. This is one of...
Date: 10/22/2008
The Numbers Behind Organizational Change
In a fairly recent whitepaper from IBM, global services did a worldwide survey across various roles...
Date: 10/17/2008
IEEE on Software Architecture Podcast
There is a new architecture podcast out from IEEE that will be hosted by Grady Booch. If you do not...
Date: 10/15/2008
Silverlight 2.0 Released
You can download Silverlight 2 from here. To learn more , visit...
Date: 10/14/2008
Architecture Journal 17 - Distributed Computing
Hot off the press the new Architecture Journal 17. The theme of this journal issue is Distributed...
Date: 10/13/2008
Where the US Candidates Stand on Five Technology Issues
CIO.com wrote an insightful article summarizing the US Presidential Candidates stance on technology...
Date: 10/09/2008
Want more Oslo... Here's a sneak peek
We are less than T-3 weeks to PDC and there will be a lot more details on the new Oslo initiative....
Date: 10/09/2008
SOA Software Announces Expanded SOA Governance for Microsoft .NET Framework
SOA Software today released an expanded version of it's popular SOA governance suite for a series of...
Date: 10/07/2008
Microsoft will soon release 'Windows Cloud' OS
This is going to be a relatively short post. Mostly just link love to Computer World. It's a high...
Date: 10/02/2008
Gartner EA Summit - Day 2
As for the second day of coverage of the EA summit I attended less sessions and did more talking...
Date: 09/29/2008
ArchiMate - The Emerging Architecture Modeling Standard?
At the Gartner EA Summit in London it seemed like there was quite a bit of talk on the solution...
Date: 09/26/2008
Gartner EA Summit - Day 1
So I figured since I already started a thread on the Gartner keynote (Gartner EA Summit - Emergence...
Date: 09/24/2008
Gartner EA Summit - Emergence Enterprise Architecture Keynote
I wanted to give some feedback on some new thoughts from Gartner in their keynote on Emergence...
Date: 09/23/2008