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How to Calculate and Design IT Service Availability

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Architecture Techniques Image by the author from Canva Pro A common problem we do not deal with the attention it deserves is the proper specification, design and estimation of IT services and systems availability. The result is the shockingly high number of outages of web portals, mobile applications, and many business support systems not exposed…

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How to Merge the IT Systems of Two Companies Efficiently in an M&A Situation: A Primer

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Enterprise Architecture Techniques Image by the author from Canva Pro I was involved in a company acquisition as an integration architect and a merger of two large telecoms as an enterprise architect. They were among the most exciting and challenging IT architecture engagements of my career.… Read the rest

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How to Assess the Security Maturity of an Enterprise (an EA’s PoV)

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Architecture Essays Image by the author from Canva Pro I was asked recently by the head of a startup that’s providing security analytics to a large company how it could assess where there were gaps. It seemed lost in the various domains, actors, data repositories, applications, and infrastructure.… Read the rest

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Why Architecture Abhors Heroes

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The craft, properly applied, prevents drama. Robert McCall – Vision of Utopia Architecture puts compatible components together to deliver valuable functions. It aims to do this with the highest possible quality, at the lowest possible long-term cost. An expert architect will avoid predictable issues and predict unavoidable ones from experience.… Read the rest

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How Cloud Satellite and Edge Application Manager are a powerful combination for many companies

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Free image from pexels.com An elegant architecture to merge the Cloud and the Internet-of-Everything. For many large and old enterprises, there is no getting away imminently from private data centres. They are adopting public cloud, yet they need to run core workloads that cannot be easily migrated to a public cloud.… Read the rest

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How to Become an Enterprise Architect in 4 Stages

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An 8m podcast on the recommended route, with the transcript. Image made by the author https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7wbq6q/HowToBecomeAnEnterpriseArchitect.mp3 Podcast Transcript Do you want to become an Enterprise Architect? This episode is about how you can, wherever you may be in your Information Technology career today.… Read the rest

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A Technique for Agile Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Planning

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An EA technique. There are three reasons an organisation adopts Enterprise Architecture or makes the best use of it for transformations: Expansion â€” When an organisation needs to scale up significantly, Enterprise Architecture ensures it will happen smoothly, quickly, and cost-effectively. Diversification â€” A company may diversify its products or services organically or by acquiring or merging…

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The 3 Most Powerful Architecture Decisions for Striking Results

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Power your way to the crucial answers for your solution. Free image courtesy pexels.com [I am experimenting with what I call an ‘enhanced’ Podcast. The audio is accompanied by visuals and the complete transcript (below). So the reader can listen, watch, or read as convenient.]… Read the rest

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How to Draw Epic IT Architecture Diagrams

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Practical and consistent conventions from my experience Free image from Wikimedia Commons Architecture is a discipline. It is also a device that assists in thinking and communication. As the latter, architecture deals with the static and dynamic structure of an overall system through models constructed of defined components, their external features and relationships.… Read the rest

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