Jeffrey Blake - Web+Cloud+Strategy05/11/2011
Cloud Decisions
• Evolution rather than replacement.
The private cloud can evolve from existing virtualized infrastructure, enabling the transition to cloud computing without a complete and disruptive infrastructure overhaul.
• Security and compliance.
With a private cloud, data is retained within the enterprise, behind the corporate firewall, where IT can exercise full control over security, privacy, and regulatory compliance. With public clouds, enterprise data is housed in external data centers—and may move from location to location, without IT’s knowledge or consent. The dynamic movement of data in a public cloud may also present compliance challenges with local regulations.
• Service level agreements (SLAs).
Keeping applications in-house can help IT continue to meet SLAs deining performance, availability, and other critical business requirements. Some external providers may not be able to furnish the same level of service.
• Cost.
A large enterprise private cloud can provide economies of scale, resulting in total cost of ownership (TCO) that is competitive with or lower than public clouds. Intel IT, for example, found that services can be hosted internally at equal or lower TCO than hosting them externally.
• Building expertise.
Architecting a private cloud enables IT organizations to develop a knowledge base that can be applied to public clouds in the future. When creating the private cloud, IT will need to develop detailed application and data inventories, and gain key skills such as managing cloud SLAs. This experience will help build effective relationships with public cloud providers, enabling IT organizations to assess whether they meet enterprise requirements
(excerpt from http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/cio-agenda-paper-vmware.pdf)
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7 Primary Business Drivers for Social Media
- Enhance branding and awareness
- Protect reputation
- Extend public relations
- Build community or loyalty
- Extend customer service
- Facilitate research and development
- Drive sales or leads
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Social Network Users’ Bill of Rights
1.Honesty: We will honor our privacy policy and terms of service.2. Clarity: We will make sure that our policies, terms of service, and settings are easy to find and understand.
3. Freedom of speech: We will not delete or modify user data without a clear policy and justification.
4. Empowerment : We will support assistive technologies and universal accessibility.
5. Self-protection: We will support privacy-enhancing technologies.
6. Data minimization: We will minimize the information users are required to provide and share with others.
7. Control: We will work toward enabling users to own and control their data and won’t facilitate sharing their data unless they agree first.
8. Predictability: We will obtain the prior consent of users before significantly changing who can see their data.
9. Data portability: We will make it easy for users to obtain a copy of their data.
10. Protection: We will treat user data as securely as our own confidential data unless they choose to share these data, and notify them if these data are compromised.
11. Right to know: We will show users how we are using their data and allow them to see who and what has access to their data.
12. Right to self-define: We will allow users to create more than one identity and use pseudonyms. We will not link them without their permission.
13. Right to appeal: We will allow users to appeal punitive actions.
14. Right to withdraw: We will allow users to delete their accounts and remove their data.
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The 5 Laws of Engagement
Law 1: We seek comfort in relationships: Surround us with community, which we’ve seen success with like Facebook, Twitter and 4chan. Most interestingly is PostSecret, an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.
Law 2: We all have something to say. So give us tools to express ourselves. Tools include comments, notes, and all the fun things Facebook has given us with Timeline, etc.
Law 3: We need to feel important. Use rewards to make us feel special. How do you make people feel special? One way is through exclusivity like Gilt Group. One way is through badges on Foursquare.
Law 4: We are hypnotized by beauty. Give us something beautiful to look out. Flipboard puts the image first. Instagram is a series of beautiful images within a community.
Law 5: We are captivated by the unknown. So target our curiosity. Foursquare does this with points! Pinterest does with page after page of constant intrigue.
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09/09/2011
Anne Boe’s Keys to Successful Networking
- Clarify your career goals.
- Develop long-term win-win relationships.
- Nurture your network daily.
- Be actively involved in your community.
- Meet as many people as you can.
- Take your business cards everywhere.
- Make friends, even when you don’t need them.
- Act like a host, not a guest.
- Become an interested person.
- Develop your listening skills.
- Trust your intuition.
- Take people risks.
- Master the art of small talk.
- Work smarter, not harder.
- Value yourself and your life.
- Take action daily towards your goals.
- Become your own energy manager.
- Learn to ask for what you want.
- Give thanks for what you have.
- Acknowledge your skills and talents.
- Say “Thank you. “
- Become an inverse paranoid - decide the world is conspiring for you.
- Determine your priorities - protect your energy.
- Learn to want what you have.
- Know that there are more side doors in the world than there are front doors.
[Source: Anne Boe]
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08/09/2011
Creating an IT Strategy - Management by Maxim
I have heard that 90% of all businesses do not have a written Business Strategy. Its in their heads - but as an Enterprise Architect how do you extract it so that you can create a viable IT Strategy? Often times CxOs don’t have time to have a strategic dialogue. One way to solve this problem is to employ the “Maxim Process”
The Maxim Process is described by Broadbent and Kitzis in [Broadbent+05] as a pragmatic way to extract enough information for a good enough IT strategy while not investing more than a day’s workshop with senior management. The CIO will organize a work-‐ shop with CxOs, which will lead to documenting 2 kinds of so-‐called Maxims:
- Business Maxims
- And as a result IT Maxims
Maxims are a few concise principles that are used to document the strategic direction of an enterprise. A Maxim workshop will usually not produce more than around 5 business maxims. For each of those, management will derive 4-‐5 maxims for the IT function that will help to support them.
A typical Maxim Workshop will be split up into two parts:
- Part 1: Finding the Business Maxims,
- Part 2: Deriving the IT Maxims
An external facilitator should moderate the workshop day and process.
To give examples imagine an old economy financial service provider like a big insurance company that runs more than one brand name on the market. For such an enterprise you could find the following business maxim:
- Create synergies in back office and service functions wherever brand identity is not compromised
IT maxims that could be deducted from such a business strategy could be:
- Define standard architectures and platforms used by all of the group’s companies in order to leverage synergies and to reduce IT cost
- Harmonize the IT application systems for the group’s companies wherever there is a business case for this.
SOURCE: TOGAF9 QuickStart Guide 2009
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26/08/2011
What Does an Enterprise Architect Do ?
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21/07/2011
Kim Cameron’s 7 Laws of Identity
1. User Control and Consent:Digital identity systems must only reveal information identifying a user with the user’s consent.
2. Limited Disclosure for Limited Use
The solution which discloses the least identifying information and best limits its use is the most stable, long-term solutio.
The Law of Fewest Parties
Digital identity systems must limit disclosure of identifying information to parties having a necessary and justifiable place in a given identity relationship.
4. Directed Identity
A universal identity metasystem must support both “omnidirectional” identifiers for use by public entities and “unidirectional” identifiers for private entities, thus facilitating discovery while preventing unnecessary release of correlation handles.
5. Pluralism of Operators and Technologies:
A universal identity metasystem must channel and enable the interworking of multiple identity technologies run by multiple identity providers.
6. Human Integration:
A unifying identity metasystem must define the human user as a component integrated through protected and unambiguous human-machine communications.
7. Consistent Experience Across Contexts:
A unifying identity metasystem must provide a simple consistent experience while enabling separation of contexts through multiple operators and technologies.
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16/07/2011
Ten Topics a Venture Capitalist Cares About
2. Your solution
3. Business model
4. Underlying magic/technology
5. Marketing and sales
6. Competition
7. Team
8. Projections and milestones
9. Status and timeline
10. Summary and call to action
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01/06/2011
Five Ways to Organize Information
In his book Information Anxiety, Richard Saul Wurman notes that there are five basic ways to organize information:
- Alphabet: The organizing principle used by dictionaries and telephone books.
- Category: The segmentation of things by attribute or functionality, such as color (shirts) or capabilities (product line).
- Continuum: Similar to category, but rather than using discrete buckets, this uses a range of values that are expressed in numbers or units. Examples of these magnitude measures include from small to large or from light to heavy. A list of products ordered by price would be a continuum; at the same time, the products could be categorized as inexpensive, moderate, or expensive.
- Location: Physical location — in geography, points on a map; in anatomy, muscle groups; in an equipment manual, an exploded drawing.
- Time: A timeline or a set of eras, useful when describing product or organizational history.
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