I’m participating on a good team doing the Enterprise Architecture Impact for large customer for a SharePoint/BPOs-D/Office 365 strategy.   At this point, we’re seeing some critical areas to examine current and future forecasted architectural...

In the last 4 years of IT architecture,  I’ve seen a movement to promote modeling and taxonomy discipline into the profession.    This has promoted consistency where more and more IT architects can model systems with less confusion...

The Job Market for IT Architects 2009 has been a crazy year for most of us in the industry.     Many are looking or found new jobs as annual reviews became survivalist experiences as working in fear became the new norm. Of course, ...

I've been exposed recently to some incredible developments in the silicon world. Some that I cannot mention. However, I do want to share with you an opinion about how this world will impact our world. Over the years, servers, storage and network systems...

It is that time of the year when we forecast environmental issues for the New Year. There have been some important new developments that happened in 2008. · A new U.S. Presidential Administration was elected that is passionate about the Environment ·...

At the last TechEd in Orlando.  I interviewed Michael Manos about Datacenter Leadership and energy issues for IT. Michael is leading Microsoft’s transformation into massive scale data center environments for Web 2.0 and online services. See the interview...

  Server Virtualization for commodity systems has become a pervasive answer in the enterprise datacenter for good reason: it is an opportunity to consolidate systems thereby reducing the number of servers in the datacenter, increase efficiency on...

Working in an IT organization can be challenging. There are exhausting late night emergencies and deadlines, unpredictable technical complexities as well as executive management commonly suffering from extreme ADD. As this leads to countless hours...

At TechEd Orlando,  I had an opportunity to interview Michael Manos (who is in charge of all the datacenters for Microsoft) about Leadership in the modern datacenter today. Datacenter Leadership Interview.

Forrester recently published a report: Infrastructure Architects Link Technology Strategy With Long-Term EA and Business Goals It’s a decent article.  For far too long many enterprise teams have viewed infrastructure architects as too low level...

I organized and participated on a Environmentally Sustainable Architecture panel last month.    There was some very interesting participants on the panel: moderator: George Cerbone Panelist: Michael Manos, Beth Humphreys, Kathy Malone,...

I spent a week vacation in Venice in April.   It was a beautiful place.   It was also the first time I went on vacation without my laptop (my wife's request). Loosing the connection with the Web Collective... This is more difficult...

I hope you had a good weekend.  http://www.microsoft.com/environment/ As you know,  I've been heavily involved promoting architecture best practices for sustainability.   Microsoft has established a new environmental site which has...

The demand for environmental impact information from organizations have increased significantly this last year. and for good reason. Customers, regulators, investors and partners are very concerned about carbon footprint, overall pollution and ecological...

From conference presentations, customers meetings, political activity and internal debates,  I would like to clarify how the "green" Environmental Sustainability movement is different from the seventies and early eighties. In the seventies...

As the "Green" revolution is taking hold of the IT industry,  I'm noticing four core areas of execution in the market.  Most organizations focus on one (perhaps two areas) which showcases their strengths.  However, I discovered...

From a chat with Dave O'hara today, I thought I would blog some thoughts around datacenter energy consumption and some common confusion concerning costs. Do organizations with dedicated datacenters save money when they install more efficient servers...

In Feb 2008 edition of Harpers, Eric Janszen wrote an article titled "The Next Bubble" where he descibed the wave of investment in altnerative energy as the next bubble. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/02/0081908 While I aggree, there is good probability...

I was asked to prepare architectural best practices as we help others improve. So from observing our own customers, partners as well as our own operations, here is a short initial list of 5 approaches. Take a look and feel free to provide ideas and suggestions...

Some Green IT predictions for 2008: Prediction one: 2008 is the year that more realize Green IT is not a passing fad in the industry, More will realize that Green IT is a permanent regulatory and operational reality in IT Architecture and Operations...

This might make an interesting pattern to investigate. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22266034/

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Corporate IT initiatives to reduce environmental impact and power consumption is here for the long run. Executives are allocating time, energy and money to invest in Green initiatives. Governments are allocating research, regulations and suggesting laws...

I created a podcast site to store interviews and audio discussions. at http://podcast.lewiscurtis.com

For the next couple of months, Working with a MS alum: Dave O'Hara, I'm working towards a Microsoft comprehensive Green Datacenter Strategy. It is wonderful to see so many fellow employees very supportive in this effort. We're scheduled to give an internal...