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Ent Arch Impact analysis for SharePoint/BPOS-D/Office365 Engagement

Lewis Curtis — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:56:00 GMT

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...(read more)

when architects worship the model and methodology

Lewis Curtis — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:36:39 GMT

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...(read more)

looking at 2010

Lewis Curtis — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:19:16 GMT

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, ...(read more)

Silicon Architecture will change the way we work

Lewis Curtis — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:10:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Green IT Predictions for 2009

Lewis Curtis — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:30:58 GMT

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 ·...(read more)

interviewing Michael Manos about Datacenter Leadership

Lewis Curtis — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:12:30 GMT

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...(read more)

The Trojan Horse of Server Virtualization

Lewis Curtis — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:49:14 GMT

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...(read more)

Heros will always ruin your it organization

Lewis Curtis — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:58:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Datacenter Leadership

Lewis Curtis — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:16:04 GMT

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....(read more)

Enterprise ARCHITECTURE TEAMS FINALLY RECOGNIZING THE VALUE OF infrastructure ARCHITECTURE LEADERSHIP

Lewis Curtis — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:59:24 GMT

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...(read more)

TechEd Orlando 2008 - environmentally sustainable architecture panel now we are starting to have discussions with developers. yeah.

Lewis Curtis — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:18:37 GMT

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,...(read more)

My Vacation in April: 1 solid week without my laptop in Venice...

Lewis Curtis — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:24:51 GMT

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...(read more)

Microsoft's new environment website

Lewis Curtis — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:53:33 GMT

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...(read more)

Environmental ratings and analysts

Lewis Curtis — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)

What's so different about the environmental Sustainability Movement today...

Lewis Curtis — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:02:43 GMT

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...(read more)

Seeing the industry focus on Four areas of Green IT

Lewis Curtis — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:06:20 GMT

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...(read more)

Datacenter energy consumption is rarely a operating cost issue.

Lewis Curtis — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:04:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Thinking about Eric Janszen's article: the Next Bubble

Lewis Curtis — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:35:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Working on Sustainable Architectural Best Practices

Lewis Curtis — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:46:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Green IT predictions for 2008

Lewis Curtis — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Briefly speculated for web server farms for electricity management

Lewis Curtis — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:36:00 GMT

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

new technorati profile

Lewis Curtis — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:48:00 GMT

<a href=" http://technorati.com/claim/m68uvqpah " rel="me">Technorati Profile</a>...(read more)

The Green Datacenter is an Architectural Commitment, not a product

Lewis Curtis — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:47:00 GMT

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...(read more)

starting to podcast

Lewis Curtis — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:28:00 GMT

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

Working on a Microsoft Green Datacenter Strategy at Microsoft

Lewis Curtis — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:16:00 GMT

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...(read more)