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August 2005 - Posts

Gartner Real Time Infrastructure and Infrastructure Maturity Model

Back in January I went to some internal Microsoft training (called Envision) in Seattle and had the privilege to go to a session by Tom Bittman, a VP and distinguished analyst with Gartner. Now in general I am not overkeen on Gartner having looked at Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:17 PM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Infrastructure career progression.

My manager asked me a question late last night (he's very sad [:)] ) about infrastructure architects which I came up with my answer for but would like to get feedback on so I thought I would blog about it. He asked: My takeaway from interacting solutions Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:59 AM by Michael Platt | 7 Comments

Architects Journal no 5

I have just got my printed copy of the Architects journal number 5. I know it has been on the web for a while, its just that I don’t like reading articles on the monitor so I haven't got around to looking through it. The other advantage of print is that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:26 PM by Michael Platt | 3 Comments

Integration and Interoperability

Someone asked me a really good question via my blog yesterday: What is the difference between the terms interoperability and integration when it comes to software? This is something I haven't really got a good definition for and that I tend to use interchangeably, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:37 AM by Michael Platt | 2 Comments

Transparent IT

Some time back I was fortunate to sit on one of the Microsoft Architect Certification Boards with Chip Wilson from Geniant. One of the nice things about sitting on the board is that you meet some really smart architects, both in front of and on the board. Read More...
Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 10:15 AM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Service Oriented Infrastructure feedback

So I have a ton of feedback from a number of people about my SOI blog . There are a couple of key points that I think I have not been clear about: This blog is not the answer to life, the universe and everything in Infrastructure... yet :). Its a set Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 4:22 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Service Oriented Infrastructure

I've been asked to present to a major financial institution which has bought into Service Oriented Architecture in a big way. They have a number of projects underway based around web services, Service Orientation and Orchestration. They clearly have a Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:03 AM by Michael Platt | 5 Comments

Architecture, A definition

Jon Arce emailed me that in my earlier blog I should have included the IEEE standard definition of Architecture: IEEE Std 1471-2000 IEEE Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems Which defines: A system is a collection Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 16, 2005 3:50 PM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Infrastructure Architecture

As I mentioned in my last blog my new job makes me responsible for Microsoft’s strategy and guidance on Infrastructure Architecture. The first question I have to answer is what is Infrastructure Architecture, that is what is a formal definition for the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:53 AM by Michael Platt | 7 Comments

New Job

So I haven’t blogged in ages because I have taken on a new job and moved to the US which has involved a huge amount of visa / house renting / car selling and buying / moving / phone and PC reconfiguring etc activity, none of which has much place on a Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:53 AM by Michael Platt | 6 Comments
 
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