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Events, Events Events!

So looking through my calendar for the next couple of weeks I have a ton of presentations to give and events to attend. First of all tomorrow at 2pm BST I am giving my Integration and Interop presentation, latest version, as a webcast which should be Read More...
Posted Monday, April 04, 2005 4:11 AM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Ivory Tower Architects

I read this really interesting article about architects in the CIO magazine http://www.cio.com/archive/030105/blueprint.html I also had a long discussion with the CIO of a major investment bank in the city about his perception of architecture. It is pretty Read More...
Posted Friday, April 01, 2005 7:28 AM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments
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IT Practitioners Architecture Conference

I noticed an interesting conference by The Open Group on architecture (the IT Practitioners Architecture Conference ) on the 25-27 th April in Dublin. It says that they will be focusing on the role of the IT Architect and the IT Architecture as a profession Read More...
Posted Friday, April 01, 2005 7:05 AM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments
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Software Factories

There is an interesting discussion with Steve Cook on software factories in this month’s DNJ online. I understood most of it, the bit I didn’t get was about how patterns are a modeless software factory. I have always been puzzled about the relationship Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:45 AM by Michael Platt | 5 Comments
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Security Architecture Discussions

The day before yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited to a Security discussion with some very senior security people in the UK . I introduced myself as an architect which led to some fairly “interesting” views of the role of the architect. There was Read More...
Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 12:21 PM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments
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Patterns and Practices Summit

Keith Pleas et al are running another patterns and practises summit this year in both the US and in Oslo following on from the very successful events last year. They have very kindly asked me to keynote again however I am doing the UK technet Roadshow Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:56 AM by Michael Platt | (Comments Off)
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Interop Technet event post mortem

So last Thursday I did my first Technet evening interop event based on Simon Guests Interop slides . It was a small and select audience and went reasonably well (I hardly ever feel things go very well). As always I was worried about not enough material Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:45 AM by Michael Platt | (Comments Off)
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Organsational Mapping Technologies

A month or so ago I blogged about an area of infrastructure architecture I feel is very important; mapping of organisations to infrastructure . The snag is that you have to understand a lot about both the organisation and the infrastructure support. Whilst Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:47 PM by Michael Platt | (Comments Off)
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Microsoft to Buy Groove

WOW! Microsoft are buying Groove: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/mar05/03-10GrooveQA.asp and http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+buy+Groove+Networks/2100-1014_3-5608063.html?part=rss&tag=5606366&subj=news I have used Groove in the Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:38 PM by Michael Platt | (Comments Off)
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REST vs SOA or HTTP vs SOAP?

There has been a huge amount of controversy over the whole REST vs SOA debate which seems to have settled down to the conclusion that REST is base for outside the firewall and SOA inside (whilst I realise this would be violently disputed by both camps Read More...
Posted Monday, March 07, 2005 10:08 AM by Michael Platt | 2 Comments
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Helicopters and Architects

A funny story I have heard many times is that of a helicopter pilot who was lost in the fog. He saw an office block in the gloom and a person at the window. He shouted out “Where am I?” and the person in the office block shouted back “In a helicopter”. Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 05, 2005 5:41 PM by Michael Platt | 3 Comments
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Data or entity Services

One of the biggest problems I have with designing SOA systems is the area of data services or entity services as Microsoft calls them. The snag is that in many cases the data has to used by multiple services and so you really want to share the data between Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 05, 2005 3:50 PM by Michael Platt | 7 Comments
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Interoperability Architecture MS Product support

Mapping the levels of the Interoperability architecture to MS products: Mapping the levels of the Interoperability architecture to MS products: HIS SFU SFN SQLS Win NET WS* MIIS MOM Network X X X X Directory X X X X Security X X X X X File and Print X Read More...
Posted Friday, March 04, 2005 2:59 PM by Michael Platt | (Comments Off)
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Interoperability Architecture

The areas of infrastructure that we need to understand interoperability around are: Network 1. Networks (Protocols, DNS / Bind, Wireless) 2. Directory (LDAP, AD, iplanet, NDS, edirectory) 3. Security (Standards, Kerberos, Certificates, SSO, IRM, Identity, Read More...
Posted Friday, March 04, 2005 1:56 PM by Michael Platt | 3 Comments
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Infrastructure layers

Following onfrom my blog yesterday I have collated all the feedback I got (Thanks!) and came up with these major levels and elements in the levels: Hardware 1. Hardware (routers, servers, client devices, wireless, storage (SANS / NAS)) Network 2. Networks Read More...
Posted Friday, March 04, 2005 12:11 PM by Michael Platt | (Comments Off)
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