Sometime back [circa 2004] I had written a paper on the above topic the link is attached. It is more for my benefit than anyone else, such that I can find the file quickly :-). Any comments welcome.
Experiences in the life of an Digital Leader, navigating through ups and downs of technology landscape. These are my personal thoughts and do not reflect the views of my employer.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
Business Architecture Kick Start
Ever wanted to get a quick overview of business functions in an organisation SAP have done a great job with their Business Maps; worth checking out http://www.sap.com/solutions/businessmaps/index.epx
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Service Oriented Network Architecture (SONA)
Not that we did not have enough acronyms to confuse us CISCO goes ahead and creates another one. I was doing some background research on an article published by the CIO magazine "The Rise of Service-Oriented IT and the Birth of Infrastructure as a Service", when I came across SONA. Quick search on CISCO website showed standard marketing hype and nothing more CISCO SONA Stuff . What I was looking for was some sort of reference architecture on how CISCO saw all this working. I like the concept just that so far it appears like a half baked stuff created by marketing.
From a concept point of view if the network can become application aware, for example in a branch office if the link goes down the network can cache till head office comeback on line and things like that will be a big boost for SOA as application then don't have to worry about implementation of reliable messaging and so on.
If anyone has more info on SONA or Infrastructure as a Service I would be really happy to hear it.