Saturday, January 13, 2018

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At Trend Micro's Sales Kick-Off in Vancouver on January 9, I participated in a panel on Industry Futures with Greg Young and Vicram Phat...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Daddy, What Does an Enterprise Architect do?

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I am an Enterprise Architect. I help companies migrate data centers. That can mean moving from one city to another, or it can mean upgradi...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Begin Again, starring Mark Ruffalo and Kiera Knightley, written and directed by John Carney

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First, a confession: I didn’t know that Kiera Knightley could sing. She can. And, I didn’t know that Adam Levine could act. He can.  ...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

How Fast Does Water Freeze?

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Recently there have been some comments on Facebook and elsewhere explaining why hot water freezes more rapidly than cold water. Since...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Parables for Architects: Untangling Requirements

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The business user comes to you and says, “I need you to transport something from Poland to New York.” You ask, what is it?   “It’s wor...
Friday, June 7, 2013

Time to Prune those Processes

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Anyone who has worked in IT for five years or more knows the truth of the statement: “If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.” Wh...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

The Economic Failure of Public Cloud

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The public cloud business will face severe economic challenges in 2014 and 2015, as the business model collapses. Three converging trends ...
Monday, February 13, 2012

On the Use, and Misuse, of Software Test Metrics

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“You will manage what you measure” – Fredrick W. Taylor Testing verifies that a thing conforms to its requirements. A metric is a mea...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Beyond Risk Quantification

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For too many years information security professionals have chased a mirage: the notion that risk can be quantified. It can not. The core pro...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

The Coming Data Center Singularity: How Fabric Computing Must Evolve

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Summary: The next generation in data center structure will be fabric-based computing, but the fabric will be two full steps beyond tod...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The Software Product Lifecycle

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Traditional software development methodologies end when the product is turned over to operations. Once over that wall, the product is treat...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

The Blanchard Bone and the Big Bang of Consciousness

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Found at a cave in southwestern France, the Blanchard Bone is a curious artifact. It appears to be between 25,000 and 32,000 years old. It ...