Taking the Data Center to Sea
A interesting post from Michael Bullock talks about Google’s new patient approach to put data centers on ships. This was also covered in...
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Mike Walker
Jan 28, 20091 min read
Reducing the Cost of IT
I ran across a good post by Ed Carroll called "Reducing the Cost of Engineering/IT" on the CIO forums. He outlines 4 Areas to Reduce...
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Mike Walker
Jan 26, 20091 min read
Two New Walker's Join the World
I am excited to announce a new Microsoft employee product, two new Walker's. On Thursday January 22nd the proud mom and dad (me)...
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Mike Walker
Jan 21, 20091 min read
Forrester: Leadership in IT Planning and EA Tools Report
If you would like a free version of the report from Forrester Troux is giving away a limited number of copies. See the details below from...
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Mike Walker
Jan 21, 20091 min read
The Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (EACOE)
There is a lot of EA events happening in the next few weeks. The Open Group is having an event that looks to be the most significant in...
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Mike Walker
Jan 20, 20091 min read
Leadership Qualities of an Enterprise Solution Architect
Gabriel Morgan really hit the ball out of the park with his post on Enterprise Solution Architects and Leadership. He did a great job of...
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Mike Walker
Jan 20, 20091 min read
Microsoft's Generation 4 Data Center Vision - the Architects' Perspective
I ran across an interesting post and interview on the MS Data Center Blog on the infrastructure architecture aspects of the new Microsoft...
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Mike Walker
Jan 20, 20091 min read
Presentations Uploaded
As followers of my blog know, I do many speaking engagements. Often times I get requests for those decks from the conference or event....
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Mike Walker
Jan 17, 20093 min read
Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PeaF)
Another EA framework player emerges in 2009, the Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PeaF). I did skim and let me stress that I...
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Mike Walker
Jan 15, 20091 min read
Azure CTP Released
In this release both the Windows Azure Tools & the SDK was updated Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Windows Azure SDK...
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Mike Walker
Jan 14, 20092 min read
Facebook Shakes Things Up
Facebook is the hot new platform to integrate to these days. Yes, I said platform… Facebook isn’t just a MySpace.com clone, but another...
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Mike Walker
Jan 6, 20093 min read
Is Product Architecture the same as Solution Architecture? NO!
I had an interesting e-mail thread with some folks here at Microsoft talking about delivering content for architects and thought I would...
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Mike Walker
Nov 6, 20081 min read
John Doerr gives advice on Economy and advice on first Federal CTO
John Doerr at Web 2.0 Summit - (Credit: CNET Networks / Josh Lowensohn) For those who are concerned about what the economic crisis means...
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Mike Walker
Oct 29, 20081 min read
Ray Ozzie's Azure Keynote Overview
In case you missed it, you can see a clip of Ray Ozzie giving an overview of Azure. If you want more recorded sessions you can see all...
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Mike Walker
Oct 28, 20082 min read
Oslo Roundup
I have talked a little bit about Oslo in the past (Oslo Sneak Peak) but not too much given the launch at PDC. At the conference the...
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Mike Walker
Oct 28, 20082 min read
Office Web Applications
There hasn't been a shortage of announcements this year at PDC. The next big one besides Windows 7 is the new "Office Web Applications"...
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Mike Walker
Oct 27, 20082 min read
Microsoft Azure Services Platform
Another announcement at PDC today from Ray Ozzie was the Azure Services Platform. This is an Internet-scale cloud services platform...
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Mike Walker
Oct 27, 20084 min read
Hacking an Election, Really?
Watching the news last week and over the weekend it is almost humorous to see the spin going on about the voting system issues (Sequioa...
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Mike Walker
Oct 22, 20081 min read
Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference 2009
The annual Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference 2009 continues again this year with some really exciting features for three days...
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Mike Walker
Oct 22, 20081 min read
New "Real World" SOA Site
Today was the launch of that the new "Real World SOA happens {here}” site. This is one of the first Silverlight 2.0 applications on...
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