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This information is presented with no specific "advocacy" in mind.   Below are links to webpages that I have found particular "hot", interesting, or controversial.  Feel free to email me if you are wondering if I have a position on any of them, but as a strong believer in making educated decisions, I know how important it is to try to keep up with the amazing information flow around us.  Sometimes I may include a brief summary of the topic.  These aren't mine so don't be surprised if an occasional link doesn't work, but hopefuly you may find some of these items useful.


 

 

Date Published
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Topic & Comments
5/18/2014 TOGAF - Wikipedia Primer on IT Architecture Over time I have developed my own set of governing principles to developing IT Architecture plans and aligning it with Business Objectives.  In 2009 when TOGAF first appeared on the event horizon for IT professionals, I was pretty amazed at how well my strategies and tools lined up with the group that was developing this approach to IT Architecture.  I don't always recommend Wikipedia, but in this case this is a very good read for those that have never explored the concepts. 
6/4/2013 Netbooks versus Tablets

For some of us the direction that this was going was pretty obvious, but there ar some interesting thoughts
Making low-end laptops smaller was a pretty easy thing to do so when "Netbooks" started showing up, none of us should have been surprised.  Tablet technology was extremely expensive comparatively and so there was a great niche for the Netbooks for highly portable small devices for many different reasons.  That said, Tablet costs are diving and functions growing and so one needs to ask some real questions about what your objectives really are in this space.
5/18/2010 Intellectual Property Primer Part 1


Intellectual Property Primer Part 2

"trak.in" is an Indian business blog covering a great deal about business opportunites in India, but in this case, represents a great summary of Intellectual Property laws in the US and internationally.
Every year companies and individuals lose millions of dollars by not having protected inventive and innovative work that they do using intellectual property laws.  I've spent many years working with patents and copyright protections with businesses that I've worked in.  Intellectual property management is highly complex and can be expensive to create full management programs for, but can pay off for you dramatically.  Strangely enough, the best simple "primer" on the topic that I have bumped into for years is represented by the two part article with links here, written by an individual in India.  These do not pretend to provide legal advice, but do give you the simple definitions that you need to get ready to ask good questions of great legal minds.
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4/12/2010

published
11/11/2009
From Baseline magazine - "Strategy Is Not Enough"  My friend, Richard Brennan recently published this article in Baseline magazine.  Rich has years of experience in Technology Strategy & and we are of a very common mindset on many topics.  Here, he outlines key reasons for and topics to, help you establish a Technology Strategy that compliments your Business plans.  See more from Rich at www.tipperarypartners.com
3/14/2010 An Introduction to Voice over IP Everybody knows something about VoIP, if for no other reason than getting tired of Vonage commercials.  Vonage is just one of many that allow you to take advantage of your network to make phone calls.  This is a great collection of summary information about the many different aspect of VoIP that may be helpful as you really do move to fully integrate voice and data in your environment.
3/13/2010 Virtualization - What does it really mean? "Virtualization".  Are you wondering what it really means?  This is a nice primer on the topic.  It is a couple years old, but is still one of the nicest, simple articulations of key aspects of the technology that will play a role in your future if it ha not already
3/12/2010 http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/opre640a/partIX.htm This is definitely demonstrative of my geeky side.  A great collection of links on Analytics and Risk assessment.  There is much here that is worth reviewing if you are into Markets Analysis, Risk and Security, or Capacity/Performance analysis.
3/10/2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer When I became very actively engaged in a Technology Strategy role several years ago; key topics involved Voice over IP and new network configurations like MPLS.   One of the observations I made to a number of folks was that "THE WORLD WILL BECOME A MUCH BIGGER COLLECTION OF PRIVATE NETWORKS".  That main thrust is, while the PSTN (for telephony) and the Internet (for data, primarily) will continue to grow; more and more entities will interconnect their own private networks with key partners, customers, and vendors to meet savings, performance, and security objectives.  This is a good discussion site to develop your thinking on this same topic.  Please feel free to contact me if you'd like to discuss a specific situation.
7/26/2002 Definitions: Data Store  vs.   Data Warehouse??? This is an old article, but it is a great, simple contrast in definitions of and Data Store   vs.   Data Warehouse.  Often the two terms are used interchangeably by implementers, but there really are some clear differentiators between the concepts.  I recommend this as a very quick education on the two topics.  There is much more out there in cyber-space if you do an internet search on the terms, but as a short explanation, this is great.     
     

 



Hot topics and reading recommendations regarding-technology. (News "tidbits")

- The Open Group
- TOGAF
- ITIL Information
- Project Management Institute (PMP info)
- American Society for Quality (six-sigma info)
- Microsoft
- IBM
- LINUX information
- TCP/IP (Internet Protocol Suite)
- Data Storage Topics
- Basics of Analytics


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