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Adaptivity Keynote at Cloud Expo New York
The principles and freedoms of the American dream are finding themselves
resurrected again with cloud computing. The following blog will outline
background, details and living proof that cloud computing is one of the
catalysts of the future that will bring the American dream back!
As an immigrant and soon to be citizen of the United States of America, I
have experienced first hand and continue to experience the greatness of this
country and rewards of the American dream. My belief system of hard work
combined with the principle that "business is differentiated through IT" has
led to an amazing journey over the last several years living in the United
States. I come from humble beginnings of Saint John, New Brunswick,
Canada. My life and career has been influenced by both IT and business. I
have been blessed to live and wor... (more)
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Adaptivity, Inc, the company that is putting "IT
Blueprinting" on the map of Enterprise IT, is adamant: IT must invest in
architecture and engineering, and it must do so right away, here and now in
2010, 2011 and beyond.
An innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy,
design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology
platforms across large organizations, before founding Adaptivity Bishop
served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia's Corporate Investment Banking
Technology Group, where his team designed... (more)
The Economic Model for Enterprise IT can be thought of as the Business & IT
linkage of demand and supply. In particular, it is the interactive dynamics
of consumption of IT resources by the business and the fulfillment behavior
of processing by IT.
An economic model blueprint for Enterprise IT must orientate service delivery
(people, process and technology) as a digital supply chain. This supply chain
must adhere and be managed against the IT economic model.
The blueprint for an enterprise IT economic model - standardizes 5 key
components of an organization’s operational model in... (more)
Adaptivity Session at Cloud Expo
There is so much waste in the data centers of Fortune 1000 companies today
that a CIO – as an officer of the company – could be considered in breach
of their fiduciary duty to stockholders given the dollars in question. Of
course that requires costs transparency, so sadly most are safe for now. It
seems that every new technology innovation brings the promise of greater
efficiencies and cost savings but in reality tends to leave a mess of
‘legacy’ infrastructure on the floor that results in a net higher TCO
than the CIO had in the first place.
So... (more)
Adaptivity at Cloud Expo
There are a variety of applications that support numerous business lines
across an enterprise. These applications exhibit a wide range of operational
characteristics as they service the diverse business demands. That diversity
is the key to business success, but it has consequences.
Ask an enterprise application architect about how IT should run a data center
and you will find that the range of behaviours exhibited across the portfolio
of applications cannot be run on one set of standard platform configurations.
Most critical applications have extreme ope... (more)
Blueprint4IT is authored by a longtime IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations.
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