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Does IT Infrastructure really matter? YES!

Infinidat

In May 2003 Nicholas Carr published a piece titled “ IT Doesn’t Matter ”. But I find myself disagreeing with his interpretations of his own credible evidence, and more importantly his conclusions, just as strongly now as I did then when I first read his piece in 2003, if not more so. Does IT Infrastructure really matter? Evan Doherty.

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Our book “Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture” is published!

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Neal Ford – Author of the book “Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change” Neal Ford is director, software architect, and meme wrangler at Thoughtworks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. Rene Weiss is a CTO at Finabro.

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

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This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Eddie Garcia.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Eddie Garcia.

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Global Software Architecture Summit 2022 Recap

Apiumhub

He has been in the software industry since 1983 and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Prior to forming R7K, Michael was the Chief Scientist of Obtiva and a consultant with Object Mentor International. João is a Strategic Software Delivery Consultant at Xebia.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

It is my contention that when the total cost of using all your data exceeds what you are able to spend using purpose-built technologies, it is time to consider using a general purpose solution like Hadoop for process offloading. Hadoop’s low cost and broad applicability are definitely worth exploring. What is Big Data?

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Q&A with Eric Cowperthwaite, Identity and Access Management Executive

Sailpoint

You’ll be a CTO or a CIO somewhere someday.” It was sometime around 2003, and EDS had won a contract with the state of California. This contract required EDS to provide an information security officer for a specific program in the state. They have seven different applications in your network that they use.