Data Architecture vs. Information Architecture

In the world of data architecture there are a couple different roles identified that are often confused. The information architect and the data architect have been used interchangeably in the industry to solve similar problems. These two areas of architecture serve very different purposes for the enterprise. Seth Early, an information consultant defines Data Architects as being focused with…

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The Enterprise Application Architecture (Amazon Lesson Learned)

Future facing cloud is here to stay and Amazon is currently at the pinnacle of cloud computing. AWS, Amazon Web Services provides a menu of pre-packaged computing services. Cloud computing, moreover AWS provides foundational services ripe for the replacement of on-premise datacenters. Since cloud providers can take advantage through the economies of scale leveraging commodity hardware to feed their…

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The Enterprise Application Architecture (The cloud)

I wanted to critique the article in CIO magazine titled “The Case Against Cloud Computing” making note the differences between the when the article was written and today’s cloud landscape. The article was written in 2010, which in information technology is much like dog-years. The article goes into five key areas that are impediments to adoption. They are as…

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