Agile
What is Architecture and how can Agile improve Architectural Design?
A curious aspect of IT Architecture is that there is no single definition of Architecture. This causes real problems on projects. The reason is that Architectu…
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AgileAgile and Domain Driven Design
Issues with Agile include scaling and not having a detailed design which considers all aspects of security, interoperability and networking. OOAD and Domain Dr…
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VirtualizationImportant aspects of Storage and Compute Virtualisation
Important aspects of Storage and Compute Virtualisation There are 2 important points about storage and cloud computing: 1) The relationship between storage and…
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VirtualizationOrchestrating Automated Actions in the Cloud
An orchestrator refers to a software system programmed with workflow rules and business logic that facilitates automated actions and integrated connectors to e…
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VirtualizationManaging Cloud Deployments
Managing cloud systems and orchestrating workloads is a primary concern as well as a learning curve for organisations deploying a cloud architecture. Important…
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Cloud Design GoalsCloud Native Characteristics
PCF is the market leading PaaS platform and very useful if deploying on Azure and other Cloud IaaS models. Migrating, refactoring or building apps to be ‘Cloud…
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Cloud Design GoalsCloud Native versus Traditional Applications
Cloud Native vs Traditional IT Most Cloud Platforms are trending towards breaking down monolithic services into ‘micro’ or discrete services. An example would …
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Cloud Design GoalsKey Cloud Design Goal: Redundancy, High Availability
Redundancy, Availability, Continuity, and Disaster Recovery A key benefit of virtualising the infrastructure is to construct a platform which provides best-of-…
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VirtualizationVirtual Machine Management
Virtual Machine Management – key aspects of automating the process Managing VMs in the Cloud is usually manual, intrusive and time consuming. It would in…
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VirtualizationVM CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT – 5 key concepts
An automated VM-cloud management system populates the configuration management database, with the server and compute resource detail of the VMS; as part of an …
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Cloud Design GoalsPhases and Categories of TOGAF and building robust Architectures
Architectures are iterative creations. They are not sequential, waterfall processes. This obviously means that iterative methodologies such as Agile-Scrum are …
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Cloud Design GoalsTOGAF and the Architecture ‘Continuum’
TOGAF and the Architecture ‘Continuum’ Definitions: TOGAF: The Open Group Architecture Framework Continuum: A continuous extent or succession from a starting p…
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