Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Why business needs should shape IT architecture - McKinsey Quarterly - Business Technology - Organization "Too often, efforts to fix architecture issues remain rooted in a company’s IT practices, culture, and leadership. The reason, in part, is that the chief architect—the overall IT-architecture program leader—is frequently selected from within the technical ranks, bringing deep IT know-how but little direct experience or influence in leading a business-wide change program....

Frederic Michiar: Manage a flexible and elastic Data Center with Oracle VM Manager Frederic Michiar shares a list of Oracle VM resources. (tags: otn oracle virtualization) Mona Rakibe: BAM Data Control in multiple ADF Faces Components "When two or more ADF Faces components must display the same data, and are bound to the same Oracle BAM data control definition, we have to make sure that we wrap each ADF Faces component in an ADF task flow, and set the Data Control Scope to...

Andy Mulholland: We need innovation! What does that mean? "The most common response would seem to be ‘I will know it when I see it’, which suggests business success is based on ‘getting lucky’. As you might expect business schools don’t agree with this and as A G Lafley, author of several works on the topic comments: 'Innovation is risky, but it’s not random. Innovators have a disciplined invention process.'" Capgemini CTO blogger Andy Mulholland. (tags: entarch enterprisearchit...

Brian Dayton: My Doors - Why Standards Matter to Business "My 1951 house wasn't built with me in mind. They built what worked and called it a day. The same holds true with a lot of business applications. They were designed and architected for one-time use with one use-case in mind. Today's business climate is different." -- Brian Dayton (tags: oracle otn architecture businessalignment standards) Edwin Biemond: ADF Task Flow interaction with WebCenter Composer Oracle ACE Edwin...

Rittman Mead Consulting: Realtime Data Warehouses Rittman Mead Consulting's Peter Scott with a preview of his Real Time Data Warehousing talk at Collaborate 10. (tags: oracle otn rittmanmead collaborate2010 datawarehousing) Arun Gupta: Java EE 6, GlassFish, NetBeans, Eclipse, OSGi at Über Conf: Jun 14-17, Denver "Über Conf is a conference by No Fluff Just Stuff gang and plans to blow the minds of attendees with over 100 in-depth sessions (90 minutes each) from over 40 world class...

  The latest OTN Arch2Arch podcast is Part 1 of a three-part series featuring a discussion of a broad range of SOA  issues with three members of the small army of contributors to The Red Room Blog, now part of the OJam.biz site, the Australia-New Zealand outpost of the global Oracle community. The panelists for this program are: Sean Boiling - Sales Consulting Manager for Oracle Fusion MiddlewareLinkedIn | Twitter | Blog Richard Ward - SOA Channel Development Manager at OracleLin...

James McGovern: Enterprise Architecture and Social CRM "With a few exceptions, the vast majority of enterprise architects I know spend an awful lot of time focused on internal issues whether it is rationalization, the cloud, storage governance, data center consolidation, creation of reference architectures, portfolio management and other considerations that aren’t even visible to customers. One should ask whether IT can be truly successful if we are busy listening to the...

Dean Halbeisen: Best Practices for Network Backup (Sun StorageTek) Dean Halbeisen's white paper describes the Oracle reference architecture for next-generation data backup using Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup software. (tags: entarch oracle otn sun enterprisearchitecture storagetek)

@fteter: Let's Talk iPad "How long it will be before some cutting-edge enterprise architect includes the iPad in the technology layer of his or her future-state EA?" (tags: oracle otn oracleace ipad enterprisearchitecture) Vijay Tatkar: Using Oracle Solaris Studio to Develop Optimized Applications for Intel Vijay Tatkar gives it up in this review/preview of Mike Mulkey's new white paper on Open Solaris. (tags: sun solaris oracle intel xeon) Geertjan's Blog: Climate Monitoring in Denmark...