Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

So I was teaching a class in Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance this week.  In one of the class exercises, one of the students pr...

So for those of you who thought the cloud only pays if your a consumer of technology who is looking for scalability and flexible pricing m...

This sign from yesterday reminded me of the debates last night.  Arguments, attacks, and counterpunchs between the candidates (and the p...

So I took this photo of a handout being distributed at a major local university here in Washington, DC. Sort of ironic for this sign tha...

We went hiking the trails yesterday in Maryland along Rock Creek. And we came across this makeshift toilet in the woods.  Surpris...

So I overhead a conversation of 2 young women in Starbucks talking about their college education.  One of them while acknowledging th...

So a vendor comes in and does a pitch and demo for a product we were interested in.  But this technology vendor, a Fortune 100 company, ...

So swimming in the pool, I meet little 7-year old Jonah.  He sort of made himself known to me when he decided he wanted to race me on th...

Another good depiction of enterprise architecture. What we are, the divide, and what we want to be. We have to make the leap, but only...

How do these things keep happening to us? We lost a high-tech Hellfire air-to- ground missile, accidentally sending it to Cuba , likely ...

So another tragic  major train derailment in Philadelphia this week.  Already 8 people killed and over 200 injured.  All over the news...

So Microsoft has tried to do the copycat thing of the Apple Store.  See Apple (top photo) streaming with customers trying out their w...

The future of cybercrime will soon become the almost routine taking of your personal and corporate data as hostage.  On...

So I bought a really comfy chair--everyone wants one of these.  (Note: Pictured here is not the actual chair or store from my story ...

So HP, under Meg Whitman, is breaking up into a PC/printing company and an enterprise products and services firm. Um...well of course...

Technology is not like buying a time share, thank G-d.  We examine the costs and the benefits, and it either works and provides us a tan...

InformationWeek  asks "Will IT Departments Disappear By 2020?" This question comes from Forrester Research which sees the comm...

A Chinese company, Ecovacs , has developed a robot that cleans your windows--and it looks quite like an iRobot that cleans your floors. Y...

This is a photo I took at Harpers Ferry. There was a train coming by pretty fast, and on the flatbeds were what seemed like a endless...

There's a big difference between doing something and saying you're going to do something.  Or as I learned early on--words a...