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

IT governance is something people tend to have a love/hate relationship with. They love it because they know they need it and will benefit f...

Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44 billion—brilliant play or stupid move? Some say it’s a brilliant move: According to techcru...

Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love. For thousands of years, people have demonstrated their deepest expressions about love through inti...

For years, we’ve all heard the promise that technology will soon make us a paperless society—but it hasn’t! In the book, Sacred Cows Ma...

It is the 21 st century and we are a nation dependent on everything internet. We rely on the internet for communications, like email, text ...

I believe most people would say that the United States is one of the most innovative countries in the world. And this in no small way has le...

What is the value-add of enterprise architecture? In Architecture and Governance Magazine, Volume 4 Issue 1, an article entitled, “Architect...

User-centric EA establishes the baseline architecture, identifies user requirements, establishes a target architecture, conducts a gap analy...

Organizations are like people, they have ups and downs. They have a beginning and an end (even as they transition or morph into something el...

While the Web 1.0 is viewed as an information source, and Web 2.0 as participatory, Web 3.0 is envisioned as Semantic (or the Semantic Web)....

Often I hear business and IT people say that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the way ahead to achieve greater interoperability of sys...

Enterprise architecture seeks to simplify organizational complexity through both business processes reengineering and technology enablement....

For CIOs, one of the secrets of the trade for building cost efficiency is consolidation of IT assets, such as data centers and help desks. O...

Enterprise architecture is critical to effective IT governance. EA establishes the baseline and target architectures and the transition pla...

Peer-to-peer ( P2P )—“computer network uses diverse connectivity between participants in a network and the cumulative bandwidth of network ...

Firewalls have traditionally been used to “wall off” the enterprise from computer attack, but now intrusion-prevention systems are augmentin...

Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, 27 August 2004, is a “Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Con...

Breakthrough thinking is at the heart of great enterprise architecture. Incremental improvements in the organization are one thing, but dram...