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Welcome to The Open Group blog
What do you do when you are full of ideas, are privy to the collaboration initiatives between the top IT, security and EA professionals in the world, and have a lot to say? You start a blog, of course....
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When IT is really about communication
Don't try to change your business leaders. They have a job to do. Your job is to change the ways you communicate, react and respond to your business leaders. Continue reading →
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Security & architecture: Convergence, or never the twain shall meet?
Can the disciplines of architecture and information security do a better job of co-existence? What would that look like? Can we get to the point where security is truly "built in" versus "bolted on"?...
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The Newest from SOA: The SOA Ontology Technical Standard
Open Group introduces the SOA Ontology Technical Standard: Have a look at the new SOA Ontology and see if it can help you in your communications for SOA. Continue reading →
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The Trusted Technology Forum: Best practices for securing the global...
Supply chain risk needs focus to be able to address the concern. If everything is “a supply chain risk,” then we can’t focus our efforts and hone in on a reasonable, achievable, practical and...
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IT: The professionals
Business decision makers aren't interested in the details, but they want to know important IT decisions being made in their business are in the hands of true professionals. Certification verifies the...
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New year, new certification
Until recently, virtually all IT certifications have been based on an individual’s recollection of a body of knowledge and their ability to pass a computer-based test. Perhaps a better method of...
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Underfunding IT security programs
Security professionals rarely say that things are getting better on the threat side of information security. Underfunding IT security programs is a recipe for disaster. Continue reading →
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It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world!
I’m not saying that TOGAF™ can save the universe, but from where I’m sitting, it looks like our best bet at the moment! Continue reading →
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SOCCI: Behind the Scenes
By E.G. Nadhan, HP Cloud Computing standards, like other standards go through a series of evolutionary phases similar to the ones I outlined in the Top 5 phases of IaaS standards evolution. IaaS...
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UNIX® is Still as Relevant as Ever
By Andrew Josey, The Open Group Despite being as old as man landing on the moon, the UNIX® operating system is still as relevant today as it was in 1969. UNIX is older than the PC, microprocessor and...
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Take a Lesson from History to Integrate to the Cloud
Steady growth of service oriented practices and the continued adoption of cloud computing across enterprises has resulted in the need for integrating out to the cloud. When doing so, we must take a...
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Viewpoint: Technology Supply Chain Security – Becoming a Trust-Worthy Provider
Increasingly, the critical systems of the planet — telecommunications, banking, energy and others — depend on and benefit from the intelligence and interconnectedness enabled by existing and emerging...
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ArchiMate® 2.0 and Beyond
There are several sessions on ArchiMate™ at the upcoming Open Group Conference in Barcelona. Henry Franken’s “Delivering Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®” session on October 22 at...
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2013 Security Priorities – Tweet Jam
2012 was a big year for security. Congress debated cybersecurity legislation ; social networking site LinkedIn was faulted for one of the largest security breaches in history; and global cyber...
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Operational Resilience through Managing External Dependencies
These days, organizations are rarely self-contained. The challenge here is how to manage the dependencies your operations have on factors that are outside your control. The Open Group's Dependency...
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2013 Open Group Predictions, Vol. 2
Continuing on the theme of predictions, here are a few more, which focus on global IT trends, business architecture, OTTF and Open Group events in 2013. Continue reading →
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The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) Program Transformed My Career
By Bala Prasad Peddigari, Tata Consultancy Services Limited Learning has been a continuous journey for me throughout my career, but certification in TOGAF® truly benchmarked my knowledge and Open CA...
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Enterprise Architecture in China: Who uses this stuff?
by Chris Forde, GM APAC and VP Enterprise Architecture, The Open Group Since moving to China in March 2010 I have consistently heard a similar set of statements and questions, something like this…....
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As Platform 3.0 ripens, expect agile access and distribution of actionable...
By Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions Listen to the recorded podcast here: This latest BriefingsDirect discussion, leading into the The Open Group Conference on July 15 in Philadelphia, brings...
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The Open Group Conference to Emphasize Healthcare as Key Sector for...
By Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions Listen to the recorded podcast here: Dana Gardner: Hello, and welcome to a special BriefingsDirect Thought Leadership Interview series, coming to you in...
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Gaining Dependability Across All Business Activities Requires Standard of...
By Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions Listen to the recorded podcast here: Hello, and welcome to a special BriefingsDirect Thought Leadership Interview series, coming to you in conjunction with The...
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Secure Integration of Convergent Technologies – a Challenge for Open Platform™
By Dr. Chris Harding, The Open Group The results of The Open Group Convergent Technologies survey point to secure integration of the technologies as a major challenge for Open Platform 3.0. This and...
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