EA and the Cloud: Design for Dramatic Business Value

Cloud Solutions Architecture 101

Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provides tremendous new opportunities to realize business value through capital and operating cost savings. At the same time, Cloud IaaS characteristics mean that traditional approaches to systems and solutions architecture are in many ways outmoded. Modern Cloud solution architectures take advantage of the unique characteristics of Cloud services to provide greater efficiencies. This presentation provides an approach to cloud solutions architecture, illustrated by some common cloud use cases and examples.

Build TOGAF, UDEF, and Other Standards in the Cloud

The Open Group has begun to explore how to address next generation semantic interoperability needs across different existing information exchange standards, vocabularies, and web resources (e.g. TOGAF, SOA, and Cloud Computing, UCore 2.0, DISA Metadata Registry, Air Force Vocab OneSource). This presentation will show progress in achieving Semantic Interoperability across these different existing information exchange standards, vocabularies, and web resources and how Cloud Computing tools can be very useful in doing that work.

Download the event brochure at:

http://eaprincipals.com/docs/AOGEA-WMA_Event_Mar_23_2011.pdf

A nominal fee of $30.00 is required (or $20.00 — if pre-paid by 21 March via PayPal@AOGEA-WMA.org). Refreshments will be served starting at 5:30. Join the Networking! Presentations start at 6:15. The raffle will be at 8:45.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Jim Tyson, Assistant General Manager and Project Director at Synectics for Management Decisions. With more than 30 years of experience in computer and information systems, Jim provides technical and management leadership on information technology (IT) projects such as governance, business intelligence, computing trends, and engineering and software solutions. Mr. Tyson received an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School, and a Juris Doctor degree at Concord Law School. He is also TOGAF Certified; and a founding Board member, Lecturer and Practicum Mentor for the new Enterprise & Solution Architecture Institute (ESAI). Brand Niemann, Ph.D., Director and Senior Data Scientist of the Semantic Community and former Senior Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Along with being faculty for EA Principals, Inc., Dr. Niemann is also a founding Board member, Lecturer, and Practicum Mentor for the new Enterprise & Solution Architecture Institute (ESAI). Brand has also written an online book "A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. EPA and the Federal Government" and implemented A Gov 2.0 Platform for Open Government in a Data Science Library.