It may be terrifying for those caught in the vortex between the old and the new way of work. Most professionals earned the right degrees, responded to the demands of their professions, learned the intricacies of their industries and were rewarded under the old system. It feels like a massive betrayal that an entire system is falling away.
The truth is that the cube was moved in part by a new breed of professional. They are skilled and passionate global workers who want the freedom to choose the type of work, rather than choosing a job based on its proximity to their homes. Rather than being hindered by location, they are able to compete based on talent and passion. While most of us were sleeping, they unknowingly leveraged cloud and mobile technology and created the New World of Work. And it was their passion for work, rather than some indiscreet evil force, that caused work to seep across boundaries and find its way to this new breed of talent.
Let this chapter be a call to action for those most affected by the New World of Work. Professionals need to reinvent themselves in order to compete in the New World of Work. Conversely, companies need to wake up to the reality that competing for the best talent locally will soon be a thing of the past. The best person for a job no longer lives within a fifty-mile radius of your corporation.
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Tapping EA Tools to Handle Complex Trends
Simultaneous and complex trends, such as big data, cloud computing, security, and overall IT transformation, can be helped by the combined strengths of The Open Group Architecture Framework and the ArchiMate modeling language.
There is less of a focus on the traditional things we come to think of EA such as standards, governance and policies, but rather into emerging areas such as the soft skills, business architecture, and strategy.
To this end I see a lot in the realm of working directly with the executive chain to understand the key value drivers for the company and rationalize where they want to go with their business. So we’re moving into a business-transformation role in this practice.
At the same time, we’ve got to be mindful of the disruptive external technology forces coming in as well. EA can’t just divorce from the other aspects of architecture as well. So the role that enterprise architects play becomes more and more important and elevated in the organization.
Two examples of this disruptive technology that are being focused on at the conference are big data and cloud computing. Both are providing impacts to our businesses not because of some new business idea but because technology is available to enhance or provide new capabilities to our business. The EA’s still do have to understand these new technology innovations and determine how they will apply to the business.
Tapping EA Tools to Handle Complex Trends
Simultaneous and complex trends, such as big data, cloud computing, security, and overall IT transformation, can be helped by the combined strengths of The Open Group Architecture Framework and the ArchiMate modeling language.
There is less of a focus on the traditional things we come to think of EA such as standards, governance and policies, but rather into emerging areas such as the soft skills, business architecture, and strategy.
To this end I see a lot in the realm of working directly with the executive chain to understand the key value drivers for the company and rationalize where they want to go with their business. So we’re moving into a business-transformation role in this practice.
At the same time, we’ve got to be mindful of the disruptive external technology forces coming in as well. EA can’t just divorce from the other aspects of architecture as well. So the role that enterprise architects play becomes more and more important and elevated in the organization.
Two examples of this disruptive technology that are being focused on at the conference are big data and cloud computing. Both are providing impacts to our businesses not because of some new business idea but because technology is available to enhance or provide new capabilities to our business. The EA’s still do have to understand these new technology innovations and determine how they will apply to the business.
Are There Other "as-a-Service" Cloud Offerings?
As already described in the previous few articles NIST defines three different service models for the cloud – IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. However if you look at the Wikipedia article about cloud computing you will notice that there are quite a few more «as-a-service» models mentioned there. Lot of vendors are using those to differentiate their offerings but there are two problems that arise.
Carl Icahn Threatens Michael Dell’s LBO
Carl Icahn, the famous “gangsta”-style activist investor, has stepped into the middle of Dell’s $24.4 billion leveraged buy-out, threatening “years of litigation” if he doesn’t get his way.
He has apparently amassed a 6% position in Dell, making him the company’s second-largest outside stockholder, and he wants a $9-a-share special dividend paid out instead of letting Dell founder Michael Dell take the company private.
In a letter to Dell’s board Thursday Icahn proposed that the dividend be paid if shareholders voted down the LBO and wants the vote combined with the company annual stockholders meeting so stockholders also vote on the board.
If they don’t do that – that’s where he’s promising “years of litigation” challenging the LBO.
Carl Icahn Threatens Michael Dell’s LBO
Carl Icahn, the famous “gangsta”-style activist investor, has stepped into the middle of Dell’s $24.4 billion leveraged buy-out, threatening “years of litigation” if he doesn’t get his way.
He has apparently amassed a 6% position in Dell, making him the company’s second-largest outside stockholder, and he wants a $9-a-share special dividend paid out instead of letting Dell founder Michael Dell take the company private.
In a letter to Dell’s board Thursday Icahn proposed that the dividend be paid if shareholders voted down the LBO and wants the vote combined with the company annual stockholders meeting so stockholders also vote on the board.
If they don’t do that – that’s where he’s promising “years of litigation” challenging the LBO.
Are there Other "as-a-Service" Cloud Offerings?
As already described in the previous few articles NIST defines three different service models for the cloud – IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. However if you look at the Wikipedia article about cloud computing you will notice that there are quite a few more «as-a-service» models mentioned there. Lot of vendors are using those to differentiate their offerings but there are two problems that arise.
Where are the highest paying cloud computing jobs?
Using analytics to better understand the cloud computing job market is fascinating.
One of the most advanced companies in this area is Wanted Analytics, who aggregates job postings from over 500 job boards and maintains a database of over 600 million unique job listings.
They specialise in business intelligence for the talent marketplace, providing insights into how one company’s salary range compares to competitors for the same position, also calculating the difficulty to hire a given type of candidate. They’ve
developed a unique Hiring Scale to accomplish this.
I recently had a chance to test-drive their analytics applications. Using the parameters to analyse all cloud computing jobs that pay $100,000 a year or more for the analysis, I ran several queries. Key takeaways include the following:
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA leads the MSAs with a salary range $118K to $144K and one of the highest Hiring Score …
Parallels Software: a Growing Ecosystem
by Darren Bibby, VP of Software Channels and Ecosystem, IDC Link
IDC Link’s VP of Software Channels and Ecosystem, Darren Bibby, enjoyed what he heard at Parallels Summit 2013 and has written a glowing review of the direction Parallels is headed in. Bibby was most impressed with APS 2.0 and its ability to create an ecosystem for ISVs that is easy to plug into. He likens APS to the Ikea Allen key as a tool that can put everything together. APS makes it easier for smaller service providers to find opportunity to grow by enabling them to easily add new software products to their infrastructure. Read for yourself this great review of Parallels plans and products, Parallels Software: A Growing Ecosystem.
3 reasons to embrace the private cloud
For everything cloud computing offers – speed, convenience, simplicity, offsite backups – its “public” nature remains a touchy subject for enterprise.
This simple fact explains why many organisations have been slow to embrace the cloud. In business, data security is everything. And for decision makers at big firms, trusting all mission-critical data into the care of a third-party IT vendor sounds just a bit too risky.
But with the arrival of the private cloud, organizations can enjoy the conveniences of cloud computing without a lot of the tradeoffs. Here’s why they might want to give it a shot:
1. Data security and compliance
“A virtual infrastructure that offers on-the-go, anytime data access may sound great, but how can we be sure our data is safe?”
This was – and still is – the big question for enterprise when confronted with cloud computing. The public cloud, they reason, is simply more vulnerable to misuse …