The Open Group sets a common standard for the enterprise architect role

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	The Open Group sets a common standard for the enterprise architect role If you scan job boards such as Dice.com you'll see thousands of postings for positions like "enterprise architect" or "IT architect." But there is no single definition of "architect" in our industry, and worse, there's no restriction on the use of the term. But The Open Group has a certification program that defines the qualities of an enterprise architect based on the mastery of skills as well as actual experience. This certification is widely embraced and respected by employers. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NetApp Are you maximizing IT efficiency? Optimizing IT efficiency can save time, money, and valuable resources. As the number-one line item in most IT budgets, storage is a good place to start. NetApp customers use half the storage of traditional approaches and can reinvest savings in revenue-generating opportunities. Learn to measure, monitor and improve efficiency and boost your bottom line. In this Issue Survey shows mixed emotions about outsourcing Study: Bias, rivalries can threaten UC deployments Amazon EC2 debacle drags on into Day 2 Banks go social to collaborate, reach customers Microsoft blasts Google Docs compatibility with Word WHITE PAPER: HP The People Side of Converged Infrastructure IT is undergoing a massive shift. CIOs are looking for more flexible architectures that will allow them to quickly react to business needs. The Converged Infrastructure delivers the flexibility that CIOs need, with a high level of simplicity and automation that accelerates business outcomes while reducing costs. Read now! Survey shows mixed emotions about outsourcing Cloud computing might ultimately usher in an era where more IT assets and functions live off premise, but one of the things that jumped out of a recent survey about outsourcing is there is still a lot of customer churn when it comes to relying on IT service suppliers. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Gartner Reviews IT Service Desk Vendors Gartner's 2010 Magic Quadrant report found IT organizations struggle to align service support and business needs – despite a competitive vendor market. Read Gartner's analysis to see why BMC is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for the IT Service Desk. Read More Today! Study: Bias, rivalries can threaten UC deployments Contention and biases among technology and business factions can derail the deployment of unified communications systems that are efficient, cost-effective and simple enough to use so they actually get adopted by end users, according to a Forrester Research study. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Take Control of Your Network Once and for All Join this IBM broadcast to learn how to manage and improve network configuration activity to keep your networks running, in compliance and generating revenue. View Now Amazon EC2 debacle drags on into Day 2 Despite restoring service for many customers, Amazon's troubles with its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service continue this morning, meaning that debate over the wisdom of relying on such cloud services is certain to grow louder. Read More Banks go social to collaborate, reach customers Financial services firms are beginning to use social networking sites to promote services to corporate customers, set up private online forums and monitor what customers say about them. Read More Microsoft blasts Google Docs compatibility with Word If there's one major disadvantage Google has in the documents war against Microsoft, it's that Microsoft products are so widely used that Google has to offer near-perfect compatibility with Microsoft Word when it comes to maintaining the format of documents moved from Word to Docs. Read More
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