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		<title>An interesting articulation of Enterprise 2.0</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/an-interesting-articulation-of-enterprise-2-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Meehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Driven To Perform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enterprise 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nenshad Bardoliwalla]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I stumbled across an interesting blog post from Nenshad Bardoliwalla. One of the key points he makes is&#8230;
Enterprise 2.0 tools can actually drive quantified business value by combining the unstructured and structured processes
&#8230;so rather than it being an either/or choice &#8211; rather unsurprisingly as in most things it&#8217;s &#8220;horses for courses&#8221; &#8211; which he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&blog=3127698&post=290&subd=smart421&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A foray into IT academia&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/a-foray-into-it-academia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Meehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BCS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Byron Cook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[static analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other night I attended the BCS Roger Needham lecture held at the Royal Society in London &#8211; this is an annual event that recognises outstanding research work in the IT world and provides a platform for the author to present.  This year it was the turn of Dr Byron Cook from Microsoft Research, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&blog=3127698&post=288&subd=smart421&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IBM&#8217;s smarter planet initiative</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/ibms-smarter-planet-initiative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Meehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rashik Parmar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smarter planet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a full-on CTO day today, with a cloud computing partnership-related meeting this morning in London, then off to IBM&#8217;s Bedfont Lakes to meet Rashik Parmar, their European CTO, and now I&#8217;m waiting for the BCS Roger Needham lecture to start back in central London.
Rashik&#8217;s overview of IBM&#8217;s smarter planet initiative was fascinating &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&blog=3127698&post=286&subd=smart421&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Middleware (a.k.a. ESB) Choices &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/open-source-middleware-a-k-a-esb-choices-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taylordr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SOA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In part 1 I set out my requirements for evaluating and choosing an open source ESB, and promptly fall down a rabbit hole of OSGI and Maven when I get to see how much more there is to them than I was previously aware.
From time to time we get requests on how to get started [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&blog=3127698&post=257&subd=smart421&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web Traffic Management in clouds</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/web-traffic-management-in-clouds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Meehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big ip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DataPower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f5]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hearing more about web traffic management products recently, and they&#8217;ve been of increasing interest to me as they seem to fit nicely with a cloud deployment model &#8211; e.g. if you&#8217;ve got your SaaS app deployed to your favourite cloud provider so that you can scale out quickly without large upfront capital costs, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&blog=3127698&post=283&subd=smart421&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on John Zachman&#8217;s Enterprise Architecture presentation at BCS EA specialist group meeting</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/notes-on-john-zachmans-enterprise-architecture-presentation-at-bcs-ea-specialist-group-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Meehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enterprise Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Computer Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Zachman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zachman Framework]]></category>

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As advertised in my notes from the last BCS EA specialist group event, myself and my Smart421 colleague (David Taylor, head of our internal WebSphere practice) attended this evening&#8217;s John Zachman presentation at Sun&#8217;s offices in London. I felt it was too good a chance to miss as I&#8217;ve not seen John present before &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&blog=3127698&post=279&subd=smart421&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lombardi TeamWorks review</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/lombardi-teamworks-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Meehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Process Modelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BluePrint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BPEL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BPMN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Modeller]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[modelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Process Server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TeamWorks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WebSphere]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had a demo of Lombardi&#8217;s business process management (BPM) tooling the other day &#8211; Lombardi TeamWorks.
The first thing to note is that the tooling is Eclipse based and uses BPMN notation &#8211; in fact at first glance I thought it was IBM WebSphere Business Modeller as I&#8217;m more familiar with this!  It looks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&blog=3127698&post=277&subd=smart421&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doyenz: Cloud based disaster recovery</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/doyenz-cloud-based-disaster-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Russell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consultancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Robin Meehan just pointed me to an article in Information Week describing Doyenz Shadowcloud, an interesting product cloud-based disaster recovery solution.
Basically, the product allows SMEs to wire up the servers in their data centre so that they are incrementally backed up to the Doyenz cloud. When disaster strikes and your basement floods after a storm, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&blog=3127698&post=275&subd=smart421&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise Architecture case studies &#8211; Notes from BCS EA specialist group meeting</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/enterprise-architecture-case-studies-notes-from-bcs-ea-specialist-group-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Meehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enterprise Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BCS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Computer Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As threatened, I attended the BCS Enterprise Architecture specialist group meeting in London near Covent Garden yesterday.  There were two interesting presentations regarding EA case studies, both of which caused lots of debate and questions from the gathered audience.
Amit Apte from SITA presented an anonymised case study from the airline industry.  As is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&blog=3127698&post=273&subd=smart421&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WebSphere CloudBurst: More details and musings</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/ibm-websphere-cloudburst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Russell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBM WebSphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been at the IBM WebSphere User Group meeting in Edinburgh today, and attended a couple of sessions about IBM&#8217;s shiny new WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance.
For the un-initiated, the CloudBurst appliance is a hardware appliance which provides an easy means to deploy WebSphere products to virtualised infrastructure. We&#8217;ve written about this a couple of times before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&blog=3127698&post=268&subd=smart421&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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