A lot of people want to submit and defend for their VCDX, but they never get around to putting their design together because they just don’t know where to begin – especially people who are starting from scratch with a wholly fictitious design. I suffered from this myself, and wrung my hands for a long […]
I’m on the plane back from another set of VCDX panels, and I’m reminded of an area of Enterprise Architecture that seems to be glossed over: Risk Management. I read through a lot of design submissions that are light in this area. This is concerning to me because any Enterprise Architecture methodology worth its salt […]
This is an excerpt from a presentation I give to explain the value of VMware Professional Services and why a customer needs the services of an Enterprise Architect. It uses cars as an analogy for people who aren’t very familiar with vSphere, because most technical people I’ve met have some frame of reference when it […]
The simplest way to explain the purpose of EA is to paraphrase John Zachman: “We should try to understand the Enterprise first, before we go and build infrastructure to support it. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes time to implement or migrate to, but most importantly it is hard to change once in production. Therefore the […]
I just received word that my VCDX-NV design package passed scrutiny, and I am now officially a double VCDX (I already obtained my VCDX-DCV about 18 months prior). I have zero inclination at the moment to try for a third. Way too many other side projects that need attention. This blog, for example. But who […]