Kevin Francis:: Yes, but... : Sustainability

Enterprise Futures Forum

Kevin Francis — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:07:00 GMT

I'm talking at the Enterprise Futures Forum on Tuesday 17th on strategies for adopting SOA and the Cloud. Here's some information on the conference and a 2 for 1 offer that the organisers have running at the moment:

We are addressing the latest issues:

· 1. With the flurry of recent acquisitions (eg BEA, Peoplesoft, SUN, (SeeBeyond & MySQL), Stellent, Siebel, iflex) Oracle has become a major software supplier for most local enterprises. As a local enterprise professional, it makes sense to stay up to date with their software capabilities and strategy – come along and see what Matt Wright, Bill Hicks and Cameron McPhee have to say.

· 2. National broadband will open up new possibilities. Things which were not possible or practical before suddenly become possible.
Find out when, where and how much bandwidth is planned to come on line.

· 3. Australia will attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in early December. The resulting global agreement on emission reductions will most likely require businesses to monitor and curb their carbon emissions, and we in IT will be required to provide and modify systems for this. How are we going to do it?

· 4. SOA has been through the hype curve - find out where it really applies and how to go about it.

· 5. Hear all about how Google address the challenges of user apps, how you can take advantage of Google's technology when building your own. Did I mention the Wave demo and the surprise give-away to all attendees?...

Come for the whole day or half day – decide what is of most interest to you, and customise your day accordingly (www.gener8.com.au/ejaforum09)

Keynotes topics: Broadband initiative, Green IT, SOA, Google Wave

Stream Sessions: Business & Technical streams – 5 experts in each stream to take you into the future

Panel Discussions: Business & Technical sessions – 7 experts on each panel to answer your questions

Discussion Threads: Casual interactive afternoon sessions – Startups, Real SOA, Real Green IT and more – to get up close and personal with your preferred topics

Book by midday Friday and take advantage of the 2 for 1 offer!

Click here to register now!

Virtualisation Maturity Model

Kevin Francis — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:55:00 GMT

Here's an interesting article by Peter Koen that refers extensively to the Virtualisation Maturity Model that Peter Richardson and I invented for Edition 18 of The Architecture Journal. Lots of fun to see that we are being quoted, even if I wasn't aware that the article existed until today: http://architects.dzone.com/articles/part-1-move-blue-cloud-save. It is quite a good read though, so I recommend you go and have a look.

Australian Architecture Forum

Kevin Francis — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:36:00 GMT

I’ve been involved with the Australian Architecture Forum for some time now, from the outside through an involvement with IASA. Now that I’m with Object I have an opportunity to be involved from the inside, given that Object run the conference, and I’ve been putting a lot of time into the planning of this year’s Forum.

It therefore gives me great pleasure to announce that the Australian Architecture Forum (AAF) is ready to accept registrations.

We’re very proud of what we have planned for AAF this year. We’ve leveraged the best ideas from conferences around the world, such as our use of Open Space Technology and a unique approach to opening our preparation to partners.

We’ve also selected tracks to target some of the hottest architectural topics at the moment – cloud and sustainability, as well as a general architecture track to target architecture as a profession.

Have a look at the Australian Architecture Forum web site. Registration is coming soon. I’ll also be blogging on that site as our preparation continues.

Talking about sustainability

Kevin Francis — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:12:32 GMT

Now that the article on The Green Maturity Model for virtualisation in Issue 18 of The Architecture Journal is out there and generating interest it is time to start talking about it, The whole topic is of great interest and importance and I’ve continued to work on the IP behind it with others from Object.

I’m going to be presenting on Sustainable Architecture Design at JAOO in Sydney on May 8.

Details are here.

Hope to see you there.