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April 10, 2017 · 11:17 am

What are the differences between improving the design (and operation) of a smart city, an aircraft engine, a muscle car, a large enterprise, and an economic system …at hyperscale?

Original title: What are the differences between improving the design (and operation) of a smart city, an aircraft engine, a muscle car, a large enterprise, and/or an integrated commercial global cloud services platform …running at hyperscale?

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Question: What are the differences between improving the design (and operation) of:

  • a smart city,
  • an aircraft engine,
  • a muscle car,
  • a large enterprise, and/or
  • an econonic system
  • …running at hyperscale?

Answer: None.

Scroll down to see the use cases; then the list of resources at the bottom of this article.

Use Case 1: Aircraft engine
Use Case 2: Muscle car

Continuous Transformation 2

Figure 1. Continuous Transformation Model: Aircraft Engines and Muscle Cars

Use Case 3: Smart city
Use Case 4: Large enterprise operating at hyperscale

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Figure 2. Continuous Transformation Model: Smart Cities, Large Enterprises, and Cloud Services Platforms

Use Case 5: Economic systems

Figure 3. Continuous Improvement Framework applied to Economic Systems

Diving Deeper: #Graphitization

To go deeper, checkout #Graphitization of the Enterprise (click here) as well as the list of references below.

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Figure 4. #Graphitization Continuous Transformation Model

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Figure 5. Continuous Transformation Framework: Process Model

References

  1. Michael Herman, Blockchain Developer, Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist: #Graphitization Inventor  (click here)
  2. Continuous Transformation and Transformative Change are key principles of the Total Enterprise Architecture Model (TEAM) (click here)
  3. To dig deeper, check out Graphitization of the Enterprise (click here)
  4. [Enterprise Architecture, Big Data, CRM, ERP, …] Tools and Methods Don’t Generate Business Value (click here)

Best regards,

Michael Herman
Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist
E: mwherman@parallelspace.net
B: http://hyperonomy.com
L: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwherman/recent-activity/posts/

Living at the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Knowledge, and Data Science

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May 13, 2016 · 7:49 pm

Is there an Industry or Microsoft definition for Hyperscalability?

Is anyone aware of an industry or Microsoft definition for Hyperscalability? …for example, from an Internet of Things (IoT) perspective?

How about something like this?

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Best regards,

Michael Herman (Toronto)
Parallelspace Corporation
mwherman@parallelspace.net

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May 6, 2016 · 12:15 pm

Microsoft Azure Service Landscape – May 4, 2016

The following landscape views depict which Azure Services are deployed to or are available from each of Microsoft’s Regional Sites (aka Data Centers).  Enjoy.

Azure World Wide Regional Site Hierarchy (S00)

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Virtual Machine Services Regional Sites (1/2) (S001)

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Virtual Machine Services Regional Sites (2/2) (S006)

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Cloud Services Regional Sites (S013)

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Other Compute Services Regional Sites (S018)

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App Service Regional Sites (S023)

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Other Web and Mobile Services Regional Sites (S027)

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SQL Database Services Regional Sites (S031)

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Storage Services Regional Sites (S033)

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Other Data and Storage Services Regional Sites (S036)

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Cognitive (Intelligence) Services Regional Sites (S043)

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HDInsight Services Sites (S052)

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Analytics Services Regional Sites (S053)

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Internet of Things (IoT) Services Regional Sites (S059)

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Networking Services Regional Sites (S064)

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Media Services Regional Sites (S071)

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Other Media and CDN Services Regional Sites (S073)

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Hybrid Integration Regional Sites (S074)

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Identity and Access Management Services Regional Sites (S078)

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Visual Studio Team Services Regional Sites (S083)

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Other Developer Services Regional Sites (S085)

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Other Management Services Regional Sites (S090)

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Michael Herman (Toronto)

(c) Copyright 2016. Parallelspace Corporation.  All Rights Reserved.

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April 29, 2016 · 2:05 pm

Microsoft Azure Stack POC Architecture Reference Model (ARM): ArchiMate Model – version 1-0-7 – April 30, 2016

[Updated March 3, 2017]

PLEASE POST A COMMENT ABOUT WHY THIS PAGE IS IMPORTANT TO YOU.
This particular page is 1 of my top 5 most viewed pages (ever) and I’d like to understand why. Thank you!

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Figure 1. Parallelspace Logical/Physical Architecture View: Microsoft Azure Stack POC (April 2016)

[Click here for a larger version of the ArchiMate model]

Notes

  • The actual drive letters will vary from system to system. Don’t fret these details.
  • I’ll keep adding more detail to the model as I work through the full deployment of the Microsoft Azure Stack POC.

The above ArchiMate enterprise architecture model was created with Archi 3.2 – The Free ArchiMate Modeling Tool.  Download the latest version of Archi from here.

Here’s what the original Microsoft drawing (a Visio sketch – not a model) looks like in April 2016 (from https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-stack-architecture/):

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Figure 2. Microsoft Azure Conceptual Architecture View: Microsoft Azure Stack POC (April 2016)

[Click here for a larger version of the Microsoft drawing.]  It’s mostly useless but typical of what you’d expect in a Microsoft marketecture diagram.

Microsoft has subsequently updated their conceptual architecture diagram (March 1, 2017). It now looks like this (at the same URL noted above).  The new diagram is an improvement and I can’t help but imagine it was influenced by my ArchiMate model.

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Figure 3. Microsoft Azure Architecture View: Microsoft Azure Stack POC (March 2017)

For a topic that in theory has a relatively narrow audience, this article has had an extraordinary number of views over the past year.

Best regards,
Michael Herman (Toronto)
mwherman@parallelspace.net

p.s. I can only assume it is Microsofties trying to learn a little bit more about enterprise architecture.  You can see the (good) results in Figure 3 (above).

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April 6, 2016 · 11:35 am

Master Data Management vs. Master Metadata Management?

dq-mdm-iconHas anyone else been thinking deeply about the difference between the two? …it’s pretty significant and something I’ll be researching for the next few weeks.

The impetus for this project is a long history working in the fields of content migration (SharePoint-SharePoint and SharePoint-non SharePoint), information replication and synchronization (working with client using Metalogix Replicator for SharePoint and architecting its extension to support real-time replication between Lotus Notes and SharePoint for the US Navy), and large scale, heterogeneous, enterprise architecture software systems (based on BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio).

Additional background context includes my experiences with SharePoint (and Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud hosted version of SharePoint and the rest of the Office system), Salesforce, SQL Server (and the Microsoft data platform), and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, in turn, are all examples of large metadata-driven enterprise software platforms.

More recently, with the support of the product group I’ve been taking a critical look at Microsoft’s cloud hosted *data* catalog solution (Azure Data Catalog) as a Master X Management platform. I’m trying to figure would what the best description for X is …now and as ADC evolves going forward.

“More news at 11…”

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