Answer: Nothing
Continuous Transformation is a key principle of the Progressive Enterprise Architecture Model (PEAM); part of the practice of Total Enterprise Architecture Management (TEAM).
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Michael Herman (Toronto)
Parallelspace Corporation
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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Michael Herman (Toronto)
Parallelspace Corporation
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Rather than pollute my blog with several FYHumor IoT postings, I’ll gather them here into this single article (reverse chronological order). Some of these listing might be a bit on the “colorful” side …even judged in poor taste by some. Others might judged to not even be funny. Caveat Emptor
4. This was tweeted yesterday…
3. Just took the socks out of the dryer: Does anyone know of an Event/IoT Hub and Machine Learning module that will sort and fold socks?
2. “If you don’t have a real office, does that make you an Internet Thing?” Michael Herman, April 2016.
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1. External IoT gone too far …
[Updated March 3, 2017]
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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 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/):
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.
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.
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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).
[Caveat: The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit strictly speaking does not use any of the Azure services that support the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite. That being said the MAP Toolkit is a great example of what the analysis experience might be like. Maybe some day there will be a direct pipe from Azure Event Hubs/Stream Analytics/Data Factory and the MAP Toolkit discovery, logging and tracking capabilities.]
Previously I highlighted that one of the Delve Analytics videos was a great example of what an Enterprise IoT experience might look like. In this post, I’m highlighting a second example: The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit.
Here is some what dated overview video but check it out just the same. You’ll certainly get the idea.
Lastly, here’s a second screen shot from the MAP Toolkit sample database – the one the results from drilling down to learn more about your organization’s Windows Server 2008 R2 deployment/upgrade readiness.
Michael Herman (Toronto)
Filed under IoT, Parallelspace TDM
[Caveat: Delve Analytics (and the Microsoft Office Graph) strictly speaking do not use any of the Azure services that support the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite. That being said Delve Analytics is a great example of what the analysis experience might be like. Maybe some day there will be a direct pipe from Azure Event Hubs/Stream Analytics/Data Factory into the Office Graph. Given this crosses product group boundaries, I wouldn’t expect this to come about any time soon.]
Today, I ran across this 9 minute video with Ryan Fuller about a new Office Graph capability called Delve Analytics.
This video is an absolutely great example of the Enterprise IoT landscape I talked about in my article from a couple days ago: External IoT vs. Internal IoT: Beware of the Hype Cycle. … an absolutely perfect example.
Here’s a link to the YouTube video Introducing Delve Analytics in Office 365 (April 6, 2016).
Watch it …it’s only 9 minutes.
Michael Herman (Toronto)
Filed under IoT, Parallelspace TDM
Subtitle: Fusing Enterprise IoT and Traditional Enterprise Architecture
Context
External IoT – External world of devices, events, connections, storage, and analysis; the “traditional” Internet of Things; the world of devices outside the enterprise.
Internal IoT – Internal world within the enterprise consisting of business processes, business objects, actors and roles; application components, application services, application functionality, and data objects; and lastly, infrastructure consisting of servers, networks, data stores, foundation services, and foundational functionality. The “hum” within an Enterprise.
Enterprise IoT – The confluence or integration of External IoT and Internal IoT landscapes centered around a particular enterprise organization. Often represented and accessed as an enterprise graph.
Ecosystem IoT – The confluence or integration of 2 or more separate Enterprise IoT landscapes (complete or partial) centered around a specific ecosystem or community. Supporting Federated Enterprise Architecture.
Discussion
Do some of these latter terms sound familiar? If so, you likely have some exposure, background, and experience with the practice of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM). Having lived on both sides of the IoT divide for more than a decade, it’s interesting to watch how the current rage around IoT is almost exclusively focused on External IoT and it’s coupling to Business Intelligence and Analysis.
What about what’s happening inside the business, information, application and infrastructure architecture of our own enterprises? …regardless of whether the “things” are internal to your organization, external to your organization, or, possibly, part of someone else’s organization (e.g. owned by a client, customer, partner, …), it’s all part of the Enterprise IoT landscape.
A good name for the combination of External IoT and Internal IoT is the “Enterprise of Things” …but another organization is already using this term.
Ultimately, this is all about the Internet of Things merged and being combined with Enterprise Architecture Management: Enterprise IoT.
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