Hi All,
The EDUCAUSE Constituent Group is now live. Go here: http://educause.edu/ITArchitectsConstituentGroup/12520 and sign up.
This will be the official email list for ITANA.
On another note: we are working out administration details for the rest of ITANA. Stay tuned.
Thanks,
Jim
Hi All,
Internet2 (Thanks Steve Olshansky) has created a wiki for ITANA. You can see it here: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Home. NOTE: You have to have an account to edit the wiki.
Ron Thielen (University of Chicago) gave this presentation describing a proposed program to develop an Enterprise Security Architecture. He describes what Architecture is and what architectural processes might look like. Some of you might find some part of this interesting or useful.
http://home.uchicago.edu/~rthielen/IT-Architecture-June-04.pdf
Apparently the Open Group has made some of the TOGAF documentation publicly available. The IT Architecture Skills Framework can be found at:
http://www.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/chap30.html
Hi All,
Welcome to 2007.
Internet2 has agreed to support the ITANA working group. They will provide a flywheel, collaboration tools (like a wiki) and web space (thank you Ken Klingenstein for your pushing on this). I’m still working with EDUCAUSE on the constituent group. The EDUCAUSE directors have agreed to host a constituent [...]
Hi All,
I will be at EDUCAUSE in Dallas next week. I hope to work out details on the organization while I’m there. If you’ll be at EDUCAUSE, I would love to meet and talk about ITANA. Post a message on the message board or send me an email if you want to [...]
I find that I have to explain what is I.T. Architecture and what does we do for the enterprise fairly frequently… actually - everytime I meet someone new. To help with those explanation and discussions in your enterprise, I gathered up a couple presentations on the topic:
Mark Poepping has a presentation about I.T. Architecture [...]
I have been talking with peers around the country about starting a peer group for I.T. Architects in Academia. Below you will find more information. As a note here: I have been contacted by at least three different universities in the past 6 months about starting their own Architecture group. [...]