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Architecture PrinciplesArchitecture Principles are statements of intent or purpose related to the use of Information Technology (IT) within

the organization. They describe preferred practices to be followed when implementing new or upgraded systems.

They provide the foundation upon which the IT Architecture is built.

Architecture principles relate business and Information Technology requirements in language that all managers can

understand. The principles outlined are derived from overarching Enterprise Architecture principles for businessresulting in the development of detailed principles to guide the development of technology models, technology

selection and criteria, standards selection and policies and procedures affected by the use of IT.

Policies - High-level rules or constraints

Principles - underlying general rule; require motivation and implication

Guidelines - a general statement of direction, not normally mandatory

If we do not know where we are going, we are unlikely to get there.

If you cannot describe it you cannot built it.


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Segment Current Future Direction

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Standards:

Development / Test / Production One application, one server Virtualisation

Desktop Windows XP Win 7.0.

n-? Versions of SW

Mixture of Physical and

Virtual computing.

All SW to be current

version or n-1.

Infrastructure as a Service

Software as a Service

Non existant

IBM provides Private

Cloud (Managed Services)

User Self Serve

Use trusted partners for

Private Cloud and XaaS

offerrings

Principles:

Rationalise, consolidate, share,

protect the 'Corporate data asset'

Data decentralised and at

risk.

Business decision makers

not able to view all

corporate data.

Centralise and protect data

where possible and

practical.

Provide data wharehouse

and data mining.

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Technology Standards, Principles and Guid

Computing Platforms (Server platforms, desktop platforms, OS, system software)


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Use top right quadrant (Gartner)

for harware and software

solutions

Product choice is not based

on requirements?

Capture business

requirements, allign with

corporate strategy, maintain

relationships with key

vendorsGuidelines:

Minimise spend, complexity

and administrative overheads

User Self Service

Physical servers Virtualise before Cloud

before Physical

2

Standards:

Data Centre storage Fragmented EOL storage

devices, expensive to

manage

Consolidate data in HA,

scalable, efficient and

manageable storage

solution

Evaluate Cloud Storage

options to lower

dependance on internal IT

skills

Infrastructure as a Service Non existant User Self Serve

Storage and Backup (Datacenter storage and backup)


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Guidelines:

4

Standards:

Principles:

Software products must be

configured only not customised

to meet business needs

Guidelines:

5Standards:

Server DBMS

Data Access Interface

Reporting Tools

Backup and Recovery Tools

Extract/Transform/Load (ETL)

Data Movement:

Large bulk files (>1 hr xmit)

Application Technical Environment (Middleware, app servers, component model)

Data Management and Movement (Server DBMS, ETL tools, query and reporting


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Small bulk files (


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Principles:

Guidelines:

8

Standards:

Problem Management

Application Monitoring

Principles:

Guidelines:

9

Standards:

Identification

Authentication

Authorization

Perimeter Access Control

Confidentiality

Network and System Mgmt (Problem mgmt, performance monitoring, resource mg

Security (Identification, authentication, authorization, perimeter access control, enc

Note: These standards apply to IMS' interface to and use of network and system managem


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Comments

VMware is the most mature and offers the

greatest level of manageability

Solution must be fit for purpose.

IT must prove it can provide value to the

business.

IT&T to review cost effective HW and SW

solutions for business units.

Create an Infrastructure offering that provides

fully managed service to IT&T core customers

while providing a IaaS SaaS foundation for

other business units

Utilise internal and external resources to

achieve.

Data is an irreplaceable corporate asset that if

lost is costly and sometimes unrecoverable.

data assets must be protected and centralised

for security and mining

elines


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Comments

Interoparability of products baed on industry

standards for ease of management and cost

control is required

Embrace Virtualisation and Vendor MS (Private

Cloud) solutions to ease management

Create an Infrastructure offering that provides

fully managed service to IT&T core customers

while providing a IaaS foundation for other

business units


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Comments

During the NEC Refresh, IT&T will review

storage and backup solutions to provide a

feature rich tool set that automates a tiered

storage management capability.

Embrace Virtualisation and Vendor MS (Private

Cloud) solutions to ease management

Argent will be bought uptp date and configured

(in principle) as master monitor with feeds from

other tools and vendors network.


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Comments

If a SW product is configured it allows for

future product roadmap.

If a SW product is customised, it more often

leads to a deadend when SW is EOL, requiring

a 'Forklift upgrade'

ools, DB access)


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Comments

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nt services, not the services themselves.


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Name Date

Jyoti Bhattacharjee Aug-11


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