Architecture - News, Features, and Slideshows

• RMIT architecture students seeing design differently after AR roll-out

  Augmented reality technology looks set to disrupt architecture and design.

• ANZ seeks partner to rethink architecture for agile

  The bank yesterday announced it was starting a formal process to appoint a systems integration partner "to assist in the scoping and design of our technology architecture" to support its new organisation-wide agile approach.

• Ridley leads charge on 'intelligent built environments' in digital age

  ​Ridley is on a mission to create ‘intelligent built environments’ as it continues to buck the trend and act as a trailblazer in digitising the stereotypical slow-to adopt, manually-driven construction industry.

• Macquarie Bank competing with 'the last app you used', says digital architect

  Macquarie Bank is competing with ‘the last application that you used on your mobile’ says its digital architect.

• How Norman Disney & Young's Frank Italia stays one step ahead of disruption

  Norman Disney & Young’s (NDY) IT director, Frank Italia, has witnessed some incredible digital transformation in the property sector, leading the firm through generations of new design technologies, right into the groundbreaking building information modelling (BIM) techniques.

• ESB Persists As Application Integration Tool

  The tried-and-true enterprise service bus--long the foundation of now-dated service oriented architecture deployments--is back in style thanks to the increasing need to integrate disparate applications. The secret to ESB's future success, some say, is a close tie to API management tools.

• Facebook Open Sources Thrift Protocol ... Again

  After more than six years of internal development of its branch of the cross-language framework that powers its internal services, Facebook has released that branch to open source and hopes to work with the Apache Thrift community to incorporate the work.

• 2013 InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Awards

  InfoWorld, Forrester Research, and the Penn State University Center for Enterprise Architecture honor five companies that launched EA initiatives with dramatic business impact

• The firm behind Healthcare.gov had top-notch credentials -- and it didn't help

  CGI Federal, the lead contractor at Healthcare.gov, is a veritable black belt in software development, with the highest possible certification from CMMI. So what does the website's flawed rollout say about how useful CMMI is?

• How to Beat Storage Bottlenecks in a Flash

  When a data visualization and analysis software provider found that its backend storage was slowing down its developers, it resisted the urge to add capacity. Instead, it turned to a software solution that scales storage performance using virtualization.

• 2013 InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Awards

  InfoWorld, Forrester Research, and the Penn State University Center for Enterprise Architecture honor five companies that launched EA initiatives with dramatic business impact

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