Enterprise architecture and the goal of aligning business goals with standardized IT best practices took a major step forward with the announcement this week that the Association of Open Group ...

This guest BriefingsDirect post comes courtesy of Heather Kreger, IBM’s lead architect for SOA Standards in the IBM Software Group. Architecture standards are especially valuable for creating a common ...

Mission systems provide crucial elements of our warfighting capabilities--in the case of aviation mission systems, components integrat-ed directly onto an air vehicle and encompassing traditional ...

What does it take to design a building? There’s creating spaces that are efficient and pleasing, and bringing in beauty with colours, lighting and aesthetics. Structural engineering that makes ...

With growing interest in computer security and the protection of the code and data which execute on commodity computers, the amount of hardware security features in today’s processors has recently ...