The IT Infrastructure I want & why – A Personal Perspective Ian Race ICR Consulting Ltd

My Infrastructure -1 Two laptops – fortunately they are both Dell – so I have only one power supply

My Infrastructure -2 Two mobiles – fortunately they are both Sony Ericsson – so I have only one power supply

My Infrastructure - 3 Phew – Only one Blackberry – but it has its own power supply

My Infrastructure - 4 And that’s a total of 4 mobile phone SIM cards 1 Blackberry And 1 in the laptop! (2 aerials)

My Infrastructure - 5 Two one time PIN generators – on board power supply (but I can’t change it)

My Infrastructure - 6 Two pre-pay cards Oyster Work food (& access)

My Infrastructure - 7 6 DVDs

My Infrastructure - 8 Two pairs of headphones

My Infrastructure - 9 A pile of physical tickets And a pile of business cards

My Infrastructure - 10 4 USB Drives

My Infrastructure - 11 And a handful of Credit & Debit cards

But what do I actually want to do? Work Collaborate To contact and be contactable Find things out and be informed Shop Bank Travel Eat and drink Relax Wake up

Who Am I When I Do These Things? Employee Colleague Customer Prospective Customer Family member Myself Anonymous ?

What do I want to do vs who I am   Employee Colleague Customer Prospective Customer Family Member Myself Anonymous Work X Collaborate To contact and be contactable Find things out and be informed Shop Bank Travel Eat and drink Relax Wake up

What do I use? X Laptop Phone B'berry One Time Pin Pre-pay Card DVD   Laptop Phone B'berry One Time Pin Pre-pay Card DVD Headphone Tickets USB Drives Credit & Debit Cards Work X Collaborate To contact and be contactable Find things out and be informed Shop Bank Travel Eat and drink Relax Wake up

The Abstracted View Identity Application Data Presentation/Delivery

Identity From our roles Business equates to confidential Employee Colleague Customer Prospective Customer Family member Myself Anonymous Business equates to confidential Personal equates to confidential Prospective & anonymous equates to shared

Application May be shared or personal Configuration

Data Business – confidential Personal – private Who do you trust with your data? What data is yours? Profiling

Presentation/Delivery Ultra Light Work For me to be able to work I just need a reasonably maintained PC and my work one time PIN generator This gives me access to a virtual private network (VPN) or to a virtual work station A great mobile solution providing there is some hardware to use (and no key loggers)

Presentation/Delivery Mobile Devices for Nomads Basic phone & text (text based services) Email client Internet – iPhone impact Storage – 8Gb phones (5 films @ 1.5 Gb!) Camera Location / GPS / co-location Geiger counter Projector Keyboard Power Identity Just enough real estate to do the job Cheap enough for the mass market

Presentation/Delivery I Just Want Can I use devices provided In a hotel On a plane On a train?? In a coffee shop In a bookstore?? I don’t bring my own media

Presentation/Delivery If I’m Shopping Some of my own data is useful Shopping lists Cupboard & fridge contents Comparative prices

Presentation/Delivery Shopping Offers If the store knows that I am shopping it could... Pre-pack my basic shop Prepare my basic shop while I look for other stuff Personalise offers Allow me to browse the store from the trolley or in store Pre-order to collect...

Can I Be Anonymous Ever Again? There are some simple common themes Role and identity Application Data Much of what is happening today ties these together

Other Consolidation Cash cards and pre-payment Cards and tickets Media and solid state memory USB Sticks and secure storage

Current Industry Trends MESH The view of central infrastructure will continue be virtualised away from the hardware and the applications End user hardware will continue to evolve and increase in functionality Decrease in hardware costs will enable wider use of IT based services Standard based environments for automated maintenance Embedded computing will increase We will see some limited function operating systems Limited function languages being used to deliver niche application functionality

So What? As an Architect you have a key role Infrastructure maturity Mature in the data centre Still immature almost every where else One Certainty – it’s going to continue to evolve

Step back and look forward What Will Persist Identity Roles change Data The Key Applications and Presentation/Delivery will continue to evolve Step back and look forward

References My email Sites www.azulsystems.com www.cohesiveft.com ian.race@dsl.pipex.com Sites www.azulsystems.com www.cohesiveft.com www.paremus.com www.mesh.com www.economist.com Feb 16-22 issue March 8-14 issue April 12-18 issue