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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. My Infrastructure - 7
6 DVDs

10. My Infrastructure - 8
Two pairs of headphones

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

12. My Infrastructure - 10
4 USB Drives

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

14. 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

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

16. 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

17. 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

18. The Abstracted View
Identity
Application
Data
Presentation/Delivery

19. 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

20. Application
May be shared or personal
Configuration

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

22. 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)

23. Presentation/Delivery Mobile Devices for Nomads
Basic phone & text (text based services)
client
Internet – iPhone impact
Storage – 8Gb phones (5 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

24. 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

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

26. 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...

27. 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

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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. References My email Sites www.azulsystems.com www.cohesiveft.com
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