• Creating Your Enterprise Architecture Roadmap
• Knowledge Management: A Strategic Condition of Success
• Enterprise Security Maturity Assessment

"Am I the only one who's getting tired of the placement of all things information- and information-processing related in the silo of 'IT' separate from an organization's core business? In an age where every administrative assistant 'works with computers' all day long, haven't we reached the point where we should be viewing IT as a cross-cutting concern embedded within every team and job function, and not as something run out of a separate office by a bunch of nerds whom the rest of the company doesn't understand? Maybe I'm misinterpreting or exaggerating the split between IT and business because I admittedly work for a small software firm and not a megalithic 'traditional' business. Or maybe I'm right, and it's a generational thing. Top executives are typically people in their fifties who cut their teeth in business before these new-fangled 'computers' were relevant to most people. To folks coming up today, the applicability and benefits of leveraging IT in every field at every time is so obvious that it's difficult to even communicate effectively with someone who doesn't see things that way."

• starts with definitions of the cloud and its deployment models
• presents cases of cloud usage by US government agencies
• lists record management challenges posed by the cloud
• proposes guidelines for standards and policies to manage records stored in a cloud
• proposes draft language, which could be adapted for private companies, to set in a contract with a cloud provider its obligations with respect to records.