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("Enterprise architects and their counterparts in applications, data, network, and security, and other functional areas perform work that has always been hot and get hotter every day," says Foote. "But there aren't enough good ones out there." The best will be able to look into the future and figure out how to integrate cloud computing with in-house systems in a way that's sustainable and scalable. "More and more companies are starting to believe they shouldn't do anything unless they architect it first," Foote says.) quoted from Article
Abdullah, you have compiled two of the hottest things (as you said) in one thing "the Cloud Computing Technology, with the EA Role" totally agree with you the subject of the hour is the cloud computing along with the EA that has been growing up very fast in the past few months to see now positions like Infrastructure Architect, and cloud architect which require a wide knowledge about infrastructure, cloud, applications to be able to integrate and bring the cloud into the current environments.
Cloud computing is often characterised by: virtualised computing resources, seemingly limitless capacity and scalability, dynamic provisioning, multi-tenancy, self-service and pay-for-use pricing. Enterprise Architecture can help make the shift to cloud computing smooth
If Cloud computing does not take Enterprise Architecture into consideration, it can be dangerous
Cloud computing may be a fit when the core of internal Enterprise Architecture is mature
I have worked as Enterprise Architect for adopting Cloud Strategy for a4 billion USD company. If you need any help you can reach out to me.
