In other words, CITOs may avoid taking the lead on enterprise architecture because it can lead to intense negative reactions.

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The process will guide both strategic and operational IRM, IT planning, and the Enterprise Architecture by integrating the agency's IRM plans, strategic and performance plans prepared pursuant to the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, financial management plans prepared pursuant to the Chief Financial Officer Act of 1990 (31 U.S.C. 902a5), acquisition under the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994, and the agency's budget formulation and execution processes.

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But the rise of super fast, all-Flash storage systems, which have been the traditional bottleneck of entreprise information systems, will have serious consequences on the architecture of the next generation enterprise IT.

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For example, at the same time that the Navy has stood up a cyber command to protect its warfighting nets, it has begun implementing a new information architecture called the Next Generation Enterprise Network likely to be more vulnerable to hackers and spies.

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From the looks of it, new BB10 devices will not be supported by the existing BlackBerry Enterprise Sever architecture.

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