Ninety percent of what I build is made of home salvaged architecture ? pieces of a house or a business. Every one is different ? they're one-of-a-kind pieces, you'd say.

Today's enterprise IT architecture is about integrating systems to meet business needs. Consequently, IT architects can't -- and don't -- live in a vacuum. To address that reality, Catalyst Conference 2006 will delve into strategic infrastructure technologies with the depth to which our clients have grown accustomed. With the larger number of Cross-Cutting Concerns sessions, we'll also clearly illustrate how these technologies relate to each other, and how roles, geographies, and business processes intersect within an enterprise.

The new architecture provides us a more unified, efficient IT platform to support our core business applications that keep our company up and running. We selected HP as our provider of infrastructure and production technologies because of the company's great products, commitment to innovation and its broad technical expertise that all continually meet and exceed our high standards.

The new architecture provides us a more unified, efficient IT platform to support our core business applications that keep our company up and running.

It's all about people and architecture. Business drivers may change, underwriting and policy administration changes may simultaneously occur, but if you keep them in synch, I don't consider this any more risk. In fact, I consider less risk than older platforms or ways of computing. You have to be clear about your architecture.

Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes