August 21, 2026 Posted in Data Migration, Datacenter, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Integration, Investment Optimization

There is a common requirement to migrate datacenter from on-premises to cloud.

During my consulting career, I led several on-premises datacenter migrations. Additionally, these projects targeted financial, utilities, and transportation organizations.

To give you a big-picture view, I outline the datacenter structure.

The datacenter structure includes racks, power bus, cooling towers, networking gear, air handling units, backup generation, and water storage. This layout supports power distribution, environmental control, and resilience. Understanding how these elements interact helps operators plan capacity and respond to changes.

Within each rack, components such as network switches, cable management, servers, and cooling modules exist...

August 20, 2026 Posted in Blogs, Data Architecture, Data Migration, Database, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Integration

I would like to provide a data architecture summary briefly. Additionally, it reflects my long-term working practices in this area.

Data Architecture and Governance:

• Data governance involves strategies, policies, processes and procedures, collaboration, tools, audit and metrics, etc. For detail info, please refer to Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance.
• Data quality includes data validation, foreign keys, constraints and data cleansing. Please refer to 10 Best Practices in Database Schema Design.
• Metadata management involves schema design, data linage, API contracts, etc. Building a Database-driven Application Framework includes good references.
• Toolbox: MS Purview, Ataccama, Denodo

Data Modeling:

• UML: describe the relationship among objects, no emphasize o...

September 16, 2024 Posted in AI, ChatGPT

Thanks for the powerful ChatGPT which understands the context of a large document! Today, we will explore how to convert a Word document into PowerPoint presentation. You will enjoy the summarized bullet points and slides by ChatGPT. 🙂

I usually create PowerPoint presentation based on the solution design document that I created earlier. It may require some efforts to summarize the document and put bullets into PowerPoint. Since ChatGPT understands the context and it’s free of charge, why don’t we utilize ChatGPT to help here?

Here are your prerequisite tools:

1. ChatGPT;
2. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) – You need install it if you don’t have;
3. VS Code extension: Marp for VS Code – You need install it if you don’t have.

Here are the steps: