silo-like architectures

English translation: isolated, independent, impenetrable

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English term or phrase:	silo-like architectures
Selected answer:	isolated, independent, impenetrable
Entered by:	Ana Juliá

08:20 Jun 28, 2007

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Marketing / Market Research

English term or phrase: silo-like architectures

In an Adaptive Enterprise, business and IT are linked to drive growth.
IT breaks away from the inflexible, ***silo-like architectures*** of the past to deliver more value to the business.

Ana Juliá KudoZ activity Questions: 3922 (none open) (22 closed without grading) Answers: 1027 Spain
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here: isolated

Explanation:
i.e. applications are independent, isolated and have limited, or no, interecation and connection.

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-06-28 09:28:17 GMT)
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typo: interactiton :)

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Larissa Dinsley
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:22

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(Impenetrable/difficult to access)

Frederika Heden

4 +1

here: isolated

Larissa Dinsley

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(Impenetrable/difficult to access)

Explanation:
A silo is a cylindric construction designed to provide sealed storage, usually for livestock fodder (hay etc). No unwanted air, light or water should be able to reach the contents.

In this context it most likely refers to "sealed" networks and similar, that are hard to reach from the 'outside', because of e.g. software, network or design reasons.

(Sample sentences from the links below)

Example sentence(s):

"However, the software's closed and almost silo-like characteristics make it difficult to conduct collaborations or share materials or activities with people outside the institution"
"Today we have silo-like communications. Information can't easily cross network or domain boundaries.In order to have a unified domain, we need to have interfaces to carry information between one network or domain and another."

Reference: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ers0302/rs/ers03027.p...
Reference: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid7_gci...

Frederika Heden
Sweden
Local time: 17:22
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Swedish

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peer agreement (net): +1

here: isolated

Larissa Dinsley
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Russian,

Ukrainian
PRO pts in category: 4

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