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Acheivements this week included: - Presenting and being a panellist at the Cloud Circle Forum... - ...and picking up some interesting contacts along the way - Continuing the 2012 financial year planning process - Meeting with Onalytica - A bit of manager induction training... - ... and a day learning about inclusion Next week: Tech.Days … Continue reading Weeknote 51: in front of an audience

I have been hit by a mini-spate of social network spam in the last 24 hours, and it's reminded me that the most effective way to propagate crap on the Internet is by using the easily-manipulated people using it. Prey on fear, insecurity or greed, and you'll almost certainly have success. Combine two or more … Continue reading Human-powered viruses

I've recorded a short whiteboard session to explain some thinking behind a 2 by 2 matrix to help determine what Cloud approaches might be appropriate to what business circumstance. 2x2s are the stock in trade of the management consulting industry - there is a risk of over-simplification, but hopefully I tread a reasonable balance. Appreciate … Continue reading Approaches to Cloud

Achievements this week included: - participation in a number of the 2012 "Big Bet" strategic planning sessions - further catch ups with people across the team - the first evangelist team get together - getting started on the performance review process - attending the UK Manager offsite (Reading Football Stadium isn't like football stadia I … Continue reading Weeknote 50: five day week

Maybe this has been staring me in the face for some time now, but in recent conversations I have started to realise that the economics of Cloud make for a deeply profound change for suppliers in the IT industry. First a bit of clarification. Private cloud - essentially setting up and managing a flexible, virtualised … Continue reading Sharing risk & reward

After maybe a year of gestation, Google have announced the launch of the Google Chromebook. It's an interesting product concept - essentially an operating system that is "no more" than a browser. In some ways, it could be regarded as a new iteration of thin client computing, where processing is essentially kept central, and certainly … Continue reading Chromebook

We are entering a world where the device is less important than it ever has been - the browser (and HTML 5) is the way in which applications of the future are being developed, and the whole point of such open standards is that they should allow for operation on any (compliant) platform. And yet, … Continue reading The importance of the device

Achievements this week included: - feeding research insight into the beginning of the new financial year planning process - finalising the presentation for the Cloud Circle Forum - review catch up with Mark (my new boss) - beginning of thoughts about potential missing audiences (who makes decisions about application platforms? who makes decisions about software … Continue reading Weeknote 49: working week normality (almost)

There has been a lot of coverage in the last 12 months or so about the impact that "Apps" are having on the world. Most of the attention has been focused on the mobile world, but already today there are a number of competing marketplaces for the sale and/or distribution of software to different platforms. … Continue reading Marketplaces