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In my conversations with some of the Google Enterprise sales people last week in Dublin, one of the themes that came up again and again is the challenge of selling Cloud into traditional IT departments. The bottom line is that it's a major threat if your personal line of business is providing networks, servers, PCs … Continue reading Turkeys voting for Christmas

Project achievements included: - continuation of the core network project - and of the printing procurement (who'd have thought we had so many already) - and of the authentication project - and some more structure on the Docs roll-out Additionally: - two days spent at the Europlex, meeting with Googlers and Google Clients - and … Continue reading Weeknote 22 – in which I appeared on telly

A very surreal day yesterday which culminated in sitting in a Dublin hotel room watching myself on TV. If you missed it, you should be able to find it here: http://www.channel4.com/news/microsoft-cloud-to-revolutionise-computing

Project achievements included: - new core fibre installed in Store Street - printing project audit underway - kick-off for new authentication infrastructure - investigations began for exploring Picasa on a corporate basis Additionally: - attended the CIO Summit, and interviewed for CIO.co.uk - also interviewed for CIT Magazine Next week in one word: Dublin

I commented on Twitter yesterday that it seemed from recent experiences, the majority of CIOs don't get Social Media and the Web 2.0 thing. There were a few comments - one saying that this probably was the case across most boardrooms, and another asking why did it matter? In his talk at Google Atmosphere last … Continue reading Show your working

An interesting day spent at the first UK CIO Summit. Much conversation about the impact of consumerization in software services (Cloud) and also in terms of devices (Apple in particular), and an underlying assumption that both would lead to lower costs. Whilst commoditization of software services in the world of SaaS undeniably does lead to … Continue reading The costs of consumer devices

I lost my Oyster card at the weekend (for those of you outside of London, Oyster is the branding of London Transport's contactless ticketing technology). Years ago I lost an old cardboard-and-magnetic-tape season ticket, and remember the grilling that I received at the station ticket office to ensure that I wasn't simply trying to defraud … Continue reading Automating client service

Project achievements this week: - fibre vertical cabling installed in London office - positioning work re-scoped - archive solutions investigation underway - Creative Suite work moved on Additionally: - presented at Atmosphere Next week in one word: October (already!)