I was chatting at the Cloud Circle event last night to a chap from one of the more affluent London Borough councils about the flagellation of the public sector that we are currently seeing in the UK as if the reason why the international banking system collapsed was because of spending a bit too much … Continue reading The public/private myth
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So here is the deal. Tonight I presented to a couple of hundred of my industry peers. I asked the question "How many people have got a Twitter account?". About a half raised their hands. "How many people actually use Twitter?". About (at best) ten percent of the hands remained aloft. "How many people have … Continue reading The problem with IT
I saw an article yesterday that said that information security professionals believe that Cloud services should be assessed in the same way as any other outsourcing exercise. Whilst the need for due diligence is absolutely crucial, I question if the same metrics and parameters can be applied in the Cloud era, and more if a … Continue reading Vested interests
Project achievements this week included: - reviewing UC consulting proposals - sign off for the replacement of the infamous yellow card system - risk analysis for BCP review And not forgetting: - a week with Josh from NYC in the London office - slidedeckette prepared for next week's Cloud Circle cameo... - ...a full deck … Continue reading Weeknote 38: where's spring?
There's a lot of debate about what is cloud and what isn't. So I've been thinking about ways of classifying that allow discussion around the ambiguity, and inspired by a regular item from the BBC's Top Gear show, I give you the Cloud Report. Four levels of classification - - Land-based are products and services … Continue reading The Cloud Report
Economies of scale aren't an inevitability. It's a subject I've written about in the past, and one that I've been putting my mind to again recently. In particular, how collaborative technologies can help alleviate the diseconomies of scale that can so often occur when a company increases its headcount. From personal experience this is the … Continue reading Scaling
Project achievements this week included: - sign off (in principal) for printing budget - slowly ironing out the (not insubstantial creases) in the AD work - proposals received for the Yellow Card replacement... - ...and for consulting on the Facilitating Conversations initiative - wrapped up the last of the re-cabling And also - quality time … Continue reading Weeknote 37 – Tired and emotional…
For those of us of a certain age, a remarkable period in British technology history occurred during our formative years in the 1980s. Spearheaded by the work of two electronics companies, Sinclair Research and Acorn, many of us had our first experiences if computing on one of the devices home grown in the UK by … Continue reading The British microcomputer legacy
I had lunch today with an old friend who last year sold the company that he and a few partners built up over the past ten years to a big corporate. They are now experiencing what it is like to with in a big corporate after years of being an SME. One of the things … Continue reading For the corporate good
There has been significant PR activity in the past few days as HP have announced a series of mobile/tablet products based on the webOS that they acquired with the purchase of Palm last year. Punditry is the work of fools, so I feel well qualified to comment... Back in November I saw the head of … Continue reading Mobile punditry
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