An article in The Australian from Tuesday (heck, dontcha just love the global world we live in) talks about SaaS provider NetSuite rejecting Google Apps on the grounds of Google's terms of service regarding mining of data. This shows one of the key issues that Cloud/SaaS is starting to open up - that of information … Continue reading Changing models of security…
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Well, not too often that a blog post will be titled in homage to a song by Russ Abbot.... I spent last Thursday at Google Atmosphere, a day long, business-focused event looking at cloud computing held just down the road at the Bloomsbury Street Hotel. Key speakers included journalist Nicholas Carr, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, … Continue reading I love a party with an Atmosphere…
A few days whilst I moved DNS around to enable a Google Apps environment on my domain. Learned more about A and MX records and CNAMES than I could ever wish for... but all now seems to be up and running again.
The new phone has got me thinking about how visions of the technology of the future go through a strange pattern of appearing to be wild and outlandish, and then suddenly somewhat quaint and of their own time. I've never really been much of a science fiction fan (for those of you who are not … Continue reading Visions of the future
After over 12 years, for the first time I have bought myself a new personal mobile phone that wasn't built by Nokia. The main driver for me to change was, in the end, the availability of Spotify Mobile, and that combined with my increasing use of services from Google has led me to an HTC … Continue reading Ditching Nokia…
Spent my Tuesday this week as a client in my own company as a delegate at a Unified Communications event run by IDC and HP at the wonderful Gallery. Lots of talk about video conferencing, which wasn't too much of a surprise as Tandberg were also sponsors. What it's made me realise is the extent … Continue reading Changing Behaviours not Processes
Another topic of discussion at the Bathwick session yesterday was how the emerging world of SaaS and Cloud might impact on the future of CIO roles. In a world where technologists are no longer required to purchase what are fully-functioning business services, why have a CIO? For me, the value in an internal group to … Continue reading Wither the CIO?
An interesting breakfast briefing run by the Bathwick Group yesterday morning looking at the subject of Cloud Computing. The topic is suitably amorphous in definition, but much of the conversation focused on Software as a Service (interestingly, few seemed that interested in the utility computing services like Amazon's EC2). One thread that allowed me to … Continue reading Getting the right people to pay…
After nine months work, the project to improve our mobile provision in the UK is at last drawing to a close. The final remaining users to be migrated were the handful of iPhone users, for whom the transition to the new BlackBerry devices was one that demonstrated a real sense of loss. Apple undoubtedly can … Continue reading Why BlackBerrys beat Apples at business (for the time being)
An interesting chat with Rico at breakfast this morning when we touched on the challenges of rationalisation and centralisation in organisations. Some of our clients are reacting to the current economy (or maybe using it as an excuse) to centralise services so that they can achieve "economies of scale". The two things that we reflected … Continue reading Diseconomies of scale
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