By One of the really great parts of my job is the way casual conversations with colleagues result in finding something interesting. In this case it was about the challenges of ‘services’ not meaning as in ‘services’ in SOA, but as business...
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Managing Identities, and Data – whose responsibility?
3CommentsA couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about people needing privacy, which generated some interest and comments. It roused a lot of interest because, as I suspected, the computer security side is reasonably understood and under control. This post...
Read moreHaussmannisation
This may come as a surprise from a Chief Technology Officer, but in my family I am not exactly seen as a handyman. When it comes to construction skills, I am more like the laugh of the town. My brother effortlessly builds entire kitchens and just for...
Read moreComputers need Security; People need Privacy
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, following some sessions with various teams working on how government can make better use of technology to deliver their services to citizens. However, the same principle comes up pretty rapidly in...
Read moreWriting better software faster
I am most happy to introduce you to my colleague Sander Hoogendoorn. He wrote this guest blog-item - and an accompanying white paper - about one of the biggest challenges in our profession: how to produce better solutions for the business in a faster...
Read moreSOA is not dead, but it is Transformed
I realise that I’m guilty of using the phrase ‘really understand’ twice in post titles in the last month and started to think the same way for this post too. The point I keep struggling with, is thinking of familiar, well-understood existing...
Read moreCloud Illusions
Recently I sat down with several of the colleagues and we were discussing the idea of cloud computing. Without going into details of what cloud computing is, let’s think about what they imply for a moment. In all previous incarnations of computing...
Read moreTop Industry Vendors give their views on Clouds
I kept an eye on a recent cloud event about cloud computing in New York in early August hoping that some signs of maturity might be appearing across the industry in terms of the approach to defining and implementing clouds. Sadly I didn’t see that,...
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