I was very surprised and gratified last Wednesday to find how many of you had all been kind enough to vote again this year for the CTOblog in the annual Computer Weekly competition, I was even more surprised to find against a strong field of...
Read moreBack around 1990 I remember my amazement at learning that Iceland had the largest router network of any European business or government, at around 50 routers. There was a pretty sensible explanation for this, given the low density of the population...
Read moreCurrently my life is full of puzzled people from various sections of the IT community asking for enlightenment on ‘cloud technology’. Their puzzlement usually stems from the simple fact that they can’t make a whole lot of sense about when, and...
Read moreI’ve wanted to do a post on the growing recognition of a shift towards ‘externalisation’ or ‘edge’ based systems - if you can call them systems at all - but couldn’t quite think of a topical reason to raise the subject. There’s a saying...
Read moreBusiness Prevention. Such a little trendy consulting theme that nowadays everybody seems to have an opinion about. The magazines and blogs are full of noncommittal chatter about the topic. But just try to discuss tangible action. Then suddenly nobody...
Read moreEvery now and then you hear something that really makes you think! Well, it happened to me when I had Cisco, EMC, and VMware, talk me through their V-Block technology. It’s the launch product for their Virtual Computing Environment coalition, or...
Read moreIt’s been an interesting, but exhausting week. I have been at Oracle Open World in San Francisco, SAP TechHead in Phoenix and for further contrast last week, I was at Cordys Cordial Cloudburst in the Netherlands. As a result, I have seen the way...
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