The Blog sphere and the news has plenty of pieces on HP acquiring EDS, with a lot of speculation on what that means. Indeed there are so many pieces on these two topics that I will break with my usual habit of providing a couple of urls so you can see what is being said, and instead I have provided a list of interesting ones below. What strikes me is that most of the comment …

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Yup I am a week or so late in keeping up with my life, and sure feels that way with all the things going on. The industry, events, the blogsphere, are all in hyper drive, and most of all, for keeping me personally busy, so are the users. Two things seem to be happening; the first is the business people are now pushing IT for their response and contribution to a changing business environment, and …

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I asked my colleague Jesper Krakhede in the Security practice if he would share some of the thinking he discussed with me in respect to the challenges he sees and the need for us to change our attitude and responses in applying security in our new world: Working in the field of security is like waking up every morning and be surprised you are still alive. Something that is foolproof and impossible to crack one …

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I have been noticing that Facebook, the social network that I have been using most, seems to be getting a little ‘tired’, there are some missing friends, some communities are slowing down, and even some of the social apps I like to use such as Blogfriends are packing up. I guess it’s a mix of too many social networks, fashion change, or maybe a move towards using smaller better focused networks through using Ning. All …

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It has been a theme of mine, and some others, that the whole point of good solution design for Web 2.0 is people centric in comparison to the previous generations of technology. Starting with Mainframes, moving through Minis and into PC Networks each preceding generation has had the technology it was named after at the centre of any solution design. Accordingly the logic, and I expect most people’s natural reaction, is to say that the …

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A long time ago a colleague said that his ideal would be a job where every day you started anew with nothing from the past intruding on your new day. I guess that’s a fair description of the way most of us regard our relationship to ‘legacy’ systems? Not surprisingly this came up in a survey of Retailers, who regarded their legacy systems as the biggest barrier to their development of cross channel online systems, …

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Every now and then I, like many of us, like to take a step back, slow down, and have a good old think about what’s really going on. Preferably on a summer evening with some good company and a glass of something cold – but I’m digressing. It never ceases to amaze me how new ways of working emerge when information and services, from many different sources, are available to anyone, anytime, anywhere. What’s really …

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With SAP Sapphire coming up it was only natural to find myself talking with my colleagues Jonathan who leads the UK practice and Frank who leads the Dutch practice about the changes and challenges in the ERP world. Not surprisingly both had some clear opinions based on their work and I suggested that both should share them via guest pieces on the CTO Blog. The first is from Jonathan. I have been working with SAP …

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Hands up all those who knew that we have just had the largest exercise ever to test the preparedness for a cyber storm attack on the communication infrastructure of ‘western civilisation’? You didn’t know about this? Cyberstorm II, as it is named, was organised by the US Department of Homeland Security to test how well IT Infrastructures and Government agencies would survive in the event of a determined cyber attack designed to break the Internet, …

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