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Monthly Archives: March 2010
The Singularity University – Technology that creates exponential growth
About a year back there was a very popular slide show going around about the consequences of change. One of the ‘facts’, it claimed, was that owing to the incredible rate of change in the industry, most of the content from a three year degree course on technology would be out of date by the time the course actually finished. Of course a lot would depend on how up to date the teaching and the …
Grasping the single point that is powering a lot of the change
Regular readers – and thank you, as ever, for your time – will know that I have a passion for trying to dig into a topic to find the one or two key points that, once you find them, provide real clarity of insight into what is actually happening. I have a great intellectual curiosity about technology, how it is used and what the benefit of it actually is. Although, I read widely, I don’t …
Three Conferences; MWC, RSA Security Conference and CeBIT – what did we see and what can we learn from them?
It has been one of those interesting points in the year when three big industry events occur almost at the same time, and it is possible to make some interesting comparisons. First we had Mobile World Congress providing some illuminating insights into how the focus of the mobile industry has changed from devices and their specifications to the content delivery model. If you want a more detailed look at how I see this change developing …
(Information Technology) + (Business Technology) ÷ Clouds = Infostructure
Relax! It’s not meant to be a real formula, just a way of trying to think about the relationship between all of these. There is a great deal of growing interest in cloud services for the enterprise and more factors are coming into the mix expected to transform enterprises and impact their business models. Over the last few months – together with my colleagues – we have been closely examining what’s really happening, why it’s …
Mobile World Congress 2010 – behind the obvious …
Mobility has seen fast growth and been a hot topic the in last couple of years and at Mobile World Congress this year, it turned a corner and moved beyond being just a procession of breakthrough devices and new forms of wireless. The question is who noticed this in the IT or enterprise IT community and will they make the connection in terms of the enterprise user and models for cloud delivery? The focus, announcements …




