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Monthly Archives: February 2011
RSA Conference redefines security for clouds; US and EU redefine security for data centres!
At the beginning of the week I had made a note to examine the latest views on security presented at the annual RSA Conference 2011. I noticed that the Cloud Security Alliance Summit who were present at the RSA Conference running their own stream had the US government’s CIO Vivek Kundra talking about moving government data into ‘the cloud’. It certainly sounded as though he was confident on the data security front, and his presentation …
The Hammers & Nails of BPM
I am preparing for a panel debate and a brief case presentation at the upcoming BPM Gartner Summit in London. The theme of the summit is “Making it happen: Driving high performance results beyond the hype”. And although it makes you think of airport billboards, it has a promising, pragmatic tone. Let’s hope it works out, because you see: every now and then when the like-minded of our industry meet, they seem to be tempted …
Mobile World Congress or Personal Mobility Ecosystem?
I usually expect that the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) will raise some interesting points, but this year before the event even started the industry had been shaken up. ‘Is there anything left for the Mobile World Congress 2011?’ asked Trusted Reviews, answering its own question with an excellent review of all the products due to be announced as well as some comments on the development of so called ‘super phones’ and ‘tablets’ that take capabilities up …
The next generation data centre
My post on January 4th ‘The new data centre is not your current one virtualized’ resulted in quite a lot of people asking to know more at subsequent meetings or even by email (curiously I seem to get more direct email follow ups now and very few interactive comments – wonder if that’s because the mails are much more personal questions?) So here is a further piece that I had written on the topic for the …
2011: Facing the outcome of what the Internet has changed
You may remember back at the time of the first internet boom the popular phrase ‘the internet changes everything’, and how it appeared it hadn’t when the bus arrived. Today, a decade in real-time and several generations in technology time, it seems that the phrase had some truth in it, so I was surprised to read at the History News Network (tagline: ‘Because the past is the present, and the future too’), Marshall Poe telling …




