Times within the world of technology have never been more interesting. Over the last few years, those who like to think about the human element of different functions or departments within any organisation will have noticed that the IT team have a tendency towards finding the perfect solution. IT people often very strong on creating [...]
Category Archives: IT
Quick and clean?
21
September
2009
IT’s a busy world, but where is it going?
17
September
2008
For a ‘summer period’, it seems to be a busy time with lots of chatter and a lot of “hot topics” keeping my in-box warm. The problem is that looking so far ahead takes our focus off what we’re actually doing. Cloud computing seems to be everywhere but what is it? I suspect it’s another [...]
Writing Code – Is there a future?
10
September
2008
A visit by a Microsoft guy to talk about development tools got me thinking about this, really as an adjunct to the previous post about Web 2.0. We do need to think about what we are going to do in future. It’s easy to say that we will rely on 3rd party delivered applications, and [...]
Live Mesh – The start of something big?
5
September
2008
Cloud Computing, Software as a Service, Application Service Providers, Virtual Desktops and Live Workspaces. Just some of the terms which have been bandied about over the past few years. With Windows Live Mesh, now available as a Public Beta as part of the ‘Wave 3′ release of Windows Live I sense these technologies coming of [...]
Is there a price to pay for free software?
14
September
2008
I thought that company directors spent some of their time playing golf with their peers as part of “networking”. However it turns out that the modern IT director, such as ours, seems to think that a good time spent networking with his peers involves discussions around relevant topics like “Strategic Resourcing”. It was no surprise [...]
The changing role of the IT department?
10
September
2008
Like me you may see many articles in press and trade magazines, telling of the demise of the IT department. “Change now or be dead in 5 years time”,” Be more aligned to the business to survive”, ” Talk business not technology if you want to keep your job”. I find these of interest but [...]
A killer app
27
September
2008
Compared to my youthful colleagues elsewhere in this blog, I’m old enough to remember the first “Killer App”: that is the application that made us all sit up and say “You know, these computer things actually are pretty useful”. It also made the computer manufacturers say “People will have a reason to buy computers to [...]
Temporary CIO for Hire
24
September
2008
DiData recently announced it is looking to recruit a CIO, not to replace it’s existing CIO but rather to act as a temporary CIO for it’s clients to guide them through the change process as part of their outsourcing deals. My first reaction – is this akin to Mike Ashley employing Denise Wise without Kevin [...]
Never Ending IT
22
September
2008
Last night I was having a bit of a clean out through my ever growing pile of ‘might be needed in the future’ paperwork at home when I came across a phone bill from 1994. I looked at it with fascination, seeing a great illustration of how the world has changed out of all recognition [...]
The Credit Crunch – Cue SaaS for the Masses?
15
September
2008
Your business ISP ain’t what it used to be. The days when the ISPs job was simply to connect you to the internet and provide some webspace are long behind us. Most business ISPs are now able to offer expert IT management, hosted applications and Software as a Service (SaaS) in addition to the more [...]
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