A couple of months ago I became the proud owner of an Apple Macbook Air. The little geezer immediately transformed my relationship with a laptop in a whole slew of ways. One way that it particularly seduced me was the delightful combination of my Macbook Air with TV Shows downloaded…
Day three at the SIFMA conference, and several key themes have emerged – this year’s most urgent issues for financial services IT can be grouped under the following umbrellas:
Extreme Agility
If we now look at the rising expectations of the Facebook and GrandTheftAuto generation – and the…
SIFMA, day two. What have I learned? The Grand Theft Auto network incorporates the Cisco Nexus 7000. Operational features preventing human error-like blinking port lights to guide cable swaps are key.
What does this have to do with SIFMA? We all know how incredibly intense the world of banking has…
Apparently the Wall Street technology budgets are in rude health, that is if the array of attention-grabbing gimicks at SIFMA today are anything to go by. Nintendo Wiis; iPod Touch; young ladies in Pink Fairy costumes and our very own Dave Kirby will be thrilled to hear that one messaging…
As I gear up to attend and blog from this year’s SIFMA Technology Management Conference , I thought I’d take a moment between trips to the shops to find something comfortable to wear in this 100 degree heat to blog about some of the trends and top-of-mind issues I…
Here is a link to an exclusive CMDB user group on Facebook. Facebook already has several ITIL and itSMF groups that have interesting content. So I though it may be interesting to tap into this forum. The idea of this group is for people to share their ideas and experiences…
On Wednesday night, we hosted a wine tasting event for a number of customers and prospects at Claridges . The event was very well attended, to the point that we had an unexpected “extra” guest (thanks Mark!), putting the arrangements into minor disarray – but nothing that the Claridges…
Virtualisation in the data center clearly requires management…and in particular it heightens the importance of clear and precise technology or business service context – see for example Does B-hive Acquisition Make VMware a Cloud Vendor? in which James Staten, principal analyst with Forrester Research, “lauds another feature of B-hive’s…
It’s often hard for people outside of the slightly specialised world of distributed computing and data centres to get their heads around quite how critical and complex they have become. So it was a bittersweet moment to find this article in The Economist last week – Buy our stuff, save the planet.
Nick Carr’s blog recently reported on the current trend to package servers in shipping containers.
In this case, Microsoft plan to put 220 (wow!) shipping containers into the first floor of a new data centre. The past reports I have seen on using shipping containers as a means…
