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Category Archives: Cloud
Data Centre World #dcwexpo
Yesterday Andrew and I had some fun walking around Data Centre World Expo at Olympia in London. What we were looking at were hundreds of stands of the kit that you use to run a data centre, the plant, the cooling, flooring the wiring all the real… Continue reading
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What does the future look like
Yesterday I did a turn for a great group of CTOs associated to a variety of hedge funds. As promised here is my deck from the day. The Future of IT View more presentations from Simon May. Continue reading
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The Future
I quite often get asked to talk about what the future will be like and this video is excellent, it shows lots of augmented reality and the like but what really inspires me is the context computing you throughout. Switch context, switch interface…. Continue reading
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Me, talking cloud, in the Telegraph
A few weeks ago I was in a Telegraph supplement talking about cloud. Here’s the online version of the article on the Telegraph (UK national newspaper) website. Continue reading
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The basics of Windows Azure for IT Pros
Windows Azure has now been around long enough to be a mature platform for building services on and as such IT Professionals are being asked to look at the service. Of course IT Pros are looking for slightly different things from a platform than others…. Continue reading
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Cloud Adoption in SMEs
One of our UK TechNet readers, Christopher Latham, wrote to me a couple of weeks ago looking for help with some research he’s undertaking for his MSc Dissertation and the subject “ Cloud Computing adoption in SMEs” is something that I’m really … Continue reading
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How do you support consumerisation of IT
Delivering an environment where people are able to bring their own devices into the office and use them is certainly one of the biggest trends of our time and it’s proving to be one of the hardest things to support. To quote Forrest Gump “y… Continue reading
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Notes from The Cloud Circle
Hi folks I’ve just jumped off stage and as promised here are a load of links about what I’ve just talked about, some of the companies I highlighted and other useful resources. After the links you’ll find a SkyDrive based copy of the….. Continue reading
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Why monitor Windows Azure with System Center?
One of the questions that I often get into when talking with folks normally have a dev head on around Windows Azure is why you’d want to be able to monitor a Windows Azure application with System Center and why you wouldn’t just build a bespoke mon… Continue reading
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Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2
One of the questions I get asked constantly is about the safety of placing your data into particular environments, so I was quite pleased when I noticed that we’d released the Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2 which helps you to … Continue reading
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