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Category Archives: Cloud
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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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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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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The future of IT for MSPs
Today I presentated to a group of about a thousand managed service providers about Microsoft’s cloud and what it means for the future of IT. I though I’d throw up this post to provide some extra resources like the deck embedded below that I u… Continue reading
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A tour of Microsoft’s Datacentres
A few weeks ago now we made the following video tour of our Datacentres available for all to see on the GFS website and also on YouTube. At the time I forgot to post it but having just happened across it I thought it worth sharing. I consta… Continue reading
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Resources for IT Apprentices
Today I went to talk to a group of IT Apprentices at QA’s centre in Birmingham, thanks for a good day guys and especially to Lorette who organised the day. If you aren’t sure what apprentices are then you should find out more about IT Apprent… Continue reading
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The changing IT landscape and the evolving role of IT in the Enterprise
I’ve just done a talk at the Cloud Circle Forum about the future of IT and how two of the current big trends, consumerisation and cloud computing are going to change the IT department. Here are some resources that I … Continue reading
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3 new heroes in next generation IT Departments
I’ve already highlighted how IT departments are going to change over the next few years a few times and what some people in those departments are going to be doing as their roles inevitably change but there are going to be some new roles that app… Continue reading
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How the public cloud affects your IT Department
No one can fail to see how much impact the ideas of cloud are having on our organisations and as IT Professionals the most direct impact we feel is on us, on those we work with, on our IT Department. It doesn’t matter whether your “IT”, “… Continue reading
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