Tell me a Story
From the earliest years of our lives we are entertained by stories, from the books that our parents read to us as children to the wonderful films created by the entertainment industry. They engage us,...
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Data Visionaries Wanted!
I saw this slide the other day presented by one of our Chief Architects, he was discussing how the relative importance of Infrastructure, Applications and Data has changed over time and how this will ...
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Don’t end up with a Museum of bad IT decisions aka ‘A Data Centre’
I’m fascinated by the pace of change in the technology industry, both in the hardware advances and also in the new applications that are arriving. Many new business applications are built using ...
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Your Supermarket knows more about you than your Doctor
How do we decide when sharing information benefits us, or whether it is an infringement of our personal privacy? This is a big problem, when it’s obvious that we benefit or that we see some tangible...
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This is Pure-ly and simply an ‘about turn’ moment
Imagine my surprise when Pure announced that they will be retro-fitting a new technology into an array with software that wasn’t originally designed for it. Pure’s marketing message has always bee...
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The Pace of Change; a note from Glastonbury Festival
15cm of rain, 12cm of mud, 200,000 people, or should I say 200,000 IP Addresses! There are times in life when I think it’s good to step back and look at the progress that has been made over the las...
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Data Fabric; it’s enabled by End Points, Connections, Services and Applications
Phil Brotherton our VP for the Data Fabric Group introduced me to this way of discussing the layers that make up our Data Fabric Strategy, it really resonated with me so I’ve started to use it i...
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Here’s to all the SysAdmins, today is your day!
SysAdmins are superheroes for the IT infrastructure of an organisation. These are the professionals who design, monitor and maintain systems for performance, who gather and assess information to ident...
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Should I stay or should I go now?
Probably one of the most memorable lines from any song that I remember while growing up in the UK. I was extremely fortunate to have been able to moderate a dinner the other week with colleagues from ...
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Your future role in IT probably doesn’t exist yet
According to the ‘World Economic Forum’, between 2015 and 2020 35% of the core skills you have today will change. What do you think these changes might be? Personally, looking back over my time w...
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