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Anyone who has ready my earlier views on ‘Open Source a Misguided Fervour’ will know that I believe Open Source ICT solutions are not an ICT ‘Silver Bullet’ or practical as an exclusive policy directive. So reflecting back on the UK Government’s record where it first set out its policy on the use of open […]
February 22, 2012
Sharing in Microsoft Office365 is not restricted to users registered in your Office365 profile. Through Microsoft SharePoint Online it is possible to invite external users into your collaborative workspaces and extend your teams securely. Most importantly this can be done at NO extra charge, or at least for the first 50 external users. Microsoft provides […]
February 8, 2012
The debate on Internet freedom of speech and data regulation rumbles on to its next chapter. No sooner have the US attempts to weasel control over the Internet been quashed than the spotlight swings across the pond onto Europe. Up comes ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). Or should I say, ACTA’s long gestation in closed sessions, […]
September 28, 2011
Windows 8, well at least they have not tried to go all marketeee’s on us with another ‘Vista’ nomenclature. That having been said there are far too many similarities to Vista’s early on-ramp messaging for comfort. For those of you who remember the Vista pre-launch marketing and launch events you will recall the predominance of […]
September 7, 2011
Further to my earlier blog on the great experience with Tranquil PC’s home server hardware, The Home Server Challenge, not all has been quiet such plain sailing with their latest hardware and supporting utility mix for WHS2011. Since I was promoting this in my earlier blog I feel obliged to give a heads up to […]
August 17, 2011
Risk Management should not be Like Pouring Cement into the Gearbox of an enterprise. Yet I am continually frustrated by fellow Certified Systems Auditors and Risk Management consultants who err on the side of controls in an unduly cautious attitude to what risk and business is really about. A parallel demonstrating how governance reflects the […]
August 3, 2011
There is hardly ever a meeting now that I go into where discussions at breakouts do not digress into personal computing subjects. Popular ones being security, social media, mobile devices and home user data storage. Herewith a personal angle on the Home Server / data storage discussion. Oh yes, I have been asked why not […]
June 14, 2011
A question that was posed by all the MEP’s I last week in Brussels during the IAMCP (International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners) leadership Summit was – How can we stimulate the innovative entrepreneurialism that is witnessed in the USA? Well there are many micro issue’s some of which were addressed when I last spoke […]
May 25, 2011
The following is a collation reflecting a summary on my notes, my presentation to the audience and my responses to questions at a European Internet Foundation debate held in the European Parliament Brussels on the 25th May 2011. I spoke as I often do with more than one voice, drawing on and taking the opportunity […]
March 24, 2011
Computerworld reports – IT executives expect their support requirements to increase significantly once workers begin using the iPad 2 on the job. This is backed up by the Info tech Research Group in their article 2011 ‘The Year of the Tablet’. The growing acceptance that these are information consumption devices rather than information creation devices […]
February 28, 2011
The biggest barrier to adoption of Cloud Computing methodologies being thrown at me by customers and the industry itself is currently Security. It is like some magic wand. Mention the word security and it is like throwing up a Berlin wall, a line in the sand more like it that should not be crossed. When […]
February 14, 2011
Soft skills are personal attributes that enhance an individual’s interactions versus the more familiar hard skills or education, experience and level of expertise, that tend to be the principle ‘gauges’ in the technology sector. From experience as an employer and working across a number of organisations I would suggest employers are prioritising candidates with more […]
December 28, 2010
Security is a term that was waved in my face almost every time I entered into a discussion on Cloud Computing with clients or vendors when reflecting on the passage of this year. Unfinished business to be taken into a new year 2011. Security sensitivities kindled into a blaze by the persistent percolation of data […]
November 26, 2010
Just back from a snowy Brussels where I was sitting on the European Employment Forum Panel and had the opportunity during the event to put the following points to the Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Laszlo Andor in response to his call for Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive action. Smart Putting energy into taking […]
March 21, 2012
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