The great cloud joke

Once upon a time, in the cloud kingdom of Cloudalon, there lived a cloud king. One cloudy day this cloud King, who was cloudily named Cloud Cloud the fifth, called his cloud son, the cloud prince Cloud Cloud the sixth, over to his cloud side. “My cloud son,” the cloud king said to cloud prince [...]

IT looking forward

Video recorded at Microsoft tech days, 16 April 2010, following (and referencing) David Bishop at Microsoft’s “Vision of the Future” presentation. Enjoy!

Looking back… and forward

This year has not been easy for many. By all accounts it has been a polarised recession: some of the largest companies have fallen, while for others, business has been booming. The stock markets plummeted only to rebound; organisations have offered themselves up for sale and then decided, actually, they could go it alone; redundancy [...]

Towards dynamic systems management methodologies

I do take my hat off to the people who first put together the IT Infrastructure Library, which (like the end of the cold war) celebrates its twenty-year anniversary this year. It’s one thing to learn, both on the job and with little support, the ‘golden rules’ and best practice principles of any discipline. It’s [...]

Reading The Big Switch #1 – the economist’s world view

Recently I’ve got into the habit of picking up (largely from the Library) a number of books of a certain genre, and ploughing my way through them – in general, it is the ones that are most compelling that will drive me past the first few pages. And so, I currently have, on the bedside [...]

Cloud computing – myth or reality?

If you’re interested in cloud computing and whether there is any substance behind it, you may wish to take a look at this presentation. It was compiled following discussions across the Freeform Dynamics team, and is undoubtedly a work in progress – we shall update our understanding as this area of IT evolves and solidifies. [...]