I met with my old friend Steve Tuppen this week who is incredibly sharp with regard to driving cost savings into large IT Service Delivery Contracts. I learned a thing or two about how financial (not capability) drivers are likely to shape IT Architecture in the future. In a nutshell organisations will expect to switch IT suppliers [...]
I suspect there are certainly still a few barriers to large corporates adopting the cloud but the introduction of VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) certainly lowers one of them.
This capability allows organisations to essentially create a satellite network that is linked via industry standard IPSec to their own network. As with most features this is an added [...]
I mentioned in an earlier blog that I would dig deeper into some of the Web 2:0 Architectural patterns. Well I came across a very good web site whichI think shows very simply a web 2:0 mashup.
They are essentially mashing together a database of information (prices of houses sold from the UK Land Registry) with a map, not [...]
I have been off to the States and Canada for the past month hence no blog entries, that’s not to say I have not been doing my usual when I am on a long flight, thinking about past projects or companies that I can extract some lessons learned from.
One such company under financial pressure had blended [...]