This Tuesday’s TechCrunch Geek n Rolla event included a presentation by Joe Drumgoole, “get of of my cloud.” It probably steered between too technical for non-tech folks and not technical enough for the techies. Launching a start up on a cloud infrastructure makes good economic sense – it’s a success-based cost model. The same holds true for start up [...]

Today was CloudForce in London – SalesForce.com’s big event, which is touring the world, and touted as “your chance to get the insight you need to take advantage of cloud computing and salesforce.com applications in 2009.” And that’s probably where the problem starts. There wasn’t much cloud on show, at least not cloud computing as I [...]

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a London SharePoint user group meeting at Microsoft’s offices in Victoria London. Michael Noel of Convergent Computing gave an excellent overview of building the perfect SharePoint farm. Michael is one of the authors of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, and well know for his SharePoint expertise. He did a walkthrough [...]

Recently I met up with Christopher Barrow at Avaya’s Guildford offices to talk through Avaya’s latest moves, and the evolving world of communications enabled business processes. Chris is an Avaya old hand, having been with the company through its many iterations, most recently as Product Marketing Manager for Avaya in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) [...]

A little while back Britannic Technologies held their 5th Annual Convergence Summit. The wonderful surroundings of Mercedes-Benz World, in Surrey, provided a high tech back drop to a very high tech day. There were a number of guest speakers and I’ll call out some noteworthy points they made: