Peter Sondergaard from Gartner, spoke today here at Orange Business Services Orange Business Live 2010 event. He gave an over arching view of the challenges facing business and CIOs today, where – in his words – IT is shifting its focus towards towards balancing risk, cost, growth and innovation. I’ve attempted to catch what he said [...]

It is a bad week for data loss. First, Sidekick, or more specifically Danger (owned and run by Microsoft and operating the service for T-Mobile) lost a large amount of user data. People have warned about the Sidekick service for a while. Essentially, data is stored in the cloud, and not on the device. A [...]

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 [...]

This post carries on from CloudCamp London, and picks up one of the themes of my special guest post on James Govenor’s RedMonk blog. During the second half of the event I shepherded the “standards and interoperability” open space, alongside Matthias Kohl of Zimory. The session started off on potential standards for system images. While that sort of portability [...]

Last Thursday night saw the second CloudCamp in London. The first one spawned: Nailing down the Cloud – A Definition for Cloud Computing? and this one was a sell-out gig, with the venue packed to capacity. The fact that a few hundred people came out on a cold wet London night to discuss Cloud Computing is a [...]