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:

TechwiseTV is running ran a webinar on UC and collaboration, together with a real-time conversation via Twitter, (under the tag #twtv): “Pushing the Boundaries of Collaboration” I am of the view that effective communication and collaboration tools are the best competitive weapon that any business can have. As the description of the webinar said, “[they] overcome the technology walls [...]

A comment from Chris of Cohesiveft, reminded me that an update is due on London CloudCamp. The notional October meeting is now actually happening in November, details here. It kicks off at 6pm with drinks and registration, followed by a series of lightening talks, then 3 ‘open spaces’ discussions. Expect a who’s who of the UK [...]

A huge number of events on in the UK in the next few weeks. Right now the Telecoms Show is going on over in Olympia. Next week sees IP’08 and VM’08 (the UK’s first dedicated Virtualisation Event) – register for one and get in to both. IP’08 is in its third year and is growing from strength to strength. [...]

Cloud Computing holds the potential to transform business IT, or at least the ownership of the infrastructure. The last CloudCamp was a must-attend event for anyone in the Cloud Computing world (write up at Redcatco: “Living in the cloud computing“). For compute-intensive applications, Amazon, Google and others are making a scale of infrastructure available that most businesses would [...]