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 [...]

Another hosting provider that exhibited at eCommerce Expo in London was NetBenefit. Mark Stephens and Kristel Scattergood of NetBenefit were kind enough to spend some time in conversation about where they see the challenges and opportunities for users of hosting.   NetBenefit are part of the publicly listed Group NBT plc (LSE:NBT) and have a broad customer [...]

VMWare are very much on the radar at the moment. I’d be following them more closely, but the RSS feed on their website is seriously broken. VMWare put virtualization on the map, and as I digest the input from Interop in New York, and last week’s VMworld 2008, it feels like they are all over the map. [...]