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• 15 Dec

  

  Written by
  Neil Robinson

  
  

  Category

  • general
  • management
  • strategy
  • uncategorized

  your life’s work: old master or old and past it?

  I stopped at my local Marks & Spencer Food, I just fancied one of their £10 deals. Spotted a guy I used to know. He’d managed the IT department for a large utility. Noticed he was wearing an apron. He was stacking shelves.
  

  Then I suddenly shivered. Have I seen my future. Is this my next big career move. Is this what a lifetime’s technology strategy has in store for people like me?

  Where will all that knowledge go, if its not passed on, how can we move forward. Will the new me never get the chance to learn from my experience? continued over the page… >>

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• 14 Dec

  

  Written by
  Neil Robinson

  
  

  Category

  • banking
  • cloud
  • general
  • management
  • products
  • security
  • strategy
  • uncategorized
  • virtualisation

  storage clouds: a territorial skyline cloud for the cloud?

  When talk turns to the Cloud, the hot ticket currently is the location of information. Security’s no longer the biggest concern, its where data is stored which is key.

  Maybe the future lies in clouds for the cloud itself – local skyline storage clouds…
  

  Cloud players like SalesForce and IBM are looking to their own national storage, but its expensive and inefficient. So why not use a storage Cloud for it? continued over the page… >>

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• 11 Dec

  

  Written by
  Neil Robinson

  
  

  Category

  • cloud
  • general
  • management
  • mobile
  • security
  • social networks
  • strategy

  WikiLeaks: are we witnessing Cyberspace’s Siege of Leningrad?

  This question never seems to go away. When is a freedom fighter not a terrorist?
  Well, the answer of course depends on your perspective.
  

  And nothing is crystallising global social opinion more than the WikiLeaks battle. But its only when we look beyond this that we see the real battle lines.

  Think hard before deciding. Because what is being done is done in your name. continued over the page… >>

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