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Think you’re not ready for the cloud? Maybe you’re closer than you think

Your business may already be getting to grips with the fundamental practices needed to bring[...]

Beyond the downturn

By Martin Atherton There is no shortage of business advice at the moment and one[...]

Two men say they’re Jesus….

I had a link to a short video entitled ‘Cloud Computing in Plain English’ sent[...]

You scratch my beak and I’ll scratch yours

Someone quite well up on these matters recently described social networking as “reciprocal altruism”. The[...]

Quick take: Will Borland find a good home with Microfocus?

Having written quite recently on Borland, I felt obliged to comment on its recently planned[...]

Integrated solutions as a service – iSaaS anyone?

Against the background of ever increasing hype around cloud computing, it’s interesting listening to keynotes[...]

Hoard or share? Your call

A long time ago, when I was a wage slave in a computer company, I[...]

Managing Recovery – Why do we still have problems?

Over the course of the last few months I have spent a lot of time[...]

98 months left for decisive climate action?

It was with a heavy heart that I set off to the London Climate Change[...]

Infosec retrospective: time to rejoin the mothership?

What an interesting Infosec! I was asked at the end of this year’s conference, what[...]

Values-based messaging tackles the green gulf

Abraham Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs' was one of the first models that helped me make[...]

Storage systems – How come Microsoft is so popular?

Storage Related Initiatives As can be seen in the figure below the catch all “General[...]

Social computing – start small, think big

Don’t be afraid of social networking and blogs in the office, says Freeform Dynamics’s David[...]

Car scrappage and computer replacement

Well the chancellor has spoken and, frankly, I feel fairly unmoved. I'm no economist, so[...]

Virtualisation more important than Platform?

Reg Barometer This is one of a series of articles which draws on online research[...]

Preparing for Infosec – start with the end in mind

As momentum builds up towards Infosec at the end of this month, I’m reminded of[...]

Cloud computing – the myth and the reality

This article is hosted on an external website. Please click here to view it in[...]

Why Sun Microsystems makes me angry

It’s not often in this job that I feel genuinely cross about an industry situation,[...]

Reading The Big Switch #1 – the economist’s world view

Recently I’ve got into the habit of picking up (largely from the Library) a number[...]

Applications, languages, and tools in 2008-9

This is one of a series of articles which draws on research conducted in partnership[...]

An unjustified poke at social media

When I was a kid, we used to sneer at the children who scuttled indoors[...]

Align green and business strategy, or fail

Call me an idiot if you like, but I fell for one of the oldest[...]

Free tool for design collaboration

A few days ago SmallBizPod was invited to try out a new collaboration took for[...]

The Messaging is The Medium: IBM is down, but not out

Reg Tech Panel Messaging is a thread that runs through IT from top to bottom,[...]