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Yearly Archives: 2008
Using up your online ‘cred’
I think Microsoft have done a nice job in their upgrades/ fixes to Live. However I think they face major challenges in trying to establish significant presence as a 'social network' partner. My own experience to date has been that having an established presence with Linkedin, Facebook and Plaxo – people do not want to hear from me suggesting they subscribe to another presence. Presumably, like me, they are inundated with invitations to subscribe to sites.
What’s in azure right now?
Attended great presentation by David Chappell
at Microsoft in Dublin this morning. Fascinating comparison of the offerings from SalesForce, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Interesting explanation of Microsoft's focus on providing a platform in this version of Azure to enable us to build the next 'Facebook'.
Explained why cannot migrate classic enterprise applications to this Azure platform. The Azure platform uses hierarchical database structures (scalable) – not relational database as would be required to support MSQ SQL Server based applications.
Interesting discussion about the difficulties of naming new Microsoft products/ solutions.
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web 3.0
In his recent post Neil Robinson provided an excellent commentary on the development through web 1.0 to web 2.0 to web 3.0. While I have often simplified 2.0 as against 1.0 by describing 2.0 as 'read/write web' Neil more correctly points out the change in the role of the server in 2.0. His description of 3.0 – the internet processing constantly as we interact with it, moves us on significantly. Excellent short post.
Storage and the cloud
In his article Scott provides very positive feedback on the data storage options with www.azure.com. While Scott is careful to provide balance in picking out a number of specific strengths of the other reviewed solutions – Amazon and Google – he certainly makes a strong case of azure. Would depend on what's more important in your own implementation.
Great site, Mr President elect
The use of the internet and web 2.0 technology by President elect Obama and his team is well documented. Have a look at the site: http://change.gov/. What a great way to communicate appointments, policy ideas and create a welcoming atmosphere – encouraging people to contribute their views. Seems to me that we could do with something similar, given the current economic challenges for the artist formerly known as Celtic Tiger.
Changing roles in the cloud
As a consulting & implementation partner we’ve been thinking through the impact of the cloud – how consulting services will be perceived in the cloud environment. If you sign up to a utility type model then where are the traditional consulting services factored in? I think there are a number of possibilities. Potentially there will be more pressure on clients to accept more ‘out of the box’ functionality – with less consulting services. Potentially, because the client is no longer looking at a large outlay on hardware and software licensing upfront, some projects may get started more easily. Potentially there will be far greater opportunities to deliver truly web enabled business solutions, rather than solutions which are limited to the internal organisation itself.
The cloud – or business applications hosted and managed in the cloud – raises all sorts of questions for traditional IT organisations. Seems to me there is already a move towards decentralisation – in the area of collaboration solutions. Employees want to use social networking type solutions – and have interchange between corporate and non corporate type networks. Would seem all businesses will need IT professionals with the skills and knowledge to know what is possible – to advise/ support the business in entering into different contractual arrangements. However the traditional control model may no longer apply.
a national CTO
Seems incoming President Obama is considering appointment of a CTO for the US. Not that surprising when you remember how effectively the Obama campaign used technology in the case to the White House. But perhaps we could benefit from following this idea in Ireland – as we look to up our ranking in the R&D world. Undoubtedly we have made real progress in areas such as ROS. However there continune to be opportunities to streamline how the citizen and businesses interact with government.
Web 2.0 coming of age
Interesting commentary in Irish Times today (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2008/1121/1227137519515.html) re Web 2.0. Without doubt web 2.0 is one of the areas companies will look to 'make IT pay'. There are real opportunities for payback on previous investments in IT through exploiting relatively cheap investments in web 2.0. An excellent example is the number of companies who already have copies of WSS 3.0 (Windows SharePoint Services) but are not using it. This is the foundation for SharePoint and includes lots of functionality which can be deployed across organisations to support collaboration, teamwork, document management, knowledge management.
Everything we see internationally suggests that Irish business should be looking to drive the adoption of enterprise 2.0 and web 2.0.