cloud computing
Built for the cloud or moving to the cloud
Are applications built for the cloud more likely to succees than those being migrated to the cloud?
What does the cloud hold for traditional ERP vendors?
Will cloud computing turn ERP on its head?
Making Dublin a smart city
Interesting piece in Fortune San Francisco gets smart with green technology …in the context of Ireland and its drive for a smart economy and knowledge society. As I stand at bus stops wondering when the next bus is due and I think about the technology which is so easily available I wonder why we are not [...]
Irish government to appoint a CTO?
So the government published its paper: Knowledge Society Strategy: Technology Actions to Support the Smart Economy. There is already plenty of comment – on twitter, in the blogs, on the news and there will be more over the next few days. Comments ranging from ‘a lot of waffle’, ‘telling us what we already know’, ‘where’s [...]
What about those not using social networking?
Twice today I was asked by people who are infrequent or non users of social networking solutions (and blogs) – how do you avoid leaving the non users out? Or, when you are looking at a restaurant recommendation ot a wine recommendation – how valuable is the recommendation, given it is only based on information [...]
Irish firm delivering cloud based accounting solutions
Great report in the Irish Times today of Tony Connolly’s success in Australia in conjunction with Deloittes. This is the type of entrepreneur activity which can get this country back on its feet. Well done Tony! Share on Facebook
Moving on from traditional thinking
I guess it’s challenging for all of us who have worked for the last 25 years. In my final year in Trinity College Dublin I was writing Assembler for the Motorola 68000 chip. The Mac was about to burst on the scene. Since then I have worked in a Professional Service Firm, my own IT [...]
McKinsey – cold shower for the cloud
McKinsey’s report of 15th April re cloud computing seems to be pointing out a few home truths re costs of cloud computing. In fairness there are now so many variations in cloud computing (and more to come) that generalisations become a little pointless. The Techcrunch review of the McKinsey report makes for interesting reading. Seems to [...]
Good positive Microsoft press on web services
Would recommend trying out the mesh (www.mesh.com).