cloud computing
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 [...]
web 2.0 – how seriously are we taking it?
Dion Hinchcliffe's talk at web 2.0 Europe Dion reflects on the impact of 4 year's of web 2.0. He focuses on the move from 'push' to 'pull' systems. But much of the question is our readiness/ willingness to embrace and exploit the opportunity. Who creates the value? (The network) How much control do we have [...]
Web 2.0 Expo SF, 2008
Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media) gave a good key note at the web 2.0 Expo in SF, last month (see presentation). He has some tendency towards hyperbole e.g. in speaking of Web 2.0 using such phrases as: ‘a turning point akin to literacy, cities…’. However he has a number of well made and supported points. The [...]