Over the course of the last few years no part of the IT landscape has developed as rapidly as that of storage and storage management. Even the rapidly developing virtualisation sectors would struggle to keep pace with the speed of change in the...

I had some interesting conversations this week at an analyst meeting focused around SaaS. Nothing too surprising that this should be the subject of the day as it was the first time that Salesforce.com had held an analyst pow-wow in Europe. Now...

I had a most enjoyable session with Jon Pyke, Chief Strategy Officer with Cordys, Jan Baan's (relatively) new outfit this week. I attended the UK 'coming out' lunch a few months ago but I have to admit that the messaging didn't quite get through...

This week news of not one, but two, big software acquisitions were announced within minutes of each other. In the first Oracle announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire BEA in a deal valued at something around $8 bn. This is a deal...

While Jon finds cool apps to help him continue not quite drowning in the information ocean, I'm happily playing in the other end of the pool, while being slightly pre-occupied with reducing the current number of niggles that my new PC is...

The last seven days has seen a flurry of activity in the IT vendor community, much of it centred on the complex and rapidly expanding area of 'virtualisation'. Cisco has been holding its Networker 2008 show where there was much discussion around...

Over the course of the years few things remain certain in the rapidly developing world of IT. Of those that do the under appreciation of the efforts of IT staff easily tops the list but over the last 10 years a case can also be made that the...

I rarely get wound up at what I read in the IT press, but the headline and some of the content of this gem got me going. It's not so much the speculation of a once every 5 year screw up (once every 5 minutes it seems of late), it's the apparant...