At the turn of the millennium, both the IT industry and corporate IT departments were suffering a major credibility problem. The old perception of IT as a bunch of socially retarded propeller-heads endured in many organisations, and was compounded by a view that those running IT did little except talk twaddle, cause them headaches and [...]

Like many others I use Google’s online services for a variety of tasks, relying on Gmail to keep a backup of my emails, sharing occasional files on Google Docs and even playing with Latitude, their new geolocation service, to see if it is more effective than Brightkite or FireEagle.
The various Google offerings have done a [...]

Let me start by saying that I know very little of The Cloud.
However, I am aware that Microsoft, IBM, Google, Amazon and others are committed to it. I’ve also attended seminars led by analysts such as IDC who are sure that it will be commonplace in due course. But few care to state timescales.
Last week, [...]