Wednesday, April 29, 2015

AWS and Gross Margin.

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AWS has now reported and there is a lot of noise over margins including ample confusion over operating margin vs gross margin. A couple of...
Monday, April 27, 2015

How I will vote

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Trying to decide who to vote for has been a tortuous exercise. I'm not comfortable with the potential SNP pact / deal by Labour not bec...

Political and Management Dogma in IT

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When I helped write the Better For Less paper (with Liam Maxwell, Mark Thompson, Jerry Fishenden and others) there was no political dogma a...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Experiment or Plan?

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Whenever I examine a project, system or line of business then the first step that I normally take is to map it. Mapping is an easy process,...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Gov should start handing over large wads of cash to us, preferably in a truck

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The latest piece of craft from Kat Hall on how a “GDS Monopoly leaves UK.gov at risk of IT cock-ups” was interesting, to say the least. I’...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Pick a course, adapt as needed.

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Ok, a bit of history to begin with. When I took over running Fotango (a Canon Europe subsidiary), it was a loss making organisation. It too...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

AWS to report

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Many many years ago back in the days I worked at Canonical (2008-2010), I calculated a forward run rate for AWS. This was based upon a few ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Devops ... we've been here before, we will be back again.

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In this post I want to explore the causes of DevOps and how you can use such knowledge to advantage in other fields. I'm going to start...