What’s in a name

Whilst reading the blog of Jeff Kaplan, I came across an entry discussing the differences between "cloud computing" and "SaaS".  Reading the comments to this post it was clear that people were starting to get passionate about the differences between these and other terms used in this space. However we are in an emerging market …

Discussing S+S with Darren Bibby of IDC

Over the past few months I have been involved with a piece of work that IDC have been delivering to Microsoft around partner evolution in the emerging S+S world.  The output from this is a tool that is available either via the global partner web site (Products and Solutions tab, S+S section) or directly at …

Five point Summary for Microsoft Partner Conference, Houston 2008…..

1. Houston was nowhere near as humid as I had been led to believe, I was walking 10+ blocks in the middle of the day all week and whilst the aircon upon entering the hotel was heaven, I didn’t need to rush to my room and change 2. Having spent 2 years working with Microsoft …

Rewarding Creativity in the Education System

Although I do not want to join the ranks of the "give the UK education system a hard time" brigade, I am strongly of the opinion that we are not successfully rewarding and encouraging the creative talents of our children in the same way that we reward the traditional skills of the 3R’s (by the …

How did it end being July already?

Last time I looked it was May 21st and I was packing my bags to head off to New York for the Software plus Services PAC.  Fast forward and we are mid July with the PAC, lots of hard work (and fun) plus Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference all been and gone.  Looks like it’s going …