Monthly Archives: June 2011

Oracle Exadata and SAP HANA compared

Posted on June 25, 2011 by

This last week, Bob Evans from SAP wrote a blog entitled The Top 10 Reasons SAP HANA Is Disrupting Larry Ellison’s Grand Plans. I think it’s a great conversation to be had, but in the end (despite having some good … Continue reading →

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Social Networks in 2011 – it’s all about contextual networks

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

It happens from time to time; I send a Facebook request to someone I know through work and I get a reply by email. It says something like “Hi John, I hope you don’t mind, but I don’t add people … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 22 Comments

I just got influenced – the changing face of Industry Analysts

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

I was going to respond to Phil Fersht’s blog “Will the industry analyst business be dead in five years?“, but Dennis Howlett got there first with “Analyst, anal-yst, who cares?“. But it’s a matter close to my heart so I … Continue reading →

Posted in People, Technology | 5 Comments

What are we looking for in the graduate intake?

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

Our graduate intake days start apace tomorrow. It’s been months in the coming and our recruitment have been working hard – in the words of our head of HR: there’s steam coming off the keyboards. In any case, in the … Continue reading →

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Is it still relevant to control equipment purchasing in Enterprise IT?

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

When I first started working with Bluefin in late 2003, pretty much the first thing that I worked on was internal IT policy, with founder Mike Curl. They had been buying equipment here and there at the lowest price, and … Continue reading →

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Apple iPad 2 – what’s it actually good for and why are Time Magazine such idiots?

Posted on June 5, 2011 by

I was a pretty early adopter of Apple’s iPad in April of 2010 and I picked up an AT&T one in the USA when it first came out. That one was stolen from me in September but I remember clearly … Continue reading →

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MacBook Air – the debacle continues with a two-tier support system

Posted on June 4, 2011 by

A month ago I wrote about the woes I’ve been having with my MacBook Air. I’m now on 12 visits to the Apple Genius (should it be Dumbass) Bar and 5 separate repairs. On the latest repair they “fixed” the … Continue reading →

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