Whilst it would cause me great joy to spend a few paragraphs on the perils of debt, wallowing in countless examples of how it has ruined most people’s enjoyment of the 21st century, my attention is turned more directly to a particular type of debt and the effect that it has on organisations. That debt is time debt.

Digital signage is now ubiquitous technology. The business benefit of digital signage is realised when providing dynamic and engaging content, that is, where the content can be exchanged easily and be adapted to the context and audience, especially when compared to static signage.

The data centre pod has multiple constructs and the morphology varies. This is borne out by how data centre vendors have engineered their versions of a pod to address the data centre industry.  The pod market reminds me of the expression on a tee-shirt I was given from someone who had returned from a Southeast Asian holiday: ‘same, same, but different’.

Given the cost of developing procurement documents, organisations need to take care to achieve the best possible outcome. Just look at what’s at stake: the commitment to a solution or service, with its associated—and potentially large—financial transaction, contract period and changes to business operations.

We have vast opportunity to invest in our children’s future through ICT in education.  Our responsibility, as the ICT community, is to listen to the challenges and ideas of our educators and children and be prepared to think laterally about affordable and reliable solutions.

Do you ever get the feeling it’s all too good to be true?  You know, like those mobile phone plans and how the retailers lure you with catchy deals?  The reality is that, at some point in time, someone has to pay for it.
 

Kyoto, Copenhagen, climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases, emissions trading scheme, carbon tax, carbon capture and sequestration, carbon offset, sustainability, renewable energy sources, data centres.  Data centres?!  Hang on.  Back up.  How do data centres fit in that list?

Distributed computing is not new, but the internet and new business models are making it affordable for smaller organisations to leverage the power of these computing networks.
 

The practice of outsourcing call centres and other services to overseas locations has been around for many years and, from recent announcements, is still growing.  However, I’ve had two recent experiences with telcos which bring to the fore the lack of ‘localness’ with off-shoring.