The tension between Europe as a whole and the US has been growing a lot, as the hyperscalers are basically all American. I wrote about this risk a while ago. The problem is capacity. The commercial advantages of cloud hosting don’t go away just because they data risk has increased, they just don’t win against … Read more
This is the second article about the Digital Infrastructure North conference. The first DIN article is linked here. The second part of the day was about data centres. The speaker from the company that sells very expensive equipment to put into data centres thought it was very important that we built more data centres. Maps … Read more
I attended an interesting event last week, which was a little outside of my normal stomping grounds. Digital Infrastructure North 26 was about, er, digital infrastructure. In the north. It was a definite shift away from my usual startup and business development sessions. It re-activated some old pathways in my brain, and I want to … Read more
Close your eyes. Imagine a castle. Picture it in your mind. What does it look like? What is it made of? Now think of the towers. Are they square? Round? Tall? Short? Do they have windows? I have a point, I promise you. The thing is, you could have imagined a variety of designs. Castle … Read more
We are a tool using species. It is one of our defining characteristics, and one of the ways we have been able to be as successful as we are. But there is another side to this – first we shape our tools, and then our tools shape us. We all know this, and it is … Read more
If you ask a project manager what their job is, they’ll usually tell you about planning, scheduling, risk management, and stakeholder engagement. These are the right answers – they’re the things on the certification exam, the things that appear in the job description, the things that a good project manager genuinely does. They are not, … Read more
Ask five people what digital sovereignty means and you’ll probably get seven different answers. The definitions vary by industry, by sector, by geography, and by if the person you ask is trying to sell you their own version of it. So here’s what I mean by it, and why I think this is a useful … Read more
It has been a while. The last post on this blog went up in 2012. I remember writing it, roughly. I was running my own consultancy, delivering projects across Greater Manchester, genuinely busy. And then the writing stopped — not with any announcement, not with a plan to return, just the gradual drift of someone … Read more
