Author: David King

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Future IT and Cloud

Is it the end of the ‘IT Company’?

No – I don’t mean that companies are going to vanish, but will we call them IT companies in 5 years?  The IT industry is changing. It will still be about using technology to deliver information, but I’ve a hunch that new terminology and trends will steadily rebrand our industry. IT companies as we know… Continue

Financial Services, Future IT and Cloud

Capitalising on future IT

As anyone who works in the sector knows, the financial world revolves around data – and this could well see banks become one of the largest adopters of cloud services. However, as Gartner recently noted, the cloud is overhyped in the banking industry and there is still a way to go before institutions capture the… Continue

Future IT and Cloud, Telecoms and Media

Telcos reach for the clouds

Remember when the fashion for telcos was to provide walled-gardens of internet services and content, and avoid being just a bit-pipe, before the world opened up? Well, now a major issue for telcos is how to be more than the bit-pipe for the winning cloud players. This was one of the main topics discussed at… Continue