I went to the IoD (Institute of Directors) annual convention yesterday at the Royal Albert Hall. They had a number of speakers talking about their businesses and what they are doing in…
Which exchange? I’ll have two please.
It beggars belief but for those of you who have read my previous pieces on the aggregation services Fluidata offers in the form of PureFluid and Advance, it turns out that other…
How green is IT?
With technology around the globe generating more CO2 than passenger jets it is interesting on how our demand for faster and cheaper electronics will impact our goal to reduce global emissions. I…
Dual Advance
As a follow on from my last piece about BT suffering from a major outage over the weekend I thought it would be worth detailing our latest development for business internet resilience.…
Failover is key
Businesses across London have been suffering for the past few days with no communications following a tunnel borer cutting through a major BT trunk at the Olympic site. The fault has affected…
Desperate for business
It has been interesting watching how our competitors have reacted to the global downturn. There seems to be almost desperation among them to secure new business at the moment with clients reporting…
Sometime cheap isn’t always best
Interesting article in this week’s Sunday Times detailing a high number of compromised computers ostensibly controlled and monitored by the Chinese Government. What is fascinating from my perspective is the fact that…
Another trial BT?
BT recently announced details on their FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) trial that they are planning across the UK. They are looking to enable roughly 0.035% of the available cabinets with this…
What’s in a brand?
Company branding has always held a level of interest for me and when running your own business something that needs direction right from the beginning. I believe it evokes strong emotion and…
Financial Times
I had my profile picture on the back of the Money section on the weekend with some words of wisdom. I had not read the weekend version before, being more of a…
Free. A step too far?
Carphone Warehouse are a little upset at the moment that Openreach has been given the green light by Ofcom to raise prices to cover increasing infrastructure costs and develop faster services. This…
Health and safety nonsense
I heard the other day that when we had the big snow fall, the local Tesco didn’t clear any of it up outside their store or in the car park. Apparently they…
How do you backup 99.99% uptime?
One concern I have had with the telecoms industry while running Fluidata has been around Service Level Agreements (SLA). Business customers demand that services stay up and provide their business with connectivity…
That’s not my responsibility – not the entrepreneur ethos
I am always interested in the differences between someone who is a CEO of a company and someone who is an Entrepreneur/Founder. To the untrained eye they are one of the same,…
Where will 21CN go?
At a recent partner meeting with Cable & Wireless conversation turned to BT’s ongoing 21CN rollout. This multibillion pound investment by BT seems to be floundering especially when it comes to converting…