The standard observation about Iceland is that it is at least 1,000km from everywhere. Add to that the fact it has a total population about one-third the size of Amsterdam, and it becomes easy to ignore. But as became clear last year, the country has some good things going for it, especially concer... Read more
4 months ago
Iceland has tried before to promote its potential as a site for data centers, and the work data centers do, without a huge amount of success: as a colleague remarked recently `if it is such a good site for data centers why haven’t the big hyperscalers already set up there?’ It is a reasonable q... Read more
1 year ago
When Fred Luddy founded ServiceNow, the goal was to build a platform on which many services and products could be built. The company went on to build just such a range of services, such as ITSM, customer service management, IT operations management, field service management, banking operations, and... Read more
2 years ago
Digital transformation is huge, getting bigger and is the key to the future of business. Nothing exactly new in that suggestion, and neither is there much new about the suggestion that such success hangs on a strong focus on platforms - which in practice will mean the emergence of one, dominant pla... Read more
2 years ago
The recent Oracle Openworld conference in London demonstrated that the company has come to what is, for the users of a the company’s products and services, quite a significant realisation. Looking at the way the cloud has moulded most of the major business services players, such as Salesfor... Read more
4 years ago
As Cloud Service Providers start their journey up the food chain and start pulling together tools and applications that are widely used, especially by business customers, they start to build operational platforms on which those business users can build the services they require. The objective is qu... Read more
4 years ago
