Posts by Telford dave

Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all

Point is Missed

For SME's (that is most companies) it is not just a ROI issue it is a security and good governance issue. The cost of maintaining an effective and available on-prem ICT service without cloud is just not possible

Gee, S/4HANA. Just what I always wanted: Customers are wary of what's in SAP's sack

Nice of SAP to force a product comparison

If you force a business to consider spending 7 to 8 digits redesigning their end to end processes in a significant way most large organisations will also start considering whether SAP or a competitor is the best platform to support their business going forward.

Brit prisoners to be kept on the straight and narrow with JavaScript and CSS

Just the 21st century version of the traditional sewing of mailbags surely?

UK warships to have less firepower than 19th century equivalents as missiles withdrawn

Outsourcing Option

Aircraft carriers without aircraft, ships without missiles, why don't we just outsource the fleet to Cunard and at least get some cash return.

Self-driving cars doomed to be bullied by pedestrians

The US advantage

In the end the US may have a clear advantage here as their legislation on Kerb Crawling means that pedestrians generally are less bold that elsewhere. Sooner or later that will emerge as a benefit as the risk profile may be lower for autonomous vehicles at any speed.

The issue may also be what your comparitors are. if you are a driver comparing autonomous it does not make much sense, but if you are a non-driver comparing autonomous cars against buses or even suburban rail there is a speed benefit. Good to remember more than a third of our population cant drive.

No 10's online EU vote signup crash 'inevitable' – GDS overseer

Inevitable by design

GDS should look at themselves.

Because GDS actively discourages transaction pricing it discourages suppliers to provide horizontal scalability for service like this. They much prefer the predictability of fixed service capacity scalable in more traditional ways.

In this instance the supplier can say it performed to capacity as can the department. As usual the poor public suffers from poor IT policy and solution design.

Steelie Neelie finds phone calls are cheaper in Latvia than in Luxembourg

Inconsistency in European policy

Eurocrats have banned "grey market goods" or goods that sell lower in one market being exported to another. I believe levi jeans were the classic case back in the 90's.

In the 2000's they have moved on to services but with a reverse policy stance "we all should pay the same" with mobile phone providers the poster child for bad practice.

Any other bureaucracy would be embarrassed by the double standard.

Apple kept us waiting while it searched our packages every day, claim shop staff

A matter of trust.

Although some random checks are proportionate if you are doing this on a systematic basis you have to ask Apple:

"Why do you employ staff that are untrustworthy?"

"If you consider your staff are untrustworthy why should your customers trust them?"

British biz walking around with 'Hack Me' sign taped to its back

Get real

Most SMEs dont have dedicated resources for anything (payroll, employment law, purchasing,)The real dissapointment is how few commodity service provider (cloud, ASPs etc) make any real policies or service levels around security either.

But I doubt IET will take on the provider community.