Posts by masterofnone

UK govt's top tech heavyweight Maxwell quits for Amazon job

Re: Best of luck

Very good, yes he is a darling boy and makes mummy very proud!

Best of luck

Liam did a superb job in spearheading the dismantling of the oligopoly that dominated public sector IT spend. Granted, teh same old names still win the majority of major government contracts, but without his initial guts to tackle this head on, we would not have the sector that supports thousands of SME suppliers presently. It might not be perfect, and you can pick holes in volume of spend, direct spend, ambition of larger departments to embrace SMEs, but its a much more competitive sector than it was 6/7 years ago - and Maxwell kick started that alongside others.

AWS is winning big and will continue to do so - check out the list of IT vacancies for 'cloudy' type roles and AWS is all over the place. Is this a case of pot kettle? I dont think so, AWS i successful in the UK public sector - in part - due to the forward 'thinkingness' of its partner base. I work with a few of them and they are doing some great work.

Yes, insight into existing contracts, other cloud suppliers etc might well be one to watch. He might have been a high school IT teacher, but that doesn't dilute his ability - totally daft comment. You dont need to be a tech expert to understand the role in tech in helping the sector to overcome its problems, you just need to be logical. If you think thats the wrong, then my view you are part of the problem!

Wonderful wizard of WOS daddy DDN moves into big data

Someone please tell me what the difference is between 'big data' analysis and what the supercomputing centres have been doing for years? Is it not the same problem just focused on a different sector?