enhttp://www.star.co.uk/60EPiServer CMS 5http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2011/9/When-IT-goes-Bad/I was reading this morning that the FiReControl Plan (a universal panacea for the fire service) - estimated cost £120m, actual cost £470m value delivered £0 – had been abandoned! I was immediately worried that whoever named the project didn't know...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2011/9/When-IT-goes-Bad/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:46 GMTBlogRootCloudInfrastructureCloud Computing UKit business strategyCloud ComputingBusiness Strategyhttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2011/2/Private-Cloud-Delivering-Real-Business-Outcomes/There is growing acceptance that the cloud is a legitimate alternative to the traditional on-premise IT model and that it has the potential to afford significant business benefits. For midsized and small businesses the advantages include enhanced...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2011/2/Private-Cloud-Delivering-Real-Business-Outcomes/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:46 GMTCloudCloud ComputingBusiness StrategyPrivate Cloudhttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/12/Lets-face-it-Cloud-has-Gone-Mainstream-/Cloud is now a mainstream solution. I don’t say this because every cloud pun has been uttered and written or because every IT business has a cloud strategy now; it is because in almost every tender document I look at there is reference to cloud...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/12/Lets-face-it-Cloud-has-Gone-Mainstream-/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:47 GMTBlogRootCloudCloud Computing UKit business strategyIT supply modelsreduce it costshttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/12/Any-Neutrals-in-the-Net-Neutrality-argument/I never sit on the fence. However, I am split by the net neutrality arguments. The reason for this is that there are really two arguments here:   1.        Should providers block users from accessing content via their connection to the internet? 2...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/12/Any-Neutrals-in-the-Net-Neutrality-argument/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:47 GMTBlogRootCloudCensorshipCloud Computing UKhttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/9/Outsource-Managed-Service-or-Cloud/One has to make a clear distinction between outsourcing, managed service and cloud. Outsourcing is all about wholesale transference of internal competencies, responsibilities and assets of a department or function to another party, these are almos...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/9/Outsource-Managed-Service-or-Cloud/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:48 GMTBlogRootCloudApplicationshttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/8/Just-who-is-waking-up/I am sometimes asked whether SME's are "waking up" to the benefits of cloud computing .  I see it the other way around; that they have been searching for answers to everyday business problems for many years, and the ways of accessing new...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/8/Just-who-is-waking-up/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:49 GMTCloudApplicationsCloud Computinghttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/51/A-look-to-the-not-so-distant-future/The needs of UK businesses are evolving at an unbelievable pace – a technology aware workforce, challenging economic climate and access to new technology advances almost every day are creating the perfect climate for progression. Out of all of the...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/51/A-look-to-the-not-so-distant-future/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:49 GMTCloudApplicationsSLAPlatformBusiness Strategyhttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/3/When-should-you-question-pay-per-month-services/Recently I’ve been exploring my options around backup solutions for my personal data and I came across a number of services that were aimed at personal, SME and large enterprise sized clients. It dawned on me that the personal SME focused services...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/3/When-should-you-question-pay-per-month-services/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:50 GMTCloudDatahttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/2/Buying-services-from-the-cloud/Last time I talked about the attractiveness of buying services more flexibly, on a user centric basis, and have been asked by a couple of people what types of services are best suited to this. My response to this is simple; it's not what you buy i...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/2/Buying-services-from-the-cloud/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:50 GMTCloudOn-demandCloud Computinghttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/1/Cloud-so-what/Many of our customers are looking at how to make the most of the newly created cloud services . Of course how to achieve this varies from business to business but to generalise there are some activities you can embark on which will help you make t...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/1/Cloud-so-what/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:51 GMTCloudApplicationsNetworkSLACloud Computinghttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/1/Your-cloud-doesnt-have-to-be-public/As companies move to SOA and cloud, concerns around security are being raised. You can understand why, the label ‘cloud’ conjures up a picture of publicly accessible services and applications, spread across multiple locations. The fact is that...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/1/Your-cloud-doesnt-have-to-be-public/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:51 GMTCloudCollaborationhttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/1/Remove-the-jargon-to-discover-the-benefits/Convergence, Cloud and Unified Communications are terms which have bandied around by technology companies for a few years now, but tend to mean little to the businesses I talk to. Over the next few weeks we will look at some of these terms and...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2010/1/Remove-the-jargon-to-discover-the-benefits/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:51 GMTCloudApplicationsNetworkInfrastructureBusiness Strategyhttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2009/12/Where-is-my-data/I think it’s fair to say that we’re all comfortable with public content being served from public services that anyone can access. I think it’s also fair to say that given the choice, we would all choose low cost public services to store...http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2009/12/Where-is-my-data/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:51 GMTCloudSecurityDataHostingInfrastructurehttp://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2009/10/Avoiding-Single-Vendor-Lock-in-with-cloud-computing/You have infrastructure in place right now; it’s built on a common Windows or UNIX platform and you’re either in-sourcing or outsourcing the hosting. As cloud computing matures your business has more and more options to move services to the cloud....http://www.star.co.uk/Blog/Paul-Watson/Dates/2009/10/Avoiding-Single-Vendor-Lock-in-with-cloud-computing/Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:42:52 GMTCRMEmailCloudIaasSaasApplicationsHostingInfrastructureOutsourcingPlatform