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If a single drunk driver is able to stop your production and that production is critical you are doing something wrong to begin with. While the cloud might (and probably will) offer better HA and DR it will not fix a bad design by itself.

The article also states: " I didn't want to create my own internal IT department". I' guessing Andrew Oliver is a PHB.

Because cloud services have never had extended outages...

Honestly, anyone who sees cloud services as the great fix for reliability problems is an idiot, especially reliability problems caused by a once-in-a-lifetime drunk-driver incident. Most of the cloud services seem to have had their fair share of incompetence-related downtime. I wouldn't mind betting that if he'd put all his IT stuff one one of the commercial cloud platforms for the last 2 years, he would've had more downtime than he had running them in his offices.

In any case, shoving stuff in the cloud doesn't absolve you of needing a competent IT admin to handle backups and such, unless you're insane enough to trust *everything* to a cloud operator who, at the end of the day, doesn't actually give too much of a crap about one tiny customer who might've lost all their data.

http://www.cio.co.uk/news/3227786/metropolitan-police-extends-contract-with-capgemini/

then Director-General for NPfIT Richard Granger charged them not £1bn, as the contract permitted, but just £63m. Granger's first job was with Andersen Consulting, which later became Accenture.

I bet I know who will be getting a nice high-pay/no-show job after he retires from government.

Too late. Richard Granger long since left his post at Connecting for Health and now works for KPMG Australia. He was never really in government, as he was a civil servant rather than being elected. In fact for a while he was the highest paid civil servant in the country on £290,000 a year. The good thing about him leaving was that at least he did not get a golden handshake like most would have.

http://www.cio.co.uk/news/3141/kpmg-confirm-appointment-of-richard-granger-ex-nhs-cio

Hence, they are close too announcing a product. All current Qt apps from Symbian will work on it, so if people are happy with their current Symbian phones, they should be all go.

They are sitting on a nice product, let's just hope they can deliver. Sounds from Intel are such to indicate we can expect phones/tablets Q2 2011 ( http://www.cio.co.uk/news/3258820/intels-meego-os-to-start-shipping-tablets-and-netbooks/ ). Don't forget the first thing the new CEO said was not to communicate about devices before they where actually ready to almost ship. So do things the Apple way when it comes to devices. That is a good strategy.

Try this instead: http://www.cio.co.uk/news/3258814/london-stock-exchange-under-major-cyberattack-during-linux-switch/

in deed. also, one has to remember that it's not just applications that drive technology/infrastructure, but technology/infrastructure also drives applications.

BBC has sorta taken it upon themselves to be a technological leader and trendsetting influence in the modern information age. this has been demonstrated in their sponsorship of the bbc.co.uk:Reboot competition a few years back, their BBC Backstage developer network, their promotion of open industry standards and continual support of open innovation & "public-spirited developers and designers."

promoting technological progress is part of the BBC's mission statement and "long-term transformational strategy." other companies don't embody the same idealism and are primarily concerned with their bottom line. in such general cases, they aren't going to develop an application making use of high-speed broadband until there's already widespread infrastructure to support it.

you don't ever have to worry about providing more bandwidth than people can use. people will naturally make full use of the technology available to them. their usage, and even lifestyle, will change to adapt to new technologies. people never really traded movies or ISOs online until broadband DSL & cable became widely available. likewise, streaming media content didn't become popular until broadband made such applications practically possible. obviously you can't take advantage of technology that doesn't exist or you don't have access to. so we're not going to see very many applications relying on 10Mbps connections until such speeds become standard.

Yeah, the outage was way more successful than the previous one from November 2007.

...with HRMC's abandoned outsourcing deal with EDS? EDS owes HMRC £71 million, but EDS has so far only managed to pay back a quarter of a million. Could it further have anything to do with HMRC's £2bn replacement deal with CapGemini that promptly tripled to £8bn? Fleeing former Revenue employees are not surprised. "Morale is non-existent. Mistakes happen continuously. Rooms full of unopened post are not uncommon. It doesn't matter if you make mistakes because you won't be held accountable".

...with HRMC's abandoned outsourcing deal with EDS? EDS owes HMRC £71 million, but EDS has so far only managed to pay back a quarter of a million. Could it further have anything to do with HMRC's £2bn replacement deal with CapGemini that promptly tripled to £8bn? Fleeing former Revenue employees are not surprised. "Morale is non-existent. Mistakes happen continuously. Rooms full of unopened post are not uncommon. It doesn't matter if you make mistakes because you won't be held accountable".