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Blame the traffic

Posted by Sumerian on August 30, 2010 2:42 PM

I live in the countryside. As a city boy myself, this was everything I was against. Gone is the excitement, the restaurants, the bars, the constant drone of traffic, the smells to be replaced with sleepy small town life, the...

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Sumerian on TABB Forum

Posted by Sumerian on August 24, 2010 4:13 PM

There's nothing we love more than a good debate about the issues affecting today's businesses. So while our CTO Peter Duffy was in New York last week, he met up with Kevin McPartland from the TABB Forum to discuss the...

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Virtual insanity?

Posted by Sumerian on July 20, 2010 9:53 AM

In the 70’s people wore their trousers flared, ate prawn cocktail and lettuce from glass bowls and carried their music around on 12 inch vinyl. 20 years later, trousers had holes instead of knees, Vienetta was on the menu and...

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When IT meets the World Cup

Posted by Sumerian on July 5, 2010 12:23 PM

Here at Sumerian, we’re loving the World Cup. This is despite (or for some people, because of) England’s poor performance. We’re running a Dream Team competition and organised a Sweepstake which pays out if your team reaches the semi-final. But...

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Six reasons why IT capacity management fails

Posted by Sumerian on May 26, 2010 3:21 PM

It’s more important than ever for organisations to have a strong handle on their IT capacity. Business volumes and technology are changing at an increasing pace – more and more IT Services rely on virtualised infrastructure with configurable and shared...

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Latency – so simple even Einstein could get it!

Posted by Sumerian on April 15, 2010 11:30 PM

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” – Albert EinsteinIt’s probably possible to find a quote from Einstein for just about any topic you want to write about (note to self – must try...

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Grabbing a slice of the social networking pie

Posted by Sumerian on February 10, 2010 12:17 PM

Love them or hate them, social networking sites are everywhere. With the announcement today that Google has joined the party with their new "Buzz" service - it seems that all the major players now have some sort of offering....

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