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Myths of the Near Future features the musings of Mark Logan and Peter Duffy on matters such as IT Analytics, IT service management and business alignment.

Mark and Peter are Technical Partners at Sumerian with many years of experience between them. For more on Mark and Peter read their profiles below.

Latest articles

Service Management in the Spotlight - UK CMG

Posted by Mark Logan on October 29, 2008 1:42 PM

Recently, I presented to the UK CMG’s London conference on the subject of outage prevention - you can take a look at the presentation speech here. CMG is an independent industry forum focussed on performance, capacity and service management. As...

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The Golden Age of IT?

Posted by Mark Logan on August 21, 2008 11:29 AM

The first Queen Elizabeth bathed once every two weeks. Her clothing contained contraptions to collect head lice as they dropped from beneath her wig. Outside in the city, residents routinely emptied human waste from second floor windows onto the streets...

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Applying the "swing vote" principle to IT systems

Posted by Mark Logan on July 31, 2008 3:07 PM

How many people directly influence the result of a national election? In Britain, for example, the size of the electorate is roughly 30 million people. But the number of people who decide our political future at a general election is...

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