Derek’s Blog, launched in 2003, serves as a platform for sharing thoughts and reflections related to his work. It offers over 20 years of searchable posts, categorized by the tags below. Feel free to comment, as your feedback contributes to ongoing reflection and future posts.
June 8, 2009
Over the weekend I struggled with making my votes for this year’s Horizon Report (NZ/Australia version) – partly because I wanted to vote for more than I was entitled to, and partly because so many of the things we were considering individually are now becoming increasingly connected and inter-related. One of the things that emerged […]
Read more...February 26, 2009
The Learning@School conference is rollicking along in Rotorua at the moment, with keynote speaker on day one, Andy Hargreaves, setting the scene with challenges to us all about the need to take account of the whole context and culture of our school when considering change and development. Pam Hook had the audience spell-bond also with […]
Read more...November 15, 2008
The changes in the way we think about data storage and application sharing etc. continues to dominate much of the dicsussion around IT infrastructure. Spurred on by the need for greater agility in the way we manage services, the rising cost of electricity and the significant costs of keeping up to date with storage demands, […]
Read more...November 10, 2008
A wonderful discussion from an all-star panel at the recent ReadWriteWeb conference where they took a closer look at the implications of the current shift towards cloud computing and discussed the possible business models around it. The panel featured Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch, Salesfore.com’s CEO Marc Benioff, Google’s Dave Girouard, and VMware’s CEO Paul Maritz. […]
Read more...November 1, 2008
Cloud computing continues to be one of the top “buzz words” as predicted in CORE’s Ten Trends. Released this year from Educause is a new book titled “The Tower and the Cloud, edited by Richard Katz – available as a free electronic download (2.4Mb PDF). This volume tackles some of the questions and challenges for […]
Read more...July 18, 2008
Virtualisation and cloud computing is identified as one of CORE’s Ten Trends currently, and today’s article in the New York Times titled In Synch to Pierce the Cloud is another indication of how this trend is working out. The article outlines Apple’s new MobileMe service which is an overhaul of a suite of Internet features […]
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