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Before RedMonk he spent three years at Illuminata, Inc., where he led both the Application Strategies and Enterprise Management practices at the firm. He worked with both vendor clients, to establish product development and marketing strategies, and as an advisor on IT strategy to user organizations and service providers. James managed other analysts at the firm to ensure timely delivery of reports and custom research projects.
He joined Illuminata from InformationWeek UK, where he was deputy managing editor.
Before InformationWeek he worked at Computing, the UK's leading enterprise title. As a reporter he specialized in systems management, application middleware, and legacy operating environments, working closely with IT managers and vendors to identify and break exclusive news stories.
James has been an IBM and Microsoft corporate watcher for 8 years. He's regularly quoted in US and European press, and has served as an industry expert for television and radio segments with media outlets like the BBC.
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SpringSource buys Rabbit For World Made of Messages
April 16 2010
Its 25 past 6 on a Friday afternoon and very much beer o’clock, but I wanted to note one of the most exciting acquisitions I have seen in a while. After all its not every day that an enterprise player like VMware SpringSource buys a technology that my hacker friends… read moreVAT: How To Explain The Value of The Cloud To Business People
April 15 2010
A few months back I attended BusinessCloud9, a really excellent event run by my old mate Stuart Lauchlan, looking at cloud-based business applications. It was the least dorky Cloud show I have been to by some margin- the room was chockful of suits, with budgets. Anyway – one story really stuck… read moreDon’t Believe the Hype, Come to NoSQL EU April 20-22
April 14 2010
One of the hottest topics in software development right now is what is being called NoSQL. What is that? I kind of like the definition from no-sqldatabase.org NoSQL databases mostly address some of the points: being non-relational, distributed,?open-source and horizontal scalable. The original intention has been modern web-scale [...] read moreMicrosoft: Back In The Mix. Developers, Developers, Developers Reprised
March 26 2010
When you attend a conference there is always a danger of going native, enjoying the Cool-Aid a little too much, so it pays to give it a couple of days before commenting. I wasn’t able to make Microsoft MIX this time around but I did follow it on the web.… read moreCharlotte Otter, Editor/Translator/Writer: On Jargon
March 25 2010
Thomas Otter is a good friend of mine, but his wife is the talented one. Charlotte is a great writer, and has built a business in idiomatic translation of corporate information – particularly between English and German. In what looks like the first post on her new marketing blog Charlotte… read moreDefining Cloud is Simple. Get Over It. The Burger.
March 22 2010
My efforts at cloud definitional work began with 15 Ways to Tell its Not Cloud Computing. In the intervening time the forces of complexity and, yes, pragmatism have triumphed. We’re now making the long transition from simple and public to complex and private – hopefully some simplicity will make it… read moreIBM, Red Hat adopt “VMware Pattern” for Cloud. Disruption Strategy Emerges
March 17 2010
IBM this week clarified its plans to handhold enterprises into the cloud, working with Red Hat to bypass VMware with the announcement of Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud. I have been talking for a while about what I call The VMware Pattern, in posts such as Amazon… read moreMarch 17 2010
I wrote a post the other day about Digital Manuscripts, Reading as Writing, and the danger of of “digital rights management” (DRM). The New York Times today provided a lovely follow up in the shape of an article – Turning Green With Literacy – about the Irish role in saving… read moreMarch 12 2010
One of the great unsolved Java problems is a lack of modularity. OSGi is a technology designed to solve the problem. Wikipedia says: The OSGi framework is a module system and service platform for the Java programming language that implements a complete and dynamic component model, something that does not exist… read moreReading is Writing: Illuminating The Digital Manuscript
March 10 2010
Back in 2004 I wrote post called The Death of Consumer Electronics. Wishful thinking of course. My central, hopeful, argument is that we’re actually content creators, not consumers. What exactly do you consume when you take a digital photograph and post it on Flickr? Sure you can sit and watch… read moreMarch 04 2010
From Wikipedia: “A pilot is a mariner who guides ships through dangerous or congested waters, such as harbours or river mouths. However, the pilot is only an advisor, as the master remains in legal, overriding command of the vessel. Pilotage is one of the oldest, least-known professions, and yet it is one… read moreJust another Oracle Sunrise: Further Thoughts on Consolidation
February 19 2010
Everyone else seems to have gone with the Sunset, so I figured why not call out Sunrise instead… while some Sun technology is going to get nuked, and some people too, there are still plenty of solid assets to consider when parsing what Oracle is going to do. One advantage of… read moreCan IBM POWER 7 hit the C-spot?
February 18 2010
I attended a briefing last week in London with Rod Adkins, SVP IBM Systems and Technology Group, and Robert LeBlanc, who runs IBM’s middleware business. The subject at hand was the new POWER7 chip. If you’re not a hardcore IBM server customer you’ve possibly never heard of POWER. It runs IBM’s… read moreFebruary 16 2010
I saw a Facebook update that really caught my attention just now. We don’t hear enough about black inventors, so thanks to Zena, the Cookie Princess, for today’s “Black History Fact”. No matter how you like your pancakes, you have all of these African-American inventors to thank for helping you… read moreLeo’s Sustainable Legacy: thoughts on SAP’s CEO changes.
February 11 2010
Sunday night about 7pm I checked my phone and the chatter was already in full effect – SAP CEO Leo Apotheker had agreed to leave the company. The hardest working man in the analyst business, Ray Wang, already had first take post online a couple of hours later. Ray is… read moreMultimedia
Webcast: Grid 2.0
February 19, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free With the coming energy crunch set to dwarf the credit crunch Smart Grids are quickly becoming a really hot topic--why is that? Just how do Smart Grids help solve energy issues and what can we do with...
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