Don Sheppard

I'm a IT management consultant. I began my career in railways and banks after which I took up the consulting challenge! I try to keep in touch with a lot of different I&IT topics but I'm usually working in areas that involve service management and procurement. I'm into developing ISO standards, current in the area of cloud computing (ISO JTC1/SC38). I'm also starting to get more interested in networking history, so I guess I'm starting to look backwards as well as forwards! My homepage is http://www.concon.com but I am found more here.

Articles by Don Sheppard

Web publishing as a service

Enterprises are looking at WPaaS solutions, including the open source Drupal, for content management

Technology predictions for the coming year

Report looks at everything from smart watches and phones to high definition TV

A hype cycle for the cloud chasm

Is enterprise cloud adoption in Canada following the famed Gartner hype cycle, or Moore's chasm curve? Let us know

The NIST cloud computing program

Standards will go a long way to making cloud computing ubiquitous, trustworthy and reliable

Is loss of control the biggest hurdle to cloud computing?

Reporters aren't the only people to ask who, what, when, where, why and how. So should CIOs

Cloud-in-depth for data security and protection

Cloud computing security involves a range of overlapping and interconnected concepts, including but not limited to defence-in-depth

Changing of the IT guard

It occurred to me the other day that we are in the middle of a changing of the guard in the IT business. The IBM...

Is this the cloud computing end game?

What would IT look like if everything was in the cloud? A columnist takes a look

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