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

Looking to the Future of Technology

Image by luc legay via FlickrAs the blogging idol contest fades into the sunset (actually rainhere in Toronto) I thought I might try to...

Strangest Sites in Google Street Views

Just noticed an article that shows a number of items that Google Street Views picked up.  Its a PCWorld Canada slide show.  Quite interesting!It...

Question for Blogging Idollers

I hope that I don’t have to get searched by Google in order to havethe contestants in the Blogging Idol contest notice this post!!!!Based...

IT Trends for 2009 – Four Months Later

Ok.  I’m a bit slow in reading my pile of magazines (I still don’tlike reading off the computer screen much).  And this post isn’t aboutswine...

Network Architectures, OSI, and the TCP/IP Legacy

I just thought I’d follow on with a favourite topic…….networks and communications…..before the contest closes.  I posted aboutstandards and networking last year, and I followed...

Swine flu, Pandemics, and IT

Image via WikipediaChris Lau’s recent post gotme thinking a bit……just what is the impact of Information Technology onhelping to prevent, or even publicizing, the...

More Lessons Learned – Blogging Idol 2009

I posted some personal ”lessons learned” earlier in the contest (April 15th to be exact).  I figured I might try to see if there isanything...

Does ITIL Lead to Lower Costs?

There hasn’t been a Blogging Idol post discussing IT ServiceManagement and ITIL processes, so here goes a short post - the questionof how (or whether)...

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