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

Some thoughts on an AWSome Day

Hosted by Amazon Web Services, the recent AWSome Day in Toronto was a clear sign of local interest in “the cloud.”

Why you should care about chatbots

The newest twist on the technology, however, is to combine a chatbot with a text messaging platform to form a new business to consumer (B2C) channel

Storage in the digital world

If IoT, big data, smart systems and other mass data generation apps are to be successful, we will need to become more expert at collecting, organizing and managing both corporate and personal private data as well as the open data that will be available for use

Highlighting the federal government’s cloud adoption strategy

The Government of Canada last month released its Cloud Adoption Strategy for public consultation. Will the federal government approach be a successful one?

Why I’m playing Pokémon Go and why you should too

Pokémon Go provides a taste of the future in augmented reality systems. But does it justify all the attention the game is getting, and more importantly, is it enough to keep the momentum going?

Setting speed limits for IT transformation

Do we always need “lightning speeds” and hundreds of updates per day, and, if so, why? Perhaps more importantly, is there a downside to such hyperactive IT transformation?

Tracking the Brexit hype cycle

Now that the "Brexiteers" have succeeded, how might the separation affect the IT landscape?

Ecosystems, openness, and other IT definitions you should care about

Defining IT terms can be legitimate to the progress of technology or just semantics; either way it is important to discuss the topic in order to kick start standardization processes

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