So, time for a few days break, but I’ll be back in 2009, with more posts, a new site, and a podcast feed. In the mean-time, check out 2008 in tech from Rory Cellan-Jones, of the BBC (don’t even get me started on the iPhone bit though):  Looking back - tech in 2008.

This week Cisco had their annual C-Scape analysts conference in the US (I’m looking forward to a European focussed one - life is different here ). There was a very nice demo of Unified Communications, with a social networking spin. Cisco argues that companies should make an architectural play here - a dig against [...]

The second CloudCamp in London takes place on Thursday the 13th of November (details for booking here).
Very promising line up so far:

Joe Baguley, Quest CTO Europe, “Virtualisation isn’t always green”
Paul Watson, Arjuna, “Federated clouds”
Duncan Johnston-Watt, Enigmatec CTO, “Cloud Cover”
Phil Dean, Cisco,”What CIOs are saying to Cisco about cloud”
Alexis Richardson, CohesiveFT, and Adil Mohammed, Entrip, “Cloud [...]

Today at 18:00 UK time, 19:00 european time and 10am PST/1pm EST the Cisco TechWiseTV channel is showing an episode that covers covering networking the remote office. You can register here. It includes talk on using the ISR 881 at the home office and the using the latest cisco design guides. Check out the trailer [...]

You might want to put on a hard hat to protect you from the financial crisis fall out, like this nice lady with the CI-Net team at IP08. Or you might just want to be adventurous. She had an interesting story to tell about CI-Net’s Managing Director Graham Mclean.
Mclean is aiming to raise £10,000 (about [...]