The Best Server in the World
There are many ways to define "the best server in the world." But sometimes, reality tells a better story than any of the most sophisticated metrics ever can.
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The Email That Changed Everything
On migrating from CCMail to Exchange, the cultural shift nobody predicted, and a boss who taught me that the best business planning happens on a tablecloth.
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Don't Fix What's Visible. Fix What's Causing It.
The first lesson of the materials handling company: the problem everyone complained about was never the real problem.
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The Weakest Candidate
Every career has a hinge point. A moment where one chapter closes and another opens, and where the circumstances are just unlikely enough that you later wonder how it nearly didn't happen.
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When Two Worlds Had to Become One
We were rolling out Windows NT across all German sites. We had thirteen locations, all connected in a WAN by various means. We were trying to build, across that fragile infrastructure, something that had never existed before: AA enterprise computing environment, spanning two completely different technology worlds.
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IT Forensics And the Disappearing Parcels
By 1993, our logistics firm's IT department had earned a certain reputation. The Mylex episode had made believers out of sceptics, Windows NT was rolling out across German sites, and small Access applications were appearing on desktops like wildflowers.
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The Day a £5,000 Controller Changed Everything — and Why It Matters for AI Today
There's a particular kind of frustration that comes from watching a capable system grind to a halt — not because the idea is wrong, but because one hidden constraint is strangling everything else.
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From Paper Stacks to Intelligent Automation: A Short Story from the Field
Around 2002 or 2003, I was working as an IT Manager for a manufacturing company with a busy service division. Our service technicians spent their weeks on the road, driving from customer to customer in their (always slightly overworked) white vans.
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Breaking Free from Legacy Infrastructure: A Smarter Foundation for AI-Driven Growth
Most of the infrastructure we walk into looks the same: a VMware environment that's been running for years, quietly getting more expensive, and harder to change. Here is how we help organisations break free.
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