2ct advice for young entrepreneurs

I did attend the Dragon’s Lair event held at Geneva on May 18. It was a great event inspired from the BBC TV show ‘Dragon’s den’ where the goal is for entrepreneurs to pitch their business ideas to a jury (the Dragons) in an effort to get investments in their ventures.

The Cloud could have saved them

There have been a storm a few days ago in Southern France. A very devastating storm, with strong winds that damaged buildings and threw hundreds of thousands of trees on the ground, cutting phone lines and disrupting electricity supply.
A major snow fall has hit the US at the same period, with the same consequences for over a million of american citizens.

While the media give a lot of coverage to the situation facing the families, they often do not mention the fate of the thousands of small businesses hit by the storms. And yet since businesses provide work and salaries, their fate is of first importance for the community: what could be worst than being left with a damaged house and without a job?

2009: the year of ultra-lean IT ?

Welcome to 2009. The ICT market, just recovering from the Internet bubble burst, is now hit by a new economic crisis that will leave many CIO/CTO wondering how to do even more with even less: since the old days of the Internet bubble burst, they already learnt how to do a lot without much, but now budgets are contracting even further, the need to reduce costs is sharper.