Adrian Bridgwater

Mauritius & SW Indian Ocean on Ulitzer Mauritius may soon emerge as the next ecologically aware data center of choice for companies from the United States to Australia, due to its progressive approach to technological investment and overall national stability. Using an innovativ... (more)

The NHS seems to think that all us journalists ever want to do is knock it. That’'s not true. When I was treated in Poole Hospital for an arm fracture the nurses asked me what I did for a living, so I told them and they immediately recoiled. I had to expla... ... (more)

I’m busy. I mean really busy. This tough market means I work every hour I can, including weekends and late into the evening to share time with our American cousins. Companies are busy too, maybe too busy perhaps? So much so that application development te... ... (more)

Collaborative Australian and Kiwi software application development has always benefitted from the nine to ten-hour time difference we share with the boys and girls down under when it comes to development projects built around a follow-the-sun approach. As... ... (more)

Would it be true to suggest that a product only truly comes of age when it can be re-packaged, re-labeled or re-purposed in a simple to manage context that boosts its proliferation and sales potential? Would it also be true to suggest that cloud computing... ... (more)

Developers working in the touch screen arena are, it appears to me, wielding some of the greatest wow-factor breakthroughs around at the moment. It was only at Microsoft’s ReMIX 08 rich media conference last September that I first saw the company exhibit ... ... (more)

Go to any large-scale developer event these days and chances are there will be an ‘operations’ track focused on trying to provide programmers with an insight into what they should be thinking about before they ‘throw applications over the wall’. The poor ... ... (more)

It’s not just Microsoft Office making waves with a 2010 release product push just now you know? Database tools player Embarcadero is currently showcasing ‘sneaky peaks’ of its RAD Studio 2010 IDE enhancements, which it hopes will up the ante in developer ... ... (more)

As the cloud computing space grows up faster than a bamboo plant on steroids, so arguably does the sophistication of the management tools that aim to serve it. But with these tools in mind, isn’t a good proportion of what we read about the cloud right now... ... (more)

My Economics teacher once told me that if I wanted a job for life, then I should be an undertaker. Demand is always assured, he said. If there were a single database guru out there to deliver the same sagacious type of advice, he or she would surely say, ... ... (more)

Novell’s SUSE Appliance Programme launches this afternoon; buoyant on the promise of giving ISVs the ability to create fully supported software and virtual appliances. So what you say right? Well, it’s a platform for creating a virtualised OS with a compl... ... (more)

Last week I met with a company called dynaTrace, an organisation that labels itself as practitioners in the art of Continuous Application Performance Management, or APM if you prefer. I actually ... (more)

Having been lucky enough to attend countless trade shows, symposia, developer conferences and exhibitions over the last decade, the allure of a free T-shirt has long since worn off. Somehow though I still seem to pick up pens, USB sticks and all manner of... ... (more)

Having built up a fairly apoplectic level of irritation with social network Plaxo despite having stuck with LinkedIn, I was initially deflated to be targeted with yet more news of a so-called ‘business social network’ this time in the shape of XING. F... ... (more)

After accepting an invite to the House of Lords I would expect more than just a press release; thankfully I did get a little more than that yesterday morning. Micro Focus used the Cholmondeley Room on Westminster Terrace to launch its Technology Manifesto... ... (more)

It had to happen, logically speaking I mean. Software change and configuration management (SCCM or SCM depending on your preferred acronym) probably needed to offer more advanced web and multimedia visualisation capabilities. I mention this because I’ve r... ... (more)

You know that thing where developers complain about clients and requirements? I think it’s probably one of the most emotive areas of software application development in some ways; it’s the point at which I think we ought to be able to empathise with the d... ... (more)

Breaking at 2pm UK time this afternoon is news that Sybase’s IQ 15.1 column-based analytics server will ship with ‘in-database’ analytics functionality to allow developers and DBAs to run predictive analytics business logic directly inside the database. ... ... (more)

Just like a London bus, you don’t hear too much about start-ups and entrepreneur initiatives for a few months and then three come along at once. From developer competitions, to entrepreneur events, right through to almost ‘eighties-esque’ dotcom start ups... ... (more)

I was lucky enough to meet a chap called Johan Sørensen recently. He’s the guy behind Gitorious, which is the open source infrastructure for hosting open source projects that use the Git version control system. Having tried to cover the highly popular Per... ... (more)