Kate is a multi-award winning technology entrepreneur; the co-founder & managing director of Memset, the UK's leading provider of 'green' dedicated servers & virtual machines. Memset was the UK's first Carbon Neutral ISP, and Kate is a nationally renowned advocate of green IT, energy efficient data centre technologies and cloud/utility computing She is the youngest-ever main board member of Intellect, the UK's high-tech trade association, is the chair of their Climate Change Group, and is also the external relations officer of the BCS Data Centre Specialist Group. In her spare time (hah! ;), she is also currently doing a collaborative PhD with Surrey Uni's Computing Dept. in Cloud Computing & national digital infrastructure.
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Today we heard the emergency budget from the new coalition government. Here are the points most pertinent to me as an IT entrepreneur running a high-growth technology company.
Covered areas: Corporation tax, Depreciation & annual investment allowance (AIA), Loans for SMEs, Entrepreneur’s relief and VAT.
One of the areas on which we reached clear agreement in the G-Cloud and App Store phase 2 was the definition the layers of the stack, infrastructure, platform and software, and their corresponding scalable, standardised counterparts: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). Pleasingly, our delinations were very similar to prior work from two decades ago by IBM, except that ours incorporate virtualisation.
A look at the areas of the 2010 budget that are potentially good news for high-tech SMEs, including lending, capital gains tax freeze, investment incentives, education, broadband levy and government contract allocation.
Following my involvement with the UK Cabinet Office’s G-Cloud and App Store programme I’m updating my definition of Cloud Computing, and also incorporating the NIST definition. My answer is “Cloud = Grid + (Utility * N)”, and here is how I arrived there…
Twitter has been valued at $1bn, but is that really sane? Time to get out my trusty calculator and offer a rather different assessment…