The art of negotiation

Introduction The definition of a negotiation is a discussion aimed at reaching an agreement (with usual compromises along the way). I say compromises because all of the negotiations that I’ve been involved with (either as a lead or supporter to a negotiation team) have usually involved giving something away to get something else in return (“gives …

Does the cloud hype match the reality?

A few years ago I was responsible for creating a brand new secure data centre hosting environment for a number of Police customers. We established, from scratch, a new data hosting environment offering virtual cloud services including infrastructure, platform and co-location “as a service”. I remember the challenges of setting up something new: we needed to ensure that …