Keystones and Rivets

Blog Award nomination - help!

Computer Weekly UK is running the 2008 UK IT blog awards and my colleagues suggested I try to get nominated - an opportunity I've decided to dive into feet first.

Your comments and emails over the past few months have been very encouraging and I hope I can keep writing articles that continue to grab your interest.

If you've enjoyed my posts, may I invite you to email the magazine at

ITblogs@computerweekly.com

with a message along the lines of

"For the CIO/IT Director award I'd like to nominate Paul Wallis, CTO, Stroma Software, for his blog www.KeystonesAndRivets.com"

The closing date for nominations is the 31st May, the awards page can be found here

Thanks for your attention and support.

The HP consolidation

Hewlett Packard (HP) has been pursuing an aggressive campaign to reduce the number of applications used internally to operate its business.

The project, which has been gathering momentum since it was kicked off in July 2005, seems to be entering it’s final phases, and there have been quite a few articles written of late about how the project is progressing.

The consolidation majors on reducing the application count from 6,000 to about 1780, and reducing the number of HP data centres from 85 global centres down to just 3 pairs based in the USA.