The last couple of posts I’ve shared a few discoveries and ideas on how Software as a Service and in particular some of the services already available online could be used to set up a very low cost start-up business. This week I’ve been looking into how to take this idea further by using the same sorts of technologies to set up a point of presence in a country without actually being there.
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Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on migrating Aspeq’s email system from Microsoft Exchange over to Google’s hosted emailing offering. A number of colleagues at other organizations I know have also been considering going this way, particularly in light of recent announcements by larger higher profile organizations such as New Zealand post around the use of Google Apps. As a result I thought it might be helpful to share some experiences on how it went for those thinking of switching.
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The terms SaaS and “Cloud Computing” have been bandied around a fair bit of late by the media who seem to be more focused on the hype and a good story rather than the practical reality. Cloud Computing is a term I am like a lot of IT professionals trying to avoid at the moment since it is not really that well defined and usually better described by phrases like “Outsourced Infrastructure” or “Virtualization” with some discussion on fault tolerance and lack of specific location thrown in.
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Last week’s posting talked about optimizing IT spend in the area of maintenance so that spending on innovation could be increased. So this week I am going to blog a little bit about what we are doing at Aspeq in the innovation space, with a particular focus on custom application development.
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It’s been a while since I have posted anything to the blog so it is well and truly time for an update. Of late I have been getting back into software development in a more hands on kind of way, now being in a CIO role for a New Zealand company.
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Having noticed a recent upsurge of “get rich quick” type websites I thought it might be interesting to take a look and see if anyone was making any money by looking into one of the websites. As expected it turns out most of these sites are essentially a combination of pyramid scheme, search engine optimization and taking advantage of different web based advertising charging schemes.
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Having recently had the opportunity to get back into coding - and with a 64 bit machine no less – I found that migrating our company’s booking application from a 32 bit development environment to a 64 bit environment less than plain sailing. It seems that each dot net project compiled output can be marked as either any CPU, x86, 64 bit etc impacting how this is run inside of IIS7 on Vista 64 bit.
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Having relocated back to New Zealand from Asia recently and having to get used to more expensive telecommunications charges and much less bandwidth than in Hong Kong I’ve been looking into a few alternatives.
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Recently I have been looking at some options around going back to New Zealand, having lived in worked in Asia for some years. In general what I found kind of surprised me, since leaving the country in 1999, it seems that salaries in the IT industry haven’t increased significantly, whereas living costs such as housing prices, taxes and even food have increased fairly substantially compared to what I remember.
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I normally try not to single out specific companies when commenting on IT systems, but I recently had an experience that was just so bad with Hutchinson Telecom’s Three mobile (www.three.com.hk) in Hong Kong I had to make an exception in the hope that someone with a bit of get-go at that organization might take some action!
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Asia, Business, Outsourcing, SaaS | seand | 
November 28, 2009 1:20 pm | 
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