Gary P Shewan

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Underwater Bitbarns

Fun fact: my Masters degree is in Marine Science. I once hand fed a shark, that was quite cool. Undersea datacenter biz offers 90-day trialTesting platform for those ‘unfamiliar with the subsea environment’The RegisterDan Robinson I’m fascinated by these underwater data centres. It’s been talked about for

Crazy email

You see a lot of memes about the EV Fella on LinkedIn. Visionary, disruptor etc (some might say…) I read the below and thought of working transformation projects or PE carve outs. Imagine getting an email like that? Cue emergency meetings and a lot of ‘Wth?’ thinking. Read the wild

Big not always best

The reference to the lack of a ‘healthy marketplace’ is key. I will admit in the past, when under pressure, I have calmed Exec and Audits with “Don’t worry it’s on Big Provider™️ At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing downCritics say negligence, misguided investments and hubris

ERP? Done incorrectly? £££

£2.6m to £40m cost for West Sussex County Council. Same sort of issue as Birmingham. How many more are out there? Oracle Fusion rollout costs 15 times council’s estimatesNo it’s not Birmingham this time. West Sussex County Council ERP replacement price to hit £40MThe RegisterLindsay Clark I’

Accidentally running for President

I’m not a user experience (UX) person. But I do have an interest in getting ‘Calls to Action’ correct in communications. We should all do. Anyway, this gave me a giggle. How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? Quite easy (apparently) if people are only confronted with

Help the Farmers

I don’t even know which Minister is in charge of this (I looked them up, 🤷‍♂️). I’m very fond of Farmers. Tough and entrepreneurial job and you need to be knowledgable in a lot of things. Quite amazing that only 34 of 101 services can be done online. But