Ian Waring

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Ian Waring Dec 18, 2013 20:06:48 GMT

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Hi Everyone,

My name is Ian and I'm an ... oops, wrong meeting.

Finally left Computacenter in November 2012, and have set up my own Software Business, Software Enabled Services, found at www.software-enabled.com. Early days, returned to my programming roots, doing work in various open source tools in the mobile/internet space. Still available to help, as always.

Kids flew the nest some time ago; Ben works as a contractor in Defence focussed SIs, Matt sells Apple products to Educational Establishments for XMA. Both are married, Ben to a special needs teacher Gill, Matt to Harley Street Physio Lizzy (who among other people, spent two weeks doing all the post-op work on the Duke of Edinburgh). Ben has kids Ellie, Charlie and 2 year old Ruby, the latter the iPad/iPhone expert; she can fire up YouTube, play back videos and take selfies unaided.

Live in a Microsoft free house with Jane, 2 MacBook Airs, a Chromebook Pixel, iPad Mini and a Nexus 5 (Jane has an iPhone 5S). I have a Chromecast in the back of my telly (lovely gadget). Based in Chilton, Oxfordshire. Still tell bad jokes; you have been warned!

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Jon Bunyard Administrator Posts: 26	Ian Waring Dec 18, 2013 20:09:13 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jon Bunyard on Dec 18, 2013 20:09:13 GMT Welcome to the forum Ian. Can you do Apps as clearly this is a huge market for everyone? Are you going to start a bad joke thread?

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Ian Waring Dec 18, 2013 20:36:43 GMT

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Post by ianwaring on Dec 18, 2013 20:36:43 GMT

No money in Apps, more the services they enable. Servers, Software and bandwidth is now dirt cheap; my two servers in Digital Ocean Amsterdam are two-CPU instances, with 30GB of Flash Storage and 3TB/month bandwidth for $10 each, plus an additional $2 for weekly backups and an ability to take snapshots whenever I kick those off.

I have the Linux smarts to run these up and secure them. My development machine is running CentOS (Red Hat without the copyright notices), Node.js, MongoDB and Meteor. The other is a Ubuntu based Wordpress network that hosts my web server and various Freemasons Lodge web sites (my initial attempt to get some income and not keep spending my savings). I'm a member of the Google Campus in London, so have access to their cafeteria and mentors there; also a stack of programmers who can prototype apps for all the various web and mobile platforms for £150-250/day.

I'm building apps for Android and for ChromeOS (the latter has a big future; write once, run on anything that runs Chrome). And watching my savings melting away as uptake of Lodge sites is starting slower than I thought it would. Good for another 9 months but I'd prefer to restore my next house deposit sooner rather than later.

In the interim, spending too much time agonising on Mobile phone and tablet trends - and an armchair expert on BitCoins. I can accept Bitcoins as payment for services already, but that's a much longer story...

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Ian Waring Dec 18, 2013 20:51:16 GMT

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And by the way, I expect most of the brand vendors in the channel will head over a financial cliff this side of 2016. Most are selling "Private" or "Hybrid" clouds, which is the last stage of the slip over the cliff to public cloud based services.

When I was at CC, we configured an email system using off the shelf components and own hosting for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games. 500,000 email boxes for two years. We priced it out at break even, around £7/mailbox/year. Google did it for 14p/user/year. That's indicative of the world we're going to.

You can already provision storage at scale for 25% of brand vendor pricing. Compute and Network capacity with redundancy and worldwide access for prices well under a branded server, but can provision that inside 5 minutes.

Open Source and Big Data skills will be valuable assets. Reselling branded hardware and software will collapse this side of 2016. To any doubters, look at the growth rates of Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services and then Google "Simon Wardley Hall of Marbles" to envision the end game.

Jon Bunyard: Damien from Xact has signed up, as has Sue from I AM IT, Kim and Alan from HP, Larry (one half of the twins) and Sharon, and Elliot from sarf of the river, and Prem! Who are they, we wont know until they introduce themselves! Jan 14, 2014 13:37:30 GMT

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