Grid-Tools Blog Author Archives - Vanessa Howard

Google’s Eric Schmidt caused a hoo-ha recently when he suggested that issues surrounding user privacy are a greater obsession with ‘the elites’ than they are for ‘the common man’. Life doesn’t always go the way of the ‘elites’, of course, and in fact certain stratum have been having a tough old time of it if [...]

I’m not sure why The Waste Land should come to mind as I read about the spectacular data thefts over the last few weeks. Perhaps because when I recall anything from my student days, it is always the useless stuff, like the fact that Eliot worked for Lloyds Bank for a spell. The great Anglo-American [...]

How mature is your market? It may sound like an odd question but if you are selling a service or product, it is a vital one and in the world of test data management, it appears that there is a distinct ‘maturity lag’. Gartner’s Joseph Feiman’s latest report, ‘Key Trends in Securing Sensitive Data With [...]

Talk to police officers involved in investigating major crimes and they will always boil down motivation to two human weaknesses. Sex and Greed. These flash points in the human psyche can inspire the worst of behaviour and have probably been a factor in the day to day ever since we tottered up onto our hind [...]

Yep, Cyber Command. Sounds pretty impressive doesn’t it? And that’s even after you learn that it is something the British Army is planning. General Sir David Richards, chief of the defence staff, outlines the vision thing: “We must learn to defend, delay, attack and manoeuvre in cyberspace, just as we might on the land, seas [...]

It is interesting to note that NHS National Services Scotland is handing out desktop software to staff and asking them to trial it with a view to replacing Microsoft Office. Public bodies with large workforces find that licenses for Microsoft products don’t come cheap and with budget cuts in the pipeline, creating alternative software for [...]