* Posts by Nick Bond

2 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2008

Abbey IT upgrade 'chaos' hits small biz banking

Nick Bond

Too Simple?

It is difficult to understand how organisations can still persist in using the “all-or-nothing” approach during upgrades/changes to their systems. Phased deployments, and the managed migration of users seems a more sensible approach?

With virtualisation it is simple to spin up a number of VMs and run the two versions in parallel. Then using some traffic management software (you could try ours www.zeus.com) migrate their users from one to the other in a controlled way. If it all starts going horribly wrong, you reverse the process and put everyone back on the old system.

Too simple?

Bus-spotting paedo terror bust: Shock CCTV image

Nick Bond

I love the fact that...

The "cameras prohibited" sign is positioned just below the CCTV camera...

Genius!