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IT Life: Sweet Success In The Cloud
Cloud provider Stephen Bedford likes West Ham, the Sinclair Spectrum, and desserts
IT Life: Quantum Computing And Gibson Guitars
Matt Finnie looks forward to quantum computers, but appreciates classic designs
IT Life: Sharing The Creativity Of Coding
With a new curriculum on its way, Rachel Swidenbank wants to teach the UK to code
IT Life: Would-Be Chef Who Cooked Up FeedHenry
Cathal McGloin wanted to be a chef. Now in enterprise mobility, he seems to be busy feeding someone called Henry....
IT LIfe: Geo-fencing Will Change Mobile Retail
Matt Wilkins believes in moving mobile retail technology forward
IT Life: Shifting To A Long Term Plan
Christian Lanng says you can't build a tech company without promoting the flow of information, and making long term plans
IT Life: The Wi-Fi Guy Who Flies The Sky
Matthew Gast is an authority on Wi-Fi, with a love of flying
IT Life: Stepping Up To Services
Steve Cox wanted to be a lawyer. Instead he's an advocate for making technology services respond to users' needs
IT Life: Payroll Man Has Floppy Nightmares
Paul Byrne can sort your company's auto-enrolment pension liability, but he still quakes at the memory of flaky floppies
IT Life: Minds And Machines
Lawrence Jones wanted to be a musicion. Now he orchestrates a tech empire
IT Life: I’ve Been Doing Big Data For Ten Years!
Tendü Yogurtcu was working on Big Data before you heard of it. She likes open source and rates imagination over knowledge
IT Life: Agile And The Raspberry Pi
Barrie Hadfield likes agile development, human rights and the Raspberry Pi
IT Life: I Can Read Barcodes
Making your mobile IT work is Bob Tinker's first priority, but he's proud to say he can read barcodes without a scanner
IT Life: Changing Our Desktops
Most people work from three or more devices, says Lisa Hammond.She wants to sort your workspace
IT Life: Britvic Tech Boss Is University Professor
Rob Pritchard runs tech at soft drink giant Britvic, and is professor of applied IT at Birmingham City University
IT Life: Taking Book Publishing Into The Digital Age
David McNally from Macmillan Science and Education says embracing change is an acquired skill
IT Life: Ocado’s Master Of Invention
Paul Clarke, director of technology at Ocado, wanted to be an inventor... and now he is one
IT Life: The Joy Of Networking
LDEX CTO Simon Chamberlain loves networking, Cisco and sat nav but hates hackers
IT Life: Luckily, It’s Not Brain Surgery
Stewart Smythe wanted to be a brain surgeon. He wound up running a service provider
IT Life: Building A Smartphone In 1999
Ten years before the iPhone, Andy Harter was building a smartphone in Cambridge
IT Life: Fixing Other People’s Mistakes
Dmitry Tishchenko is addicted to measurements, and says Agile is the saviour of IT
IT Life: From Mainframes To Startups
Calum McLeod started on mainframes, and came to startups... via a bit of tape-to-tape copying
IT Life: Don’t Be A Supervillain!
Cyberpunk novels got Dell's Dominique Vanhamme into tech
IT Life: Importing Ideas
Iain Chidgey from Delphix says it’s about time we replace the relational database
IT Life: Sharing Data Makes For Security
for Barry Shteiman, security is all about people sharing information to keep each other secure
IT Life: Making Mobile Data Relevant
James Shannon likes the challenge of making mobile data connect with real life
IT Life: Looking For Answers
Security analyst Jonathan French likes to be solving problems
IT Life: Changing the World One Whiteboard At A Time
Martin Large knows a bit about solving problems and selling things
IT Life: From Modems To Data Security
Colin Tankard likes modems - and makes his living in data security