David Booth

David Booth

Director of Managed Cloud Services and IT Support at PicNet

David joined PicNet in 2004 and has held several roles straddling the breadth of IT. David has worked on numerous projects for a number of medium and large size companies and Government agencies. David consults as a vCIO, Senior Project Manager, Business Analyst and drives the IT Support and Managed Cloud Services at PicNet.

David Booth

December 15, 2009

The unspoken truth about why your IT sucks

I stumbled across this article this morning and found it quite an interesting read. The article describes why many organisations struggle with IT due to a lack of standard definitions for terminology and practices. Click here: ...

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David Booth

November 16, 2009

Exchange 2010 has launched!

Microsoft has recently released the new version of Exchange Mail Server 2010. As with each new version of Exchange new features are added and it's very nice to see that the focus on new features around retention, governance & compliance and the abili ...

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David Booth

November 4, 2009

Agile Software Development & PRINCE2

The majority of projects that I have managed have been software development projects. At PicNet we use an agile software development methodology. We like the Agile approach because it allows us to get feedback from the business on the system in devel ...

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David Booth

October 28, 2009

Anyone attend VMware vForum 2009 in Sydney??

I've just come back from spending 2 days at the biggest virtualization forum in the ANZ region for 2009…….the VMware vForum! I must say that the event was huge with over 2500 attendees and over 60 technology vendors with their products, solutions and ...

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David Booth

October 23, 2009

Gartner outlines 10 strategic technologies for 2010

Cloud computing and green solutions high on the list for next year! Click here for more detail: ...

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David Booth

September 16, 2009

Time is Money

As the old adage goes - "Time is Money". This is especially true for those who provide professional services. Traditionally, professional service providers such as accountants or lawyers have recorded their times on paper timesheets and then at the e ...

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