Monthly Archives: November 2004

VNO’s

The number of VNO’s in the market place is becoming clearer. Another has come to my attention over the past few days, Virtela.  So I’m now aware of Vanco, Virtela, Nexagent and DMData (IBM owned). I’m sure there’s more out … Continue reading

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Energis grows BBC contract

Energis has managed to grow it’s contract with the BBC. That’s great news for Energis, and it’s return to heath plan seems to be working well.

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EMEA Team meeting

I’ve spent three days of the last week in IBM Bedfont lakes. Bedfont lakes was used as the baddies headquaters in the James Bond Film Tomorrow Never Dies.  I got to hear about the regional managers, North, West, Central etc … Continue reading

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Nordics – DMData

The EU will soon  approve IBM’s purchase of DMData and IBM will have a VNO in the Nordics. This is an interesting position for Networking in EMEA for IBM. I’ll be having more conversations with my Nordics Manager as to … Continue reading

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New York trip

It was OK,  didn’t get to see much, airplane, car, hotel, office and then it all in reverse. I had a driver which was cool,  so somebody picked me up and dropped me off every where.  The meeting went well, … Continue reading

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Back in the UK

I’m currently sat in the business lounge of BA at heathrow waiting for my delay flight to manchester, can’t wait to get home.

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Level 3 gets £100m

Level 3 and McLeodUSA Agree to Terminate 1999 Dark Fiber Lease Agreement [via Yahoo]

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Royal wedding

There was a Royal wedding in Chester today, even the Queen was here. So we went to Manchester instead. Trafford Park to be precise. BTW Typepad has changed it’s editing window today. You can change the text colour too now.

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level 3 in Warwick

I’ve a meeting with Level 3 in IBM Warwick tomorrow…do I aks him about his companies new found junk status?

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Back in the UK

Back home, it’s a tad wierd commuting to Amsterdam just for the day, but for total journey time, it’s quicker to get to Amsterdam than London both by car and train..nuts. Anyway.. spent the day discussing how best to tender … Continue reading

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early start

up at 3.50am this morning to catch a 6am flight to Amsterdam. I’ve an all day meeting to discuss the tendering stratergy for a major customer of ours across, EMEA, AP and Brazil.

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Cisco Book

One of the IBM team has had a book published. Martin’s a really nice guy so it’ great to hear that he’s done this.

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Amsterdam

It’s getting a bit mad around here at the moment, I’m off to Sweden for tomorrow and Wednesday and I’ve now been requested to join a meeting in Amsterdam for the day on Thursday. So I’ve got my assistant checking … Continue reading

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Sweden

I’m off to Stockholm, Sweden tomorrow; I’ve got a meeting with my Nordics manager and his team in IBM Kista so I’ll be there most of Wednesday. I’m flying business class with SAS, which is nice.

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US Election

I’ve read plenty of stuff about Bush now and here’s some more, if I could vote, it’d be for Kerry.

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