Jiri’s Notepad

Tom Rowan, Magirus, 24th April

This was a technical vendor presentation showing a rather tactical, but at the same time rather cool use of technology. [Note JL: At the moment, people need to have far too many laptops. In the future, people are likely to start using their own laptops and corporate software will move to the cloud. But in the short term, this is not entirely possible as many corporate services still live on the desktop and their web-ification is too expensive to do at once.]

The problem of too many laptops is worst for mobile transient workers such as contractors and consultants. The solution presented by Tom is quite cool - an OS build with Vmware player, time activated, running of an encrypted USB memory stick.  One of the innovative uses of virtualisation, which is what I have been looking for for a while.

Overall rating: 3/5 (good technical presentation, a tad too detailed)