Celsius wins at 2011 UK IT Industry Awards

I'll be talking about how our celsius product won the Infrastructure Innovation of the Year Award at the 2011 UK IT Industry Awards at 06:20 on 12/12/2011 - BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

BBC Micro is 30 years old!

A great article on the BBC Micro which is 30 years old today http://www.reghardware.com/2011/11/30/bbc_micro_model_b_30th_anniversary/. The BBC Model B was my third computer (after a self-assembled ZX80, and a ZX81 and excluding the school Research Machines RML 380Z which I exclusivly used but never really owned). Those were the days! I remember saving up all my paper round money to go on an Acorn dealer courses for the BBC Micro when I was about 17. It cost a fortune to go on the 5 day course. To their great credit Acorn never invoiced me for that course. I guess sitting at the front and asking all the questions has some benifit. Cheers Acorn!

It's strange now that I'm based in Cambridge and occasionally bump into people who were involved with Acorn / Sinclair in the old days.

Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge

Looking forward to meeting Reid Hoffman (Chairman of LinkedIn) and numerous other of the most exciting and disruptive Silicon Valley companies (Apple, Google...) at the Silicon Valley comes to UK event in Cambridge on Friday. Alquist are one of the showcase companies exhibiting at the event. It should be an interesting day!

UK IT Industry Awards

Great news! We won the 2011 UK IT Industry award for Infrastructure Innovation with celsius, our high definition temperature monitoring solution for data centres. The award was presented to us by TV funny man, Alexander Armstrong.

Alquist's celsius product has been named as a finalist in the British Computer Society & Computing UK IT Industry Awards 2011, in the category of Infrastructure Innovation of the Year.

The UK IT Awards are a platform for the entire profession to celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence. The shortlisted organisations have been selected based on their business success in the past 12 months, and demonstrable high levels of customer satisfaction and business benefits from the users of their products and services, with judges considering each on its merits in terms of professionalism, excellence, innovation and measurable success.

With the announcement of the finalists, David Clarke, Chief Executive Officer, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, said: “Congratulations to the finalists; the competition to reach this stage of our prestigious Awards is tough. Our Awards are central to our mission to recognise the innovation and professionalism of those working in IT and I’m delighted that every year we have such a variety of high quality entries. They are an excellent reflection of the impact IT has on so many aspects of our information society and the potential IT has to transform business, society and our lives.”

Abigail Waraker, Editor of Computing commented: “I would like to congratulate the finalists. The UK IT Industry Awards are rigorously judged and to be announced as a finalist is a great achievement.”

The award ceremony itself will take place in London on 10th November.
 
See http://www.ukitindustryawards.co.uk/ and Computing Magazine Article