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James 'Jimmy' Blake is the Chief Security Officer for Mimecast,  a leading cloud services company based in London.  James has overall responsibility for risk management for the organisation's internal IT infrastructure and service delivery platforms spread across four continents.  James also manages the security of platforms deployed within partners such as Cable & Wireless and Iron Mountain.

James is also one of the founders of eyeCompli, a company providing Software-as-a-Service standards-based risk assessment and security program management solutions.

He holds a PhD in Information Security Management and is a Certified Information Security Systems Professional. James has nearly two decades of commercial experience in information security, business continuity and storage.

James has a love of loud Harley Davidson motorcycles, real ale, role playing games and even louder heavy metal.  He lives in rural Kent with his partner, Sonia, and stepson, Rafael.

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Sunday
Jan042009

Disruptive Startups: the wave of 2009

DateSunday, January 4, 2009 at 6:11PM

I've just finished reading Kevin Kelleher's posting on why 2009 May Smile on Disruptive Startups and I have to agree - recessions dry-up venture funding for innovation but also lowers costs of entry for new start-ups that can disrupt the market.



My one reservation with the post is that Kevin mentions only briefly the main issue with being a new start-up in a recession economy - risk aversion.  Organisations are less likely to adopt a risky unknown alternative, no matter how innovative, in a recession economy because the tolerance for picking the wrong product or technology are much smaller with reduced budgets.



We are lucky that Software-as-a-Service has already proven itself, as this offers organisations an opportunity to outsource the expensive and complication of running a sizeable amount of their server infrastructure and support.  Software-as-a-Service's value grows in a recession economy, whereas large on-premise projects become a millstone around the neck of IT departments that have had to trim budgets and staff.

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