Charles Brett
Charles Brett is a business/technology analyst consultant. His specialist areas include enterprise software, blockchain and enterprise mobility tech (including metering). Specific industry sectors of interest and experience include finance (especially systems supporting wholesale finance), telecommunications and energy.
Charles has spoken at multiple industry conferences, has written for numerous publications (including the London Times and the Financial Times). He was the General Chair of the bi-annual High Performance Systems Workshop, 2005.
In addition he is an author and novelist. His Technology books include: Making the Most of Mobility Vol I (eBook, 2012); Explaining iTunes, iPhones and iPads for Windows Users (eBook, 2011); 5 Axes of Business Application Integration (2004). His published novels, in the Corruption Series, include: The HolyPhone Confessional Crisis, Corruption’s Price: A Spanish Deceit and Virginity Despoiled. The fourth in The Corruption Series - Resurrection - has is now available.
Charles has a B.A. and M.A in Modern History from the University of Oxford. He has lived or worked in Italy, Abu Dhabi, South Africa, California and New York, Spain, Israel, Estonia and Cyprus.
LATEST NEWS
Abintegro joins The Access Group People division
The Access Group is to acquire Abintegro Limited. Headquartered in London, Abintegro provides customers with an easy to use career solution that helps improve...
Salesforce hits triple of Slack, Results and Dreamforce
While the big announcement was its acquisition of Slack, Salesforce also issued yet another strong set of results for Q3 2020. Later today Marc...
Salesforce takes up Slack for $27.7 billion
Salesforce finally confirmed the rumours as it announced that it had reached an agreement to buy Slack for a total value of $27.7 billion....
Finmail Mailbox for sending digital currency by email
Securechain, a Copenhagen-based fintech products and digital payment solutions startup has launched Finmail Mailbox. Finmail Mailbox integrates both email and a digital currency payment...
Uswitch report reveals the world’s biggest data breaches
A new report by Uswitch has revealed which countries have been the worst hit by data breaches. The report also highlights the worst cases...
Cyber researchers uncover end-to-end cyber-biological attack
An end-to-end cyber-biological attack has been uncovered by cyber researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Using malware, a cybercriminal could use change...
SMB’s cyber reliance damaged by lack of IT expertise
A lack of IT expertise is damaging the cyber resilience of SMB’s. Worryingly, around 25% of small businesses are spending less on cyber resilience....
SMEs failing security assessments by not protecting home networks
SMEs are at risk of failing security assessments by not protecting the home networks of their employees. That claims from cybersecurity and IT Managed...
Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up Week 46 (to w/e 27th November)
This is a Charles Brett's start-of-the-week Enterprise Times ‘blockchain catch-up’ for Week 46. Necessarily it is idiosyncratic and selective.
It is not intended to be...
UK police forces using cloud for data storage
47% of UK police forces currently use a hybrid-cloud model to access and store data. The details emerged from a survey of UK police...
Nectar360 partners with CitrusAd to launch retail media platform to brands
Nectar360, part of the Sainsbury's business, is working with CitrusAd to launch a retail media platform. The solution enables brands and ad agencies to launch targeted sponsored...
Is Salesforce about to buy Slack?
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Salesforce has made a bid to acquire Slack, the workplace messaging app. Reuters also covered the story citing...
Market America | SHOP.COM partners with Packsize to solve excess packaging
Market America | SHOP.COM, has formed a partnership with Right-sized Packaging on Demand manufacturer, Packsize International. With the introduction of Packsize machine systems, Market...
Two-factor authentication flaw in web hosting platform
Digital Defense has disclosed details of a two-factor authentication vulnerability in web hosting platform cPanel & WebHost Manager (WHM). WHM is the management system...
