Finance

The author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables Victor Hugo once remarked: “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come”. Hugo was born in 1802 and I think it is unlikely that he was thinking about Cloud based Asset Management Systems when he wrote this. Similarly, when Quartz was conceived, we were not doing this in the knowledge that a global… Read More »Victor Hugo – an early convert to the importance of the Cloud

I remember my first City job in the early eighties and people saying that one day the office will be a thing of the past and we will all work from home. It seemed a long way off. What computers there were then, involved the completion of cards that were passed to staff in a separate room who worked large ‘loom’ like contraptions which produced cards with holes. These were… Read More »Why the Cloud is important