Farewell, Waterside!
Mar 19, 2021, 8:57 am
#16
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Indeed. It was, if memory doesn't deceive me (I was allowed in the sancta sanctorum a few times my IAG patrons had the largesse of offering a couple of cups of coffee) a Topbrewer coffee maker which retailed - at the time - between $7k and $11k if you had the cold brew version too, which I think the IAG one had. Oh, coffee was free for the IAG employees.
If you think that it was installed in a floorplate that used to house BA IT employees who'd been made redundant it was quite the slap in the face. There were some awkward questions being asked on Yammer...
If you think that it was installed in a floorplate that used to house BA IT employees who'd been made redundant it was quite the slap in the face. There were some awkward questions being asked on Yammer...
Mar 19, 2021, 9:04 am
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Migrating out of Waterside will be no simple task as they have many enterprise IT and other technology solutions that are housed within it. Depending on the amount of floor space required it was also rumored they may move back to Compass Centre and share it with its new occupants Heathrow Airport. There are also other neighboring offices that could work.
Mar 19, 2021, 9:23 am
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Migrating out of Waterside will be no simple task as they have many enterprise IT and other technology solutions that are housed within it. Depending on the amount of floor space required it was also rumored they may move back to Compass Centre and share it with its new occupants Heathrow Airport. There are also other neighboring offices that could work.
Mar 19, 2021, 9:53 am
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For the standard office worker (O365/SharePoint) that would be fine but we are talking a hybrid environment here. From my understanding BA IT is in the process of migrating to a centralised model under IAG. But like I said there are other systems we are talking about and integration into other nonstandard and external systems.
Mar 19, 2021, 10:05 am
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For the standard office worker (O365/SharePoint) that would be fine but we are talking a hybrid environment here. From my understanding BA IT is in the process of migrating to a centralised model under IAG. But like I said there are other systems we are talking about and integration into other nonstandard and external systems.
If a move off prem is a priority, it's not the hardest thing to do.
Last edited by PGberkshire; Mar 19, 2021 at 10:11 am
Mar 19, 2021, 10:09 am
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You can still re-platform x86/virtualised workloads in the cloud without changing the application dependancies. ie VMC or shift straight onto EC2. Then later you can modernise and consolidate the stacks into cloud native workloads.
But if a move off prem is a priority, it's not the hardest thing to do.
But if a move off prem is a priority, it's not the hardest thing to do.
Mar 19, 2021, 10:12 am
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Mar 19, 2021, 10:17 am
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Was that the silver building near Hayes that backed onto the mainline railway into Paddington? If so it was knocked down a while ago.
Last edited by Schwann; Mar 19, 2021 at 10:31 am
Mar 19, 2021, 11:21 am
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I have hazy memories of the place as I’ve been there only once or twice but, yeah, I recall a generic boxy building that was in the vicinity of the old Nestlè factory.
Mar 19, 2021, 11:41 am
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Mar 19, 2021, 12:07 pm
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Mar 19, 2021, 1:10 pm
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I think that was part of Engineering, fixed things like wheels, judging by the number of wheels parked outside that you could see from the train.
Mar 19, 2021, 1:45 pm
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13901 ,,, thank you for your very enlightening inputs.
I have distant memories of using the Eastern Perimeter Road in 1964, driving from home in Richmond to work in the Southern ATC Centre ... which was then a cluster of huts and SECO buildings on the south side of the Bath Road near the 09L threshold.
https://atchistory.wordpress.com/202...ow-north-side/
I have distant memories of using the Eastern Perimeter Road in 1964, driving from home in Richmond to work in the Southern ATC Centre ... which was then a cluster of huts and SECO buildings on the south side of the Bath Road near the 09L threshold.
https://atchistory.wordpress.com/202...ow-north-side/
Last edited by T8191; Mar 20, 2021 at 5:33 am