Anydata Limited is the company set up by Fred Youhanaie in 1988 for carrying out freelance IT consulting work.

Professional bio: After obtaining a BSc in Computer Systems Engineering in 1982 from University of Warwick Fred started work as programmer at JET in Oxfordshire. The five year stint at JET was then followed by a number of medium to long term contract assignments at SCS, Laurentian Milldon, BT Research Laboratories, GPT, British Gas Services, JP Morgan, Sun Microsystems, Rabobank International, AT&T Communications (UK) and most recently at University of Oxford.

As far as the types of assignments go, the 80's were focused on programming (Fortran, C and SQL), while the 90's were mostly spent on system integration and management (Sun/Solaris with bits of HPUX, AIX and Linux.) As for this decade, so far HPC and Grid Computing have been the main focus.

The work at Oxford consisted of two phases, initially as senior systems manager for the Oxford Supercomputing Centre and then as cluster/grid system manager for the Oxford e-Science Centre. The latter involved the development and deployment of Oxford's grid compute resource for the National Grid Service.