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Ahead in the Clouds
Analysis of the latest trends in cloud and datacentre technology.
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Has the UK government's cloud-first policy served its purpose?
- Senior Editor, UK 09 May 2019 -
Curbing cloud sprawl to keep IT costs down
- Senior Editor, UK 05 Apr 2019 -
What the Myspace data loss debacle tells us about how the internet values creative content
- Senior Editor, UK 20 Mar 2019
The government has confirmed its long-standing public cloud-first policy is under review, and that it is seeking to launch an alternative procurement framework to G-Cloud. But why? It is hard not ...
In this guest post from Henrik Nilsson, vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at machine learning-based IT cost optimisation software supplier Apptio, offers enterprises some ...
The news that Myspace lost 12 years of user-generated content during a botched server migration has prompted a lot of debate this week, which Caroline Donnelly picks over here. When details of ...
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Kubernetes management made easier for enterprises
- Senior Editor, UK 01 Mar 2019 -
Improbable vs. Unity: Why enterprise cloud users should take notice
- Senior Editor, UK 11 Jan 2019 -
Enterprise DevOps: How to build a high-performing technology team
- Senior Editor, UK 26 Nov 2018 -
Going green: Boosting the sustainability of Europe's booming datacentre market
- Senior Editor, UK 23 Nov 2018 -
Common cloud myths, and how to bust them
- Senior Editor, UK 09 Nov 2018 -
Cloud security: Weighing up the risk to enterprises
- Senior Editor, UK 21 Aug 2018 -
Moving to the cloud: Start small, think big
- Senior Editor, UK 16 Aug 2018
In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, CTO at Manchester-based cloud and DevOps consultancy, Steamhaus, sets out why the emergence of Amazon's managed Kubernetes service is such good news for the ...
Enterprise cloud users may have written off the spate between gaming companies Improbable and Unity as nothing more than industry in-fighting, but there are some cautionary tales emerging from the ...
In this guest post, DevOps consultant and researcher Dr. Nicole Forsgren, PhD, tells enterprises why execution is key to building high-performing technology teams within their organisations. I ...
In this guest post, Jens Struckmeier, founder and CTO of cloud service provider Cloud&Heat Technologies, shares his views on the ecological and technological challenges caused by Europe’s ...
In this guest post, Neil Briscoe, CTO of hybrid cloud platform provider 6point6 Cloud Gateway, sets about busting some common cloud myths for enterprise IT buyers The cloud provides endless ...
In this guest post, Chris Hodson, chief information security officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at internet security firm Zscaler, takes a closer look at why cloud security remains ...
In this guest post, Allan Brearley, cloud practice lead at IT services consultancy ECS, advises enterprises to start small to achieve big change in their organisations with cloud. The success of ...
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Google Cloud Next '18: What datacentre operators can learn from how Google SRE teams operate
- Senior Editor, UK 24 Jul 2018 -
Disaster recovery and business continuity: A best practice guide
- Senior Editor, UK 13 Jul 2018 -
How people, processes and technology determine DevOps success
- Senior Editor, UK 11 Jul 2018 -
Why next-generation IaaS is likely to be open source
- Senior Editor, UK 22 Jun 2018 -
SaaS vs IaaS vs on-premise: What if moving to the cloud is not the answer?
- Senior Editor, UK 18 Jun 2018
To coincide with the first day of the Google Cloud Next 2018 conference (taking place from 24-26 July) in San Francisco, John Jainschigg, content strategy lead at enterprise systems monitoring ...
In this guest post Paul Timms, managing director of IT support provider MCSA, shares his thoughts on why enterprises can ill-afford to overlook the importance of business continuity and disaster ...
In this guest post, Eran Kinsbruner, lead technical evangelist at DevOps software supplier Perfecto, talks about why success in agile software development hinges on getting the people, processes ...
In this guest post, Chip Childers, CTO of open source platform-as-a-service Cloud Foundry, makes the case for why the future of public cloud and IaaS won't be proprietary. Once upon a time, ...
In this guest post, Richard Blanford, managing director of G-cloud-listed IT services provider Fordway, advises companies to weigh up the pros and cons of using SaaS and IaaS before going all-in on ...