Hollie Knowles, Author at Compare the Cloud
Navigating the Energy Crisis with Efficient Cloud Infrastructures
y now, businesses everywhere will have felt the impact of energy prices that have risen significantly since the end of 2021
How Cloud Computing Can Help Solve Modern Businesses Problems
From Artificial Intelligence to Augmented Reality, the current deluge of technological developments is unavoidable. As a result, businesses are having to change the way they operate. Everything, from...
Multi-cloud, Fog, Edge & Hybrid Computing - What’s the Difference?
The cloud has become a key component in the successful running of many modern businesses, making it possible for companies to transfer some of the burdens of storing and processing large amounts of da...
Keeping Business Data Safe - 4 Questions to Ask Vendors
Malware phishing attacks and data breaches have unfortunately become the new norm in today’s digital world. Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting Internet users of all shapes and sizes to gain ac...
Cloud-based Accountancy – The Smarter Way to Manage Your Accounts
In the last few years, more accountancies have introduced cloud-based accountancy into their practices.This sees the use of accountancy software that is hosted on remote servers instead of it being ho...
Powering Small and Medium Enterprises with Cloud Technology
The UK is home to more than 5.4 million SMEs. To look at it another way, 99% of all UK business are SMEs, employing 60% of employees and, as of the start of 2016, generating over £1.8 trillion in turn...
OSS PaaS Rundown: Comparing Dokku, Flynn, and Deis Workflow
Open source software is currently witnessing a renaissance. For every major platform out there, there is at least one open source alternative. Heroku made Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) popular and is s...
Moving to the Public Cloud is the New Norm for Businesses
Recent research from Gartner predicts that the worldwide public cloud services market will grow 18% in 2017, to a total of $246.8 billion. This is expected to continue to increase far beyond 2020. Man...
Look to the Cloud for Communications Services
Greater efficiencies reduced OPEX and CAPEX, and streamlined business growth: it’s no wonder companies across all industries are turning to the cloud. Jorn Vercamert, VP, Communications Solutions at B...
Automation Ensures Effective Management of the Hybrid Cloud
Today the focus on digitisation is driving a steady stream of change throughout complex enterprise landscapes and, for CIOs particularly, the goal is to deliver the kind of world-class end-to-end qual...
Shining a Light on IT Sales Data
Despite most consumer electronics organisations deploying state-of-the-art software systems to help them increase productivity, improve customer engagement or realise cost savings, a significant numbe...
Changing the Narrative on the State of Retail
The retail industry has been expanding on the global scale with the U.S. still maintaining the undisputed leader in the global arena. At the 2016 inaugural Microsoft Envision conference that was held...
AWS Outage, Reinforces the Need for Hybrid Cloud
Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) recent outage resulted in an entire day of loss of services for its clients and reinforced the point that solely relying on a public cloud infrastructure can have drawbacks....
Blockchain - What Does it Mean for The Cloud and User Behaviours
As we continue to see and benefit from the increasing emergence and application of blockchain technology it is clear that this will have a far greater impact on many of us than we realise at first gla...
CEOs Seek Out Digital Transformation
A Gartner survey of 2,600 CIOs worldwide conducted in October 2016 found that they are already spending 18 percent of their budget in support of digitalisation. This number will increase to 28 percent...
Battle the Barriers and Build the Industry
The future of AI and robotics is down to two things – adoption and adaption. It’s success in day to day life, lies equally with the broad adoption of these technologies by the broader public, as well...
What to Look for in a Unified Communications Solution
The range of choice for businesses looking for a unified communications (UC) provider has never been greater. A few years ago, ‘unified communications’ was mainly restricted to sending voice as data a...
BYOD is Dying. It’s Now Bring Your Own Everything!
Today’s organisations need to place more emphasis on how they manage all manners of devices, as opposed to debating whether to have a BYOD or corporate supplied mobile device. BYOD is now dying and t...
The Impact of GDPR Legislation on IT
GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation is a new piece of EU legislation which becomes compulsory in May 2018, following a two - year implementation period. Despite Brexit, GDPR still has an impac...
Imagine a Hands-Free Work Future
Engineers are currently designing both computers and mobile devices to be more hands-free. This means people will have more meaningful conversations with computers. The primary way that engineers envi...