Kate Craig
Does every Cloud have a silver lining?
Cloud computing has infiltrated practically every aspect of our lives, both at home and at work. From streaming our favourite box sets to accessing critical business applications, the cloud is ubiquit...
Security Seeing Through the Cloud
When organisations consider moving to the cloud, a common initial reaction is, "We're not ready for that yet," often followed by concerns about security. However, it's crucial to understand that "the...
Data storage in and outside the UK
Data security remains a paramount concern for all companies, especially with the increasing reliance on cloud infrastructure to manage and process ever-growing volumes of data. As we approach the mid-...
An interview with Virtus Data Centres
Compare the Cloud speaks to Mark Underwood, Senior Business Development Director of Virtus Data Centres CTC: Mark tell us about yourself I joined Virtus Data Centres in Oct 2011 and I am responsible f...
How SMEs can access enterprise-grade managed services with the cloud?
By Nick Isherwood, Technology Services Director, JMC IT No matter what size, businesses don't need to suffer poor system performance anymore! Thanks to the cloud and some really game-changing technolo...
Partnerships, Alliances in the Cloud, And What Makes Them Effective
By Marcus Cauchi of Sandler Training The recent tie up of Oracle and Salesforce.com (see here for article) got me to thinking. On the surface this is about tying up their technologies but underpinning...
Cloud Service Providers - Can you answer the un-asked questions...?
By Jessica Barry, The APM Group: Independent Certification partner to the Cloud Industry Forum While many people (including myself) may not understand how cloud computing is technically delivered to t...
Why Aren't You Selling Your Socks Off With Cloud Solutions?
By Marcus Cauchi of Sandler Training I have a colleague who is prospecting with a company selling AS400 PaaS solutions to financial institutions. They are about go into a meeting with over 15 of the p...
Good News! You're Not Paranoid
By Daniel Steeves, Director at Beyond Solutions So, they can see it all… and they really are watching! For the past six years, PRISM (under public ownership) and that other form of Big Brother, the In...
It’s time to rethink Cloud Management
By Jim Darragh, CEO of Abiquo We've all heard of ‘Cloud' we all understand it and know the benefits it can bring, so I'm not here to preach to the choir, but what I will do is challenge you; I want yo...
Cloud Security and Control using SDN Overlay
By Chris Purrington, VP of Sales at CohesiveFT CohesiveFT is company ‘born in the cloud'. Since 2006 we've been helping our customers to use cloud computing, and that whole time we've been focused on...
An Interview with Firehost
The leader in secure cloud hosting, delivers service to Europe. Katrena Drake of Firehost CTC: Tell us about yourself I’m Katrena Drake the director of European Operations for FireHost. I’ve worked in...
Are you in the Race?
By Mark Adams, CCO of Cloudmore When our heroic Olympians started preparing for the great event that was London 2012, they had no doubt what the job was. Everyone of them was in a race, a race to be t...
Why the Swiss are not taking to the Cloud
By Mateo Meier, Technical Director of Artmotion GmbH. Like many countries, Switzerland openly embraces new technology and the cloud has been around for some time here. While it is widely used in many...
Benchmarking Cloud Server Performance and Comparing IaaS Providers
By Robert Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of CloudSigma It's 2013 and there are plenty of IaaS Cloud Server / Cloud Hosting service providers to choose from in the market, and the logical approach to...
Buyers of cloud computing need and expect a more consultative sales person
By George Constantopoulos – Cloud Practise Director at SBR Consulting In the fast-paced environment of the high technology industry, consultative sales is becoming the occupation of the future. Howeve...
Keep it Secure… the Business of Cloud
By Daniel Steeves, Director at Beyond Solutions and Partner with James Caan at HB Prime Advantage I tend to agree: this cloud thing isn't as secure as some think it is, simply because all clouds are n...
Does utilising the cloud expose us to more risk?
By Chloe Clarke - Head of Global Business Development at Razor Thorn Security The launch and continued rise of the Cloud in recent years would be difficult to miss, yet surprisingly widespread apprehe...
Interview with Tim Ayling of Trend Micro
Compare the Cloud Interviews Tim Ayling, UK Channel Director of Trend Micro CTC: Tim tell us your all about yourself? I've been in the IT security game for over 15 years now (where's that time gone?!)...
Flexiant's view on Dell buying Cloud Management vendor Enstratius
By George Knox, CEO of Flexiant Yesterday, Dell announced the acquisition of Enstratius, an enterprise cloud-management software and services provider that delivers single and multi-cloud management c...