Neil Cattermull, Author at Compare the Cloud
Integration Works – Of course it does!
Back in 2016 in Las Vegas I had the pleasure of having dinner with 2 of the directors from a company called IntegrationWorks, a New Zealand based firm that had just picked up an IBM Beacon award (The...
Open Minds - HA Clustering in Public Cloud Environments!
I stumbled upon Open Minds by accident during one of my research days, and I was very glad that I did. Based in the heart of Birmingham this little-known firm has been helping businesses for over a de...
Digital Advice Live 2017
We attended the Digital Advice Live event, organised by Smart Assistant, with no particular aspirations except curiosity. With a very impressive line-up, it made me, in particular, think what the cont...
4 Important Steps to VM Migrations Considered!
Cloud migrations can be tricky when looking at the multitude of options for moving workloads from point A to point B. I don’t think there is such a thing as a “typical” environment or technical setup,...
Digital Transformation for legacy IT – Is it possible?
Already, I feel as if the term “Digital Transformation” has been overused. However, it may be because I am embedded in the digital industry and not an outsider to the phrase. A lot happens in an inter...
Your time, your data and what’s it worth?
With tech reinventing itself monthly, one of my favourite statements of late is "I may be old but I'm not obsolete" (I think that applies to many of us on a personal level too!). Great ideas and cutti...
Fintech explained with Blockchain as an example!
Through Fintech (Financial Technology) various technologies have emerged over the decades to take the guess work out of financial decisions. Algorithmic trading and analytics (we know as Big Data anal...
Think before you click Hybrid Cloud Computing!
Many of you may be thinking why on earth I am even suggesting this? Hybrid Cloud offers flexibility, fault tolerance, subscription based cost models and much more. Yes, it does, but it simply does not...
Dell/EMC Momentum 2016 Barcelona - Welcome to the end of an era – Welcome to the digital era!
Compare the Cloud were asked to attend and report on the prestigious event held by Dell/EMC in Barcelona in November so how could we say no! With the event following on from last year with a similar t...
Diamonds are forever – Especially on the Blockchain
If you haven’t been hibernating in a cave for the last 12 months, you will be familiar with the infrastructure called blockchain. This is not a new concept, and I’m sure we are all familiar with the B...
Discussing New Gen Apps at Red Hat Summit 2016
When Compare the Cloud was invited to speak at the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, of course we graciously accepted. The topic? Next-generation applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Enterprise...
Developing for blockchain: Creating a secure environment
Fintech news is one of the industry’s hottest topics right now and blockchain lies at the centre of many of the headlines. This digital ledger technology that facilitates reliable and anonymous financ...
Cybersecurity closed door evening, sponsored by 8MAN
Last week I attended an exclusive invite only Cybersecurity discussion in the City of London at an evening hosted by 8MAN. It was a lively debate on how the current and future of cybercrime prevention...
Are Vendors falling out of love with MSPs?
Every industry around the globe follows trends that create cause and effect relationships. Within the IT industry there has always been ebbs and flows, normally induced by following the vendors market...
Why to Attend Cloud Financial Services Asia
Cloud Financial Services Asia is the thought-leading forum on cloud and financial services in Asia. Taking place on the 23-24th February in Hong Kong, this event aims to bring together cloud infrastru...
LENUX ON MAINFRAME
[caption id="attachment_20673" align="alignright" width="300"] Len Santalucia[/caption] Whilst at the LinuxCon event in Seattle this year we caught up with Leonard Santalucia, CTO Vicom Infinity. Vico...
Unisys Stealth – The Invisibility Cloak for the Cloud
We are living in the cloud age of “hybrid” and if you don’t know what that means I will share with you the analogy that springs to my mind. [easy-tweet tweet="Hide yo' wife! Hide yo' kids! Hide yo' #C...
IBM scores 1 Billion Dollar Cloud Contract!
IBM has secured yet another massive Cloud contract in Europe that sets them aside from other players in the industry! Cloud is booming and never more so in in the Nordics. It maybe chilly out there bu...
… Now it’s Docker on mainframes???
How Docker Will Change the Game for Enterprise scale Application Development You have got to be kidding, Docker on the Mainframe? Following our post on June 3rd – "IBM’s Mainframe team gatecrashing Mo...
Is It Getting Cloudy in Banking?
Following on from the Cloud Banking Event Neil Cattermull goes into detail on his thoughts for the future of cloud in the banking sector.