Rhan Willinson
Ride-Sharing with BlaBlaCar's new MariaDB Databases
The ride-share economy is booming, and one of the pioneers of the industry has just announced a partnership wtih MariaDB. BlaBlaCar is using an open source database cluster to meet its scalability and...
10 cloud predictions for 2016
Compare the Cloud has been inundated with predictions for 2016, today we’re going to focus on the two Top 5 lists of predictions from Glenn Bladon, of IT Services firm ECS, and Rajiv Gupta, of Skyhigh...
Our first looks into 2016 and beyond
As we near the end of 2015, we can begin to think about what not only the next year, but the future in general will bring us. Compare the Cloud spoke to two security experts about their thoughts on th...
Is the skill gap becoming a skill famine?
The importance of training the next generation has been on my mind recently. With the speed that technology is advancing, individuals are being skilled out by the industry through no fault of their ow...
European Court of Justice passes landmark Data Protection ruling
On October 1st, 2015 the European Court of Justice passed a ruling that will change data protection for companies operating across multiple EU member states - particularly for those who are consumer f...
Cloud Service Matchmaking: IBM + Twitter
On March 17th 2015, IBM announced the highly anticipated details of their partnership with Twitter. They will be working on industry-first cloud data services that allow the extraction of actionable business data insights from Twitter data by business professionals and developers.
The Invisible Threat To London’s Economy
London is pulling up the rear just behind Birmingham in a recent survey from Prosyn IT Support. The city’s available internet connection speeds are well behind Oxford, Stockholm, Bucharest and many other cities at home and abroad, weighing in at a paltry average of 26.3 Mbps, with far lower within the City of London and the West End.
The future of events with TickX
Have you ever used search engines to find tickets to an event? It's a nightmare. Thankfully apps are stepping in to help.
Swift Spotify cloud streaming
By removing her entire music catalogue, Taylor Swift's exit from Spotify shows how cloud-based music providers have changed the music industry.