Opinions by Stephen Greene
From Cloud to Big Data
Our obsession with defining services under the banner of cloud computing will diminish next year as the opportunities Big Data provides are realised.
Azure Outage
Microsoft's recent Azure outage highlights importance of service continuity and the challenges of relying on connectivity.
Communication Next
With smartphones and mobile computing the next wave has surely begun as cloud services and better technology is changing the way we communicate.
Microsoft cloud revenue rising
Amazon still leads the pack but Microsoft's cloud revenues on the rising fast.
Fast cars, fast clouds
The cloud should become so important, so successful, that we don’t even mention it says Stephen Greene.
The Cloud as a Teenager
The cloud is a teenager maturing and alongside this change the marketplace is growing up as well.
Apple Pay takes on shopping
Apple launches new iPhones and the Apple Watch but it is the payments system, Apple Pay, that should interest the cloud marketplace.
Is the phone in decline?
With VoIP and cloud services the landline telephone is no longer as important as it used to be.
Opportunity on the fringes of a price war
The cloud price war is helping to create a new eco-system of mobile and application developers and niche service providers.