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What is Cloud Computing?
By Richard May, Managing Director of Virtual DCS The ‘Cloud’ does not exist. It is simply a metaphor for the internet and within this metaphor there are a number of services that are placed under the...
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What is the Cloud Industry Forum? An Interview with its Chairman, Andy Burton
Cloud Industry Forum The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) was established in 2009 to provide transparency through certification to a Code of Practice for credible online Cloud service providers, and to assi...
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Hosted Telephony for Hotels
By Neil Tolley, Managing Director, Fourteen IP Hotels, particularly the major groups, have been moving services above property (to the cloud) for quite some time now with servers and storage going qui...
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The “ALL INCLUSIVE” Colocation Cost Con
Power = electrical power and electrical power = vast profits for the colocation provider or legacy reseller. Data centres, especially in London are critical to the country’s growth and ability to comp...
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Who are Strategic Blue? An interview with Dr. James Mitchell
CTC: Who is Strategic Blue? We’re the world’s first cloud broker-dealer, based in London but offering our services globally. We bring trading expertise from the commodities markets to cloud computing....
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Simplifying Unified Communications in the Cloud
Rob Pickering CEO ipcortex tells us about Unified Communications Although cloud generates a huge amount of press, and some might say hype, in the world of computing, it’s a phrase that’s having much l...
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Compare the Cloud City Cloud Interview
CTC: Who are City Cloud and what is your companies main focus? City Network is one of the leading hosting providers in Scandinavia with over 15000 customers. Whereas a few other companies provide VPS...
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Private Cloud is NOT a Hosted Service
By Terry Pullin Gone are the days of cloud computing only being delivered by a provider as a hosted service. Cloud computing is often defined as “the delivery of IT over the internet”, in reality this...
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Is a Company Dedicated to Providing Hosted Desktops to Accountants too niche?
Hosted Accountants have been setup to provide hosted desktop solutions to accountancy firms and their clients, is this too niche? Well the three directors who have combined total of over 35 years’ exp...
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CAPEX and OPEX an Accountants view
Laurence Moore is Chairman of Prime Accountants Jonathan Toni (Strategic Alliances Director Compare the Cloud) has asked me to write a guest blog about the benefits derived by moving from a CAPEX mode...
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Big Brother in the Cloud
Following on from my last Blog, “Data storage in and outside the UK”, I thought that I would contribute an update on this topic. For the benefit of those who didn’t read the last white paper, well in...
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6 Reasons to Re-evaluate Your Email Security Service
By Samantha Stone, Vice President of Marketing for Mimecast North America If you were to conduct an analysis of my personal email in-box you’d discover that I’m a balding man with performance problems...