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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...

Rhan Willinson 19 February 2016
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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...

Neil Cattermull, Author at Compare the Cloud 19 February 2016
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Do I need a CDN if I’m already Running My Website on a Cloud Host?

Hosting a website on a cloud-based server is a smart decision. It typically makes your website faster, more secure and agile. Cloud hosting is also helpful in letting you manage the scalability of you...

Daan Pepijn 19 February 2016
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IoT Tech - the future is adorable

Last week I attended the IoT Tech Expo at Olympia in London, and can I just say that the future is looking pretty cute! Innovation abounding, the expo was full of attention grabbing displays, but the...

CTC Editorial Team 18 February 2016
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Pay as You Go Innovation

It is clear to see that cloud has lived up to the hype. It is now firmly in a high growth phase and only shows signs of accelerated growth over the next few years. In my view, there are three key reas...

Steve Haworth 18 February 2016
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Brocade Paves the Way to 5G with New IP Offerings for Mobile Network Operators

Brocade today announced new offerings to help mobile operators re-architect their networks to support 5G services and deliver higher agility and performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional ne...

CTC Editorial Team 18 February 2016
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Cloud Colonialism: can local player stand up to the US cloud giants?

After Facebook managed to get itself embroiled in an embarrassing row in India, we look at the US cloud firms and ask if they are leading to a wave of tech neo-colonialism. [easy-tweet tweet="Are the...

Bill Mew, Author at Compare the Cloud 18 February 2016
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Classics never die

What do the winklepicker, the majestic perm and thin client computing all have in common? One answer could be that they have all had their day - more than once. Trends are often said to go in cycles,...

Rhian Wilkinson 17 February 2016
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London StartUp Curve to close the gap between traditional and mobile payments

Today, Curve launches to simplify payments and reshape people’s experience of managing their money. The London-based startup allows people to combine an unlimited number of bank cards into one physica...

CTC Editorial Team 17 February 2016
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Richard Agnew from Veeam has some big news for CTC's #CloudTalks

Richard Agnew of Veeam speaks with Compare the Cloud for #CloudTalks. Read the full press release for Veeam's latest Availability Report below. [easy-tweet tweet="Richard Agnew of @Veeam speaks to @Co...

CTC Editorial Team 17 February 2016
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Do the metrics of a data centre impact upon its agility?

IT operations managers need to understand how their data centre is performing in order to make better decisions about how and where to invest in their IT infrastructure. Key to those right-sized inves...

Rhian Wilkinson 17 February 2016
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IT Recruitment and the munching cloud

If the IT industry marketing machine would have you think that I'm writing my job/skills predictions sat on a sun kissed beach accessing and tapping my prophesies into a totally secure cloud which sit...

Rhian Wilkinson 17 February 2016