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← View all opinionsBy Marcus Cauchi of Sandler Training The recent tie up of Oracle and Salesforce.com (see here for article) got me to thinking. On the surface this is about tying up their technologies but underpinning...
By Michael Worley, Director at Spark33 The Mobile landscape is new, exciting, and often confusing. It can be a challenge to fully grasp even the fundamentals. Spark33 work closely with start-ups and e...
By Jessica Barry, The APM Group: Independent Certification partner to the Cloud Industry Forum While many people (including myself) may not understand how cloud computing is technically delivered to t...
By Nick Prescot, Information Security Analyst, Firehost In the increasingly complex world of hosting – shared, dedicated managed, virtualised and the like, there is an increasing concern about data ow...
“Help! The NSA and GCHQ have been snooping on my data under Prism. I'm going to leave cloud and go back to on-premise as that's the only way I can be sure to keep my data safe from prying eyes.” If th...
By Marcus Cauchi of Sandler Training I have a colleague who is prospecting with a company selling AS400 PaaS solutions to financial institutions. They are about go into a meeting with over 15 of the p...
By Daniel Steeves, Director at Beyond Solutions So, they can see it all… and they really are watching! For the past six years, PRISM (under public ownership) and that other form of Big Brother, the In...
By Mark Adams, CCO of Cloudmore [quote_box_center] It's 2025 and you are the franchise owner of a city-based car dealership. The manufacturer of the cars you sell has just arrived... He says to you: “...
By Frank Jennings, Cloud Lawyer It is likely that, after Sarbanes-Oxley, the most widely feared and misunderstood piece of US legislation - at least in the cloud sector - is the Patriot Act. According...
By Jim Darragh, CEO of Abiquo We've all heard of ‘Cloud' we all understand it and know the benefits it can bring, so I'm not here to preach to the choir, but what I will do is challenge you; I want yo...
By Paul Bevan, Director of Surefire Sales We have heard a lot recently, even within the recent portals of ComparetheCloud, about the need to change the way we sell. While there is always a danger in o...
By Chris Purrington, VP of Sales at CohesiveFT CohesiveFT is company ‘born in the cloud'. Since 2006 we've been helping our customers to use cloud computing, and that whole time we've been focused on...