Businesses looking to capitalize on digital transformation efforts are building strategies around cloud environments and cloud services—hoping to improve service connectivity to end users and reduce overhead related to on-premise data centers. For years, IT decision-makers based their cloud computing strategies predominantly on criteria such as web application services offered,…
In a previous blog post, we covered the reasons why we embarked on releasing a Public Cloud Performance Benchmark Report, the breadth and depth of data gathered, and how the report can help IT leaders and architects to make data-driven decisions. In this post, we’re going to explore a couple…
Public cloud providers are everywhere, literally. In fact, it’s not an exaggeration to say that in echoes of the “Great Game” of olde, the big three cloud providers—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud (GCP) are in a great race for cloud dominance. Analyst research firms predict that…
As of January of 2018, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has mandated the nine largest UK Banks—Allied Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, Barclays, Danske Bank, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, RBS Group, and Santander—to open up their data to third parties using a standard format. The mandate, known as…