by Kate Gawron | Jan 21, 2019 | Cloud, Events, Kate Gawron, Oracle
On the 16th/17th January I was lucky enough to get to attend Oracle Openworld. I’d never been before so didn’t know what to expect, nor a clue about what the best ‘strategy’ was, more on that later! I diligently went through the entire agenda before I went and marked...
by Andy Slater | Dec 12, 2018 | Azure, Cloud, Data, DevOps
CASE STUDY ORGANISATION: Santa & the Elves Ltd SECTOR: Not for Profit Digital now spans across the entire organisation, impacting everything from research to customer engagement and internal culture. We’ve gone in with both boots pushing on with...
by Julian Boneham | Nov 30, 2018 | AWS, Azure, Cloud, Julian Boneham
I work for a Managed Services Provider (MSP). We own a UK-centric network, multiple datacentres and have many teams of highly skilled technical staff who manage customer systems which are hosted on our infrastructure. We have over 1000 customers and it’s...
by Izzi Fuller | Nov 13, 2018 | Cloud, Data, DevOps, Events, Izzi Fuller, Serverless
Yesterday I attended Day One of Serverless Computing London. Unsurprisingly the theme of the day was ‘serverless’ and the general gist was serverless is here, and it’s here to stay. We explored the past, present and future of serverless, the security risks it brings,...
by Matthew Skelton | Sep 19, 2018 | Azure, Cloud, DevOps, Matthew Skelton
Key Points As technology decision-makers or architects we need to understand the trajectory of modern cloud tools/platforms so we can make investment decisions Some of the cloud technology offerings have deep complexity and need a significant investment –...
by Julian Boneham | Sep 12, 2018 | Azure, Cloud, Data, Julian Boneham, SQL Server
The launch of SQL Server 2008 created a significant turning point where Microsoft customers could be confident their critical applications would operate in a scalable and resilient environment. End-users and application developers alike started to use SQL Server 2008...