Latest Cloud Interviews

Chris Folkerd is Director of Enterprise Technologies at UK cloud hosting company UKFast. Conceived in the bedroom of a tiny flat just off Manchester’s Oxford Road over twenty years ago, UKFast has grown into a multi-million-pound business which, via its five UK data centres, hosts the critical infrastructure of a raft of big-name organisations, including Chester Zoo and the NHS.

Cloud is an attractive option for cash-strapped care providers, but security must remain top of the agenda The healthcare industry has been slower to embrace the cloud than other sectors, but amid growing cutbacks on IT resources, providers are increasingly attracted by cloud cost efficiencies. Like any other business, hospitals must ensure they implement data… Read More

Cloud is enabling retail banks to pursue a fertile innovation agenda, but they may be too preoccupied with time-to-market and customer retention at the expense of backend and back-office systems, says Allan Brearley Despite initial hesitancy over the regulatory and security risks, most retail banks are now one way or another onboard with cloud. Over the... Read More

To achieve the full potential of what financial services can offer society, we need to unlock the full engineering power of all the great minds sitting in retail banking engineering teams, James McLeod, software engineering lead at Lloyds Banking Group tells John Bensalhia “We’re moving so fast it’s important to look back to see just... Read More

It’s not just business operations that have been disrupted by digital transformation. Thanks to the advent of cloud and the “as a service” paradigm, the business of selling IT has completely turned on its head, writes award-winning sales veteran Fiona Challis The only constant in the IT market today is change. As technology continues to... Read More

The way in which we consume television and radio continues to change, as John Bensalhia discovers in a discussion with the BBC’s Ross Kemp Founded in 1922, and credited as being the world’s oldest national broadcasting organisation, the BBC is an institution with nearly a century of notable achievements. But it’s not resting on its... Read More

Fresh viewing methods and innovations have turned traditional TV on its head. John Bensalhia speaks to YouView's Ryan French about the cloud services and DevOps processes that underpin broadcasting 2.0 When John Logie Baird demonstrated the pioneering television in 1926, he couldn't have foreseen that in the future, everyone would be able to tune in... Read More

Cloud offers benefits that can create a great competitive advantage for European businesses. But just how much awareness is there of its value? John Bensalhia finds out from President of EuroCloud Europe, Dr Tobias Höllwarth The technological revolution has arrived. With technology creating opportunities in businesses and everyday lifestyles, it's a trend that is set to... Read More

Inspired by mumuration – the majestic self-organising, self-directed movement of flocks of starling birds – StarlingX backs itself as the open source software solution for the edge. The Stack spoke to two key pillars of the project – Wind River and Intel – to understand why they are pushing the edge open source The stage… Read More