Leaving Silicon Valley’s lions for Vultr

I’ve been working and living in Silicon Valley since 2002. At age 21, I joined Oracle as a software engineer. When I met Larry Ellison atop one of the now dormant Oracle towers, he was actually quite friendly, at least to me and some fellow interns. At 24, I joined a wiki startup called JotSpot, in… … Read more

Why ‘experience’ is at the top of the agenda for UK businesses moving to the cloud

In the grand scheme of history, the cloud is still novel – the term ‘cloud computing’ has only been included in the Oxford English dictionary since June 2012. In the world of technology, the cloud is considered ubiquitous! Yet, while Amazon’s release of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006 marked the advent of the infrastructure-as-a-service… … Read more

Yorkshire cloud computing firms join forces to ‘make the impossible, possible’

Two Yorkshire headquartered cloud tech firms – both headquartered in Yorkshire have collaborated in the hope they can supercharge the digital transformation solutions delivered to clients. Managed IT specialist CloudCoCo, based in Leeds, will strengthen the cybersecurity offering provided by Huddersfield’s Vapour. And in return, network specialist Vapour will enhance CloudCoCo’s infrastructure with the addition… … Read more

Global cloud computing market to reach nearly £600bn by 2028

The global cloud computing market is expected to reach $791.5 billion (£578.8bn) in size by 2028, more than three times its current 2021 valuation of $250 billion (£182.8bn). Charting the market’s expected growth, Fortune Business Insights found in its report, titled “Cloud Computing Market, 2021-2028”, that the period will see a 17.9% compound annual growth… … Read more