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Barbarian at the gate: Verizon’s disruptive CloudSwitch buy
Verizon’s buy of innovative startup CloudSwitch is a nasty surprise to those who deny the growing power of telcos in the cloud. After all, who would expect a telco to buy a firm that helps enterprises migrate apps securely to their competitors’ clouds, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Windows Azure? Who’s the barbarian now?… Read more
In with the old: COBOL in the cloud
Verbose and a tad over 50: No, I’m not referring to the typical chief executive. I’m talking about COBOL, the ‘50s-era programming language still casting a long shadow over enterprise ICT. It’s often stated that young firms are rapid adopters of cloud computing – particularly software as a service. But if older firms are proving… Read more
