Dr Chris Folkerd, Director of Enterprise Technology at UKFast discusses how businesses can separate the wheat from the chaff when selecting the right cloud strategy.

Puppet EMEA VP, Marianne Calder, looks at how businesses are approaching the newest frontier of IT – automation – and calls on them to embrace this change. 

Ian Bristow, founder and head of online at Internet Fusion, discusses the UK-based retailer’s recent adoption of a new cloud platform

Michael Mudd, managing partner at Asia Policy Partners, discusses the need for change in the way government IT contract terms are operated, particularly in a way that means smaller companies are able to compete.

Ian Moyse, Board Member at Cloud Industry Forum and Director at Natterbox, spoke to The Stack about the lingering concerns over cloud adoption and the rapidly approaching ‘tipping point’, ahead of his session at Cloud Expo Europe, London 2018

Barry Lowry, CIO at the Government of Ireland, discusses the challenges and opportunities for digital transformation in government ahead of his address at Cloud Expo Europe, London 2018

UK industry events ad:tech London and Technology for Marketing (TFM) have joined forces to form the country’s largest marketplace for advertising and marketing technology at Olympia, London on 26-27 September.

Business is good for UK technology as it topped the European investment tables, spearheaded by London.

In the first full year since the Brexit vote, happy venture capitalists plunged £2.99 billion into tech firms in the UK in 2017; nearly twice what was invested the year before.

IoT requires a very broad set of skills, ranging from electronics for sensors, actors and SOCs, to wireless transmission, field bus protocols, messaging and networking, to data centre technologies including data storage, AI, machine learning, API management, mobile/web UIs and legacy application integration and to other areas including end-to-end security, OTA, CI, CD. No one person can have all these skills at once, so be ready to collaborate with others.

Hyperscale, most closely associated with big data and cloud, is the provisioning required in distributed computing environments to efficiently scale from a few servers to thousands of servers in an instant: the public cloud.