Latest articles by Max Cooter
White heat of technology? More like lukewarm
Opinion What would a speech on technology made by a Labour leader sound like today?
Q&A: Jon maddog Hall
In-depth We speak to the free software champion about where he thinks the industry is headed.
Cloud podcast gives plenty of food for thought
Opinion An opportunity to record a podcast meant reflecting on a sharp divide in the way cloud is treated by customers and service providers
Cloud migration: How do you keep an eye on the bill?
Opinion A tool from RightScale looks to take the guess work out of estimating cloud costs ... if only we could remove the human element
OpenStack take-up set for warp factor 10 on its 3rd birthday
Opinion OpenStack's fight with AWS resembles the router battle of the 90s but Rackspace's John Igoe is optmistic for the future
Office of Fair Trading to probe Government IT contracts
News The OFT wants to establish if the public sector is paying over the odds for ICT.
BT chief in show of support for CIOs
News BT Global Services CEO Luis Alvarez claims CIOs still have a very important role to play in the BYOD and cloud era.
Salesforce and Oracle tie-up is the real deal
Opinion Oracle and Salesforce declare their undying love for one another. Or something like that.
Small business owners fail to get to grips with technology
News A new survey has highlighted the gap between large and small business when it comes to cloud technology
Margaret Thatcher and the economics of cloud
Opinion How would have Lady Thatcher have reacted to cloud computing? Relished its opportunity for cost savings probably
Automation no threat to staff productivity
News A new report from the Economic Intelligence Unit shines a light on management automation fears.
Cloud: get the paperwork right or the technology suffers
Opinion It sounds obvious, ensure the paperwork is OK, and the tech takes care of itself - but that's not always the case
Does your company have an IT strategy and how did it choose it?
Opinion Cloud should be part of an IT strategy and that should support the business but how many companies get this right?
Why 2013 won't be the year of the cloud
In-depth Last year saw cloud make its way into the enterprise, but talk of a year of the cloud may be misguided, argues Maxwell Cooter.
Future of cloud computing: looking at the bigger questions
Opinion It could have been dull but the Dell Think Tank threw up some thought-provoking ideas on the future of cloud
BT embarks on collaboration and comms push
News Telco has launched a range of new products to tap into the growing business demand for collaboration services.
Cloud awareness- the ignorance and the naked truth
Opinion Anyone who thinks that we're getting a handle on the cloud should look at the results of a Citrix survey
Dropbox the winner as consumer cloud products thwart CIOs
News Users are increasingly going against company policy to use their preferred cloud products, claims Spiceworks.
Cloud costs: why cloud computing turns out to be cheaper
Opinion Don't be scared by initial bills - cloud does work out in the long run
Why Microsoft's data centre future is based on the point of ordure
News It sounds like the punchline to a thousand jokes but Microsoft gets serious about sewage to meet cloud demand
HP debuts converged cloud offering
News Hardware giant takes wraps off new converged cloud architecture.
Server issues ruin data centre strategy
News IT departments are still struggling to cope with server management, as it continues to take time away from strategic planning.
Sage teams up with Rackspace to deliver CRM to SMBs
News Small business software company Sage is to deliver SaaS-based CRM through a deal with Rackspace.
