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05.18.12
The 10th Cloud Circle Forum Reviewed

The Cloud Circle reaches double figures for Forums, with GlaxoSmithkline, G-Cloud, Schroders and West Midlands Ambulance Service among the speakers.

05.21.12
BYOD boosts morale

Bring your own device helps improve job satisfaction, survey suggests.

05.14.12
Big rise in SME cloud uptake

Spiceworks' latest global small and medium sized business survey reveals that cloud adoption has almost doubled and IT budgets have grown healthily over the last year.

05.08.12
Cloud Talk 007: Cash saver or money maker?

Survey after survey reveal that organisations’ main objective in moving to cloud is to save money. But why not focus on making it instead? Mark Young writes.

05.01.12
West Midlands Ambulance Service added to The 10th Cloud Circle Forum bill

NHS Trust ambulance crew - who recently adopted collaborative cloud services for 4,000 staff - will speak at Forum on May 17.

04.25.12
Cloud Notes 015: Chaos Monkey

It may sound like Hollywood flop with a z-list cast, but Chaos Monkey is actually a great means of testing an organisation’s cloud services. Dominic Pollard explains more.

04.25.12
Vodafone to move into enterprise IT with CWW purchase

Mobile giant looks to buy Cable & Wireless Worldwide in £1bn deal.

04.24.12
Toby Moore, Mind Candy: King of the Tech City start-ups

Toby Moore is the chief technology officer (CTO) at Mind Candy – the company that created and runs the global kids’ educational social gaming phenomenon Moshi Monsters. He gives Mark Young an insight into the unique, modern business ideologies that have propelled Mind Candy to unrivalled growth over the last nine years and discusses the firm’s adoption of big data and cloud.

04.11.12
Julian Burnett, CTO, Sainsbury’s: An IT shopping list

Julian Burnett has been the CTO of Sainsury’s, one of Britain’s leading retailers, for a little over two years. In his time there his sourcing and implementing of technologies to suit the needs and objectives of the company has proven successful. He tells Dominic Pollard how he goes about the task in hand.

04.05.12
Interview: Pete Smith, Songkick

Announced today, Tech City’s next ‘Silicon Milkroundabout’ jobs fair will take place in May. The event’s organiser, Songkick founder Pete Smith, tells The Cloud Circle about the rationale behind the event and what his company looks for in new recruits.

04.04.12
Cloud Talk 005: Beware of false advertising

The term cloud computing has been around for a while. Cloud computing itself, as we know and use the term, has been around before it was given its current moniker. But to what extent are cloud providers delivering cutting edge transformational IT services or how much are they just sticking new labels on old products? Dominic Pollard explores.

03.22.12
Feature: Put it on my tab

With the new Apple iPad hitting the shelves last week, Mark Young explores the enterprise case for tablets. The plethora of benefits these devices offer a business is undeniable – but a balancing act between security and functionality has to take place.

02.16.12
Barclays announces tablet roll out

Bank to give mobile computing devices to slected back office staff and hopes to eventually roll out to branch based employees.

02.16.12
Public sector lethargy on cloud

Despite the launch of the G-Cloud looming and the results of a new survey suggesting 62 per cent of public sector organisations want to adopt cloud services, many are failing to act.

02.02.12
Cloud to fuel growth

A report released by LSE has stated that the increase in cloud adoption will fuel the creation of jobs and new firms.

02.02.12
Royal Aeronautical Society case study: Cloud helps avoid crash landing

The Royal Aeronautical Society flies high as a learned body providing standards to the global aviation industry. It’s appropriate, then, that the organisation should turn to cloud for operational and cost efficiencies. Mark Young explores.

01.19.12
The 3rd Cloud Circle Annual Member Networking event

Find out all the details of The Cloud Circle's next event which promises to be an interesting and insightful evening.

01.17.12
Banking on the cloud

Barclays Africa has deployed a new job management solution for its staff of 22,000.

01.13.12
CloudTalk 004 - Upheaval for ICT in schools, can the teachers cope?

Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, announced plans this week to replace the UK's currently out-dated ICT curriculum with one focussed on computer science. Is this good news for secondary school IT students and does the current crop of teachers have the necessary skills to deliver the new curriculum? Dominic Pollard explores.

01.13.12
Embracing enterpise social networks

Social networks for the business is no oxymoron. Mark Young provides an overview of some of the different options on the market.

01.12.12
BBVA rolls into cloud

The Spanish banking giant BBVA has announced a cloud deal with Google for its team of 110,000 employees.

01.10.12
BYOD opens can of worms

A survey has revealed that the consumerisation of IT and 'bring your own device' is causing concerns among CIOs.

01.06.12
Council moves to cloud

Hillingdon council is going to be the first local authority to move fully into the cloud, with major cost savings.

01.05.12
Comet faces lawsuit

Technology giant Microsoft is going to sue retail chain Comet over the sale of counterfeit recovery discs.

12.15.11
Allen & Overy advise on cloud computing

Allen & Overy, an international law firm, has released an article on the legal and regulatory issues surrounding the cloud.