
Big telcos with cloudy pretensions
Two stories in the past week, to remind us that big telecoms incumbents have the customer relationships, the brand recognition, the data centres, the network and the ambition to offer cloud services. These are normally aimed at their existing customers, particularly big enterprises with existing co-lo relationships to these telcos. They’re also, normally, aimed at […]

German Clouds… And No, That’s Not a Joke
At the risk of inviting jokes along the lines of “ve haf vays of making you kloud”, I wanted to comment on the recent news that Deutsche Telekom is pushing German regulators to introduce a certification for German or European cloud operators in order to protect customers against the keen eyes of the US Government. […]