Interviews
"We have a lot of data, a huge amount of website traffic and we're constantly shipping product functionality..."
On dumping VMware, 8,000 databases, scepticism about systems integrators and positivity about the cloud…
“We've brought a consumer-influenced subscription concept to the world of enterprise storage, whereby customers don't own assets but instead pay for the data they store."
"The paradox is that we often find more about how technology works when it breaks, rather than when we’re working with Powerpoint and doing sales jobs."
"RFPs now look much more thought-out: Cloud security is very much established in most CISOs’ minds as a category.”
"For us, GenAI is an efficiency play. We're moving the needle and helping our lawyers become more effective."
"A simulation on a wastewater catchment system, … will typically be run overnight and will take several hours to do"
When Virgin Media O2 was facing scalability issues and demand peaked during its pre-sale ticketing events, it shifted to a cloud native paradigm with a focus on managed solutions.