Maxwell Cooter

Max is a freelance journalist who has covered a wide variety of IT subjects. He was the founder editor of Cloud Pro, the UK's first dedicated cloud publication. He also founded and edited IDG's Techworld and prior to that was editor of the UK's first networking weekly newspaper, Network Week.

As a freelancer, he has contributed to IDG Direct, SC Magazine, Computer Weekly, Computer Reseller News, Internet magazine, PC Business World and many others, including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. He has also spoken at many conferences and has been a commentator for the BBC, ITN and computer TV channel CNBC.

Max trained as a programmer but became more interested in writing about computers and re-trained as a journalist. He studied at Bradford University and the London College of Printing.

Maxwell Cooter

Open source groups spar over Google trademark initiative This article is sponsored by:

The new trademark initiative has caused a row in the open source community, but has Google picked up on a traditionally underrepresented area of IP?

Cloud adoption builds essential agility into SBAB's banking model This article is sponsored by:

Cloud transformation is giving Swedish bank SBAB a fighting chance against larger rivals.

Nordea banks on move to machine-led decision making This article is sponsored by:

Swedish bank Nordea is on a path that many banks are following, although a move away from human interaction to machine-led decision making is still in early stages. But early result are promising.

The need for speed - cloud demands from Folk2Folk This article is sponsored by:

Cloud is all about speed, flexibility and agility: it’s why customers want it and providers need to be able to respond to those needs quickly – if you’re not supporting your customers, you’re going to be history.