Maxwell Cooter - author at diginomica

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.

Articles by 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.

Transforming scientific research with OpenStack This article is sponsored by:

The Naturalis Biodiversity Center is digitising its organisation using open source technologies, supporting the needs of researchers.

Volkswagen drives towards multi-cloud digital transformation This article is sponsored by:

For once, a company has taken digital transformation to mean more than superficial changes - progress towards the future at Volkswagen.

Open source cloud drives Volkswagen's DevOps culture transformation This article is sponsored by:

The German automotive manufacturer has rolled out Mirantis OpenStack cloud as it pursues agility in an uncertain car market.

A question of trust This article is sponsored by:

Trust remains an abiding barrier to cloud adoption, according to delegates at a recent conference in Brussels.

Field service organizations - the human touch This article is sponsored by:

Organizations have to manage the change that field service workers go through when a new technology is implemented to keep the human touch.

Data center powerplays as global energy supplies hit This article is sponsored by:

Data center operators take electricity for granted, but that may have to change, says Maxwell Cooter.

Virgin Racing's approach to data mixing powers lessons for the future of business This article is sponsored by:

Virgin Racing team’s handling of structured and unstructured data is a pointer of the way companies are going to be doing business in future.

HPE turns the page on catalog approach to cloud services This article is sponsored by:

HP may have been playing cloud catch-up, but HPE intends to make up for lost time with a new catalog approach to cloud service delivery.

OpenStack delivers more flexibility for Lithium This article is sponsored by:

Lithium has gone from using OpenStack to "get developers feet wet" to being a key part of the firm's cloud and business strategies.