Martin Banks

Martin Banks is a long-standing journalist, commentator and analyst covering IT and its impact on business since the very beginning of the PC revolution. Before that, he was covering the development of the semiconductor technologies and microprocessors that have made it all possible.

Martin Banks

Thinking about the little guys - Cohesity's approach to VARs This article is sponsored by:

Back in the day the needs of the little guys found their collective savior in the VAR community. The cloud market has the same need today.

Being the 'manager of the managers' - platform thinking revisited by OutSystems This article is sponsored by:

Prakash Vyas, Head of Portfolio at OutSystems, offers up a low code perspective on some pressing platform issues facing enterprise developers.

When 'freelance' becomes the gig economy, new developer needs emerge alongside the opportunities This article is sponsored by:

The developers’ favourite information and advice repository, Stack Overflow, knows full well the potential of the developer gig economy, and the company is setting itself to ensure that it helps it grow.

Drowning in cloud silos? Time to think about the Curated Cloud This article is sponsored by:

It's time to make life a bit simpler when it comes to selecting and running cloud technologies. I want to talk about the Curated Cloud!

Time for a 'cloud-alike' approach to architecture? Nebulon pitches a deep infrastructure strategy This article is sponsored by:

Are you wasting money on cloud services running applications that would be better off in-house, on-premises, yet know the flexibility of cloud operations is the best place for the application to run? US start up Nebulon would like a word.

AI's 'never-ending journey' to Super Intelligence - MIT's Max Tegmark lays out the route map This article is sponsored by:

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence, Super Intelligence - this is Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics and then some, as MIT's Max Tegmark explains.

In pursuit of General Intelligence - Dynatrace and the death of the dashboard This article is sponsored by:

Dashboards have become the mainstay user interface for the majority of systems management implementations – with some vendors even heard to talk about 'a dashboard of dashboards’ – but that could all change as AI tools become integrated into management systems code and the move to self-management, self-healing and autonomy gathers pace.

To port or not to port to the cloud? Two more CAST iron exemplars This article is sponsored by:

Porting or not porting legacy applications to the cloud is one of the big decisions most enterprises are now having to face - two more expert commentators from CAST's recent gathering.

Lift and shift is easy to say, but the cloud reality can be different - intelligent learnings from Wells Fargo Bank This article is sponsored by:

Cloud modernization can be done, and done successfully, but a simple `lift-and-shift’ it certainly is not.

TIBCO-Citrix Take 2 – gluing together the future’s glue? This article is sponsored by:

Following the news that Citrix and TIBCO are to merge, what potentially lies ahead? Here's one view.

Microsoft/Activision Take 2 - there's a but...a big but This article is sponsored by:

If the metaverse doesn’t provide enough of the market to weld Microsoft and Activision together neatly over the next few years, there is, perhaps another option that will certainly be a major addition in its own right, and could get close to justifying the investment in its own right.

Someone’s talking Blockchain, but don’t run and hide - this is about proof of value This article is sponsored by:

When it comes to producing data, Blockchain is as exponentially explosive as COVID, a drawback that continues to rule it out of serious uptake in most business activities. But maybe US start-up, Vendia, has an answer.

Business, meet 5G - a relationship that will be slow, complex, but essential This article is sponsored by:

The ability to build collaborative infrastructure across all aspects of 5G service provision – including direct competitors – is going to be essential, and quite likely difficult to achieve politically rather than technically.