Use cloud providers, because you can't compete with their R&D budgets, argues expert panel

Stuart Sumner
Stuart Sumner
clock 27 September 2016 •
Use cloud providers, because you can't compete with their R&D budgets, argues expert panel

'My IT team can't build a different version of Docker just to make my life easier, but AWS can,' says Trainline head of platform delivery

Businesses should use the cloud to host their infrastructure and applications because cloud providers' development budgets far outstrip those at most other firms. That's one of the views to emerge from...

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