David Mytton
The Next Web
United Kingdom
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You don't need to be an expert to integrate AI in your startup
We’re used to hearing that AI and machine learning is hopelessly complex, impossible to implement quickly, and that if you want to get on board the machine learning bandwagon you’ll ... → Read More
Can Google’s 20% time really work for your startup?
Google’s 20 percent time is one of the most famous, and arguably successful, management practices of all time. In their 2004 IPO letter, Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin revealed that the policy of allowing employees to take time out of their core jobs to be creative and experimental had led to some of the company’s most successful products. AdSense, which now accounts for about 25… → Read More
Avoid 'Doing A BA': Five Tips To Avoid Website Downtime
Guides, advice and tips for small businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs on subjects like finance, technology, sales and marketing → Read More
Is Google Cloud experiencing challenges going upmarket?
Google's first day keynote did not go down well within the community, focusing on enterprise and with nothing really new to say, but it made up for it on the second day. Are they in danger of forgetting their developer roots? → Read More
The importance of 'dogfooding' in the cloud
Amazon.com runs entirely on AWS EC2 and Microsoft runs Office365, Skype, and XBox Live on Azure. But Google doesn't run any of its products on GCP. Here's why it matters → Read More
Automating Our Content Marketing: What We’ve Learned so Far
This is a guest post for the Distilled blog, kindly written by David Mytton, Founder and CEO of Server Density. “We have serious persuasive power immediately after someone thanks us.” That was Robert Cialdini, author of one the most authoritative books on influence. If you need a dead simple reason as to why content marketing works, look no further than that. It’s all about reciprocity Content… → Read More
How green is your cloud?
The public clouds run by Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft all claim a commitment to green energy -- but the clear leader in this field may surprise you → Read More
Global location wars: Amazon vs. Microsoft vs. Google
The leading public cloud providers are furiously standing up data centers around the world to grab market share country by country → Read More
Why Google thinks it's worth taking on Amazon's cloud service
Google and Amazon have two very different business models for cloud computing. → Read More
Public cloud providers’ end game shouldn’t surprise anyone
In the beginning, public cloud was the only choice. If you had an existing environment on-premise, colocated or with another web hosting company, you couldn’t → Read More
The commodity battle is only one front in the cloud wars
It’s nothing not new to say that there’s a battle raging amongst the cloud providers for the price of compute, storage and networking. Amazon started everything off with regular price cuts — mostly to its own Amazon Web Services to begin with, but now it’s fighting […] → Read More
The next big front for cloud competition: Location, location, location
Cloud vendors need to operate data centers in a diverse range of locations. How does they stack up to each other in terms of geographies, and why is that important? → Read More
Need for speed: Testing the networking performance of the top 4 cloud providers
Recently, Google and Amazon enhanced their networking options, getting a potential leg up in the four-way performance competition between cloud providers. But how do they compare with Rackspace and Softlayer? David Mytton puts all four through their paces to see which service really comes out ahead. → Read More
5 things you probably don’t know about Google Cloud
Not all cloud infrastructure is the same, as David Mytton discovered when he started looking into Google Cloud. The service differs markedly from AWS and SoftLayer in these five key ways. → Read More
For startups, dedicated hardware can be better than cloud
Brace yourself. For established workloads, dedicated hardware is often a better and cheaper option than straight-up cloud deployment. → Read More