Cloud Elements claims that on average, enterprise companies have over 1000 cloud services running, and making them all operate together has proven challenging for organizations.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital-rights advocacy group based in San Francisco, issues an annual report, called "Who Has Your Back," that grades over a dozen cloud services, phone companies, and Internet service providers.
"The usefulness of Peak Drive over other secure cloud services lies in collaboration," he adds.
Sabhlok says this shared code base is a competitive advantage over stand-alone cloud services which may integrate with other cloud services via open APIs, but don't have the built-in integration.
The cloud broker is a concept that has developed over time, as cloud services have grown increasingly complex and large enterprises have had trouble navigating the different vendor offerings.
Alongside Coke's former chief information officer, the late Ed Steinike, Boehme helped transition the soda giant over to public cloud services; helped bring augmented reality technologies into Coke's sales strategy; accelerated the company's use of big data and analytics approaches; and helped push Coca-Cola's adoption of startup technologies through the creation of The Bridge by Coca-Cola.
The company says it currently provides cloud services to over 2,500 companies across the globe (56 countries and counting, with eight languages supported so far).
Even though XP was born well before smartphones and cloud services took over the tech landscape, an extraordinary number of consumers and businesses have clung to it despite Microsoft's best efforts to get them to upgrade to subsequent operating systems.
There are some questions over its use of cloud services and the tracking of user actions, but Windows 10 is the most secure version yet.
Here, control over data of the cloud services provider, or rather cooperation partner, lies with the recipient.
