Gregg Petersen / Emirates Business At almost every conference, event or analyst meeting you attend, you’ll hear someone discuss how your business can benefit from the Operating Expense (OPEX) model, greater agility, and faster deployment speeds offered by the public cloud. But let’s be honest: If you go to your internal IT staff and propose the public cloud, you’ll ...

  Bloomberg Even as speculation builds over whether OPEC will clinch an output deal with Russia this month, their negotiations are already paying off. Hedge funds and other investors reversed their bets on falling oil prices at the fastest pace in five months after producers said they would meet in Algiers, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission show. ...

  Bloomberg While Colombia’s recent agreement to end 52 years of internal war with its largest insurgent group has been heralded across the globe as a rare victory for peace, the nation’s oil industry fears the deal may increase turmoil, not reduce it. Parts of the accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, will amplify the risk ...