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“Clouding the issue” – what’s driving cloud adoption in UK business?

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In an age where businesses need to be more productive with smaller budgets it seems that across the country they’ve started to recognise that cloud solutions can enable them to do exactly this. In fact analysts IDC predict that demand for cloud services will grow by 25% worldwide in 2014 and over $100 billion will be spent before year end.

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AMS-IX has announced that Akamai, the leading provider of cloud services, has become a member of AMS-IX New York. This peering platform is the only Open-IX certified Internet Exchange in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. Akamai has been a member of AMS-IX in Amsterdam for years and is also connected to AMS-IX’ exchanges in Hong Kong and Curacao.

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Empowering digital businesses to accelerate time to market with new business innovation delivered through software.

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Orange’s Business VPN Galerie securely connects enterprise VPNs to cloud services across three continents on the Equinix Cloud Exchange.

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Schneider Electric says that the integration of its Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution, StruxureWare for Data Centers, with HP's Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB), is complete. Enabling an increased level of communication between IT Service Management (ITSM) and DCIM platforms, this integration provides data centre managers with more cohesive management of data centre assets.

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The idea of businesses using proactive security measures that can prevent attacks from the likes of Heartbleed and CryptoLocker, rather than just mop up the consequences afterwards, is gaining traction, with Lancope targeting new proactive tools at these two nasties in particular