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The Cloud continues to dominate

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Dob Todorov, CEO and Co-founder of HeleCloud, talks though the company’s recent acquisition by SoftwareONE - optimistic that both organisations and their respective customer bases will see some major benefits as the Cloud continues to grow in importance as the post-pandemic business world seeks to address the challenges and opportunities of hybrid digital transformation.

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One vendor approach to cloud is 'dead'

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According to the results of IBM's new global study on cloud transformation there has been a drastic shift in business needs as only 3% of respondents (1% in the UK) reported using a single private or public cloud in 2021, down from 29% (UK 41%) in 2019 – establishing hybrid cloud as the dominant IT architecture.

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Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Washington (NoVA) named largest retail colo markets

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Mumbai, Seoul, Montreal, Madrid, and Johannesburg have also seen notable rapid growth in the last five years.

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AtlasEdge expands across Europe

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Acquisition establishes collaboration between AtlasEdge and Colt Data Centre Services, with Colt Technology Services becoming an anchor tenant across multiple facilities.

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Edge takes centre stage for Proximity

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John Hall, Managing Director Colocation, Proximity Data Centres, explains the company’s strategy as it builds out a network of 20 or so regional, or edge, UK colocation data centres. With the halfway point already in sight, he is confident that the company’s business model is an attractive proposition for a variety of customers. John also shares some fascinating insights as to how he sees the data centre industry developing over time, as it tries to reconcile increasing demand with its...

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Equinix to build £61 million Manchester Data Centre

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Equinix plans to build a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre in the Agecroft Commerce Park in Salford, Manchester, UK. As the UK’s second-largest city, Manchester occupies a key strategic location at the intersection of the UK’s highly resilient “figure-of-eight” fibre-optic network. The new IBX—called MA5—will be Equinix's fifth data centre in the Greater Manchester area and is scheduled to open in Q2 2022.

Hybrid IT is the new norm

Dimension Data, the global ICT solutions and services provider, has published a new report that...

Advanced workloads are moving to the cloud

Leveraging data virtualisation to create a responsive logical data warehouse can help organisations...

Cloud adoption on the rise, but beware the risks

Druva has published the results of its 2018 State of Virtualization in the Cloud survey to...

Raxio Group continues its pan-African expansion

Following its investments in Uganda, Ethiopia and DRC, the Raxio Group is investing to build and...

Star Alliance takes off with AWS

World’s largest airline alliance selects AWS to build resiliency, improve operational...

R&M updates Colocation Migration Handbook

New ‘partnerships’ section focuses on NTT’s new ‘London 1’ data centre.

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