UK firms not formalising a cloud computing strategy

The majority of the UK’s small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) have no plans to formalise a cloud computing strategy, according to the findings from Close Brothers’ quarterly survey of UK SME owners and senior management from a range of sectors.

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Teraco aims for 50-megawatt data centre offering in South Africa

Africa’s largest colocation data centre provider, Teraco Data Environments, has kicked off construction on a new data centre in River Fields Bredell, 20km north of the current Isando campus. While Teraco finalises the expansion of its Isando campus to 20 megawatts, it has commenced with the new 24 megawatt Bredell build.

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Missguided drives accelerated growth with AWS and Claranet

Missguided is a ‘rapid fashion’ multi-channel brand, aimed at the 16-25 female market. Started from scratch in 2008 by Nitin Passi, who still owns 100 per cent of the business, it now has turnover in the hundreds of millions. It has enjoyed rapid growth in the UK and has subsequently expanded its operations into Australia, France, USA, Germany, and Spain. The company’s long-term mission is to transform the successful medium-sized business into a global fashion brand.

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Cloud traffic to dominate the data centre

In the unveiling of the sixth annual Cisco® Global Cloud Index (2015-2020), cloud traffic is expected to rise 3.7-fold, up from 3.9 zettabytes (ZB) per year in 2015 to 14.1 ZB per year by 2020. This rapid growth of cloud traffic is attributed to increased migration to cloud architectures due to their ability to scale quickly and efficiently support more workloads than traditional data centers.

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Interoute opens for business in Miami

New Point-of-Presence expands Interoute’s Americas coverage and supports access to South America.

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Linux Foundation releases 2016 Guide to the Open Cloud

Free directory lists the most useful, influential and promising open source cloud projects.

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