Daisy Group CEO Neil Muller has placed customer adoption of cloud technology at the centre of his strategy to power the success and growth of UK business.
Addressing more than 1,500 delegates at Microsoft’s prestigious ‘Future Decoded’ event at London’s Excel (Wednesday), Muller described cloud as “a better and fundamentally new way of doing things.” And he called on businesses of all sizes to switch on to the transformational opportunities cloud technology presents.
Microsoft today announces that Daisy Group, a leading managed services provider, has adopted Microsoft Azure as part of a modernisation programme to reshape both the business and the services it offers to customers.
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A new study, carried out by Kaspersky Lab, has revealed that close to a quarter of Europe?s businesses are seriously worried about the threat post by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to TechWeek Europe.
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Last week Reuters reported that a growing number of companies in the insurance industry are taking advantage of big data solutions in the cloud, so that they can better assess risk and calculate premiums.
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This month social networking giant, Facebook, revealed that it will be building a second data centre based in Europe, to serve its hundreds of millions of customers relying on new technologies to make it a more cost effective and future-proof platform for hosting.
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Analysts at IMS Research believe that the usage of colocation hosting services will continue to increase over the next four years, particularly in North America, where the market is expected to generate $10 billion (£6.25 billion) in revenues annually by 2017.
What makes this state of affairs all the more interesting is that companies in the US have shown a greater eagerness than their European counterparts to adopt cloud solutions, which could be seen as somewhat oppositional to colocation services.
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European businesses are expected to spend more on harnessing colocation hosting and managed hosting solutions over the next few years, according to a new report from TechNavio.
The report includes predictions for how the market will expand between now and 2016, establishing that the CAGR (compound annual growth rate) will hit 16.35% during this period.
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A study, published last month by TeleGeography, has looked at how pricing structures for colocation hosting can vary on either side of the Atlantic, with businesses in the United States often having to factor in the added expense of cross-connects.
While this particular type of networking component can be a costly feature across the pond, the report also found that London plays host to one of the world’s most expensive colocation hosting markets, with average prices exceeding equivalent solutions in cities such as Paris, Frankfurt, New York and Los Angeles.
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