Monthly Archives: December 2013

Are UK data centres at risk from energy price rises?

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Are UK data centres at risk from energy price rises? Hardly a day goes by recently where there isn’t a story in the news about rising gas and electricity prices. Focus tends to be on residential rates, but business rates are affected too - and with the added complexity of daily standing charges on top of a fixed unit rate, plus VAT at the full rate and the Climate Change Levy (CCL) - it’s no wonder that businesses like data …

Which way is the Cloud blowing?

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Which way is the Cloud blowing? Whatever we may think and however much or how little we believe the marketing hype, Cloud computing offers benefits to both users and providers - which cannot be achieved in any other way. The take-up of Cloud may not have been as instant as some would have liked us to believe in the early days, but it is unquestionably the way the world has been going, and will continue to go. In our last …