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A bright, solid future for Scotland

Published in Cloud + MS DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Infrastructure Security Storage

brightsolid, the cloud hosting and data centre service provider, has announced the successful entry on to the Scottish Government’s Hosting Services Framework. The framework enables public sector organisations to purchase hosting services from brightsolid, without having to go through a lengthy procurement process. As one of several framework suppliers selected, brightsolid will now offer cloud and co-location services to central government, local authorities, the NHS, and universities...

Published in Cloud + MS DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Infrastructure Security Storage

A new report, European Cloud & Hosting Providers - the Top 250, produced by IT Europa, shows a steadily growing sector, with much of the growth coming through the independent companies rather than giant publicly-listed firms. The total revenues for companies in the report rose by just 1.5% in 2014 over the previous year, but reached €92bn in Europe.

Published in Cloud + MS Infrastructure Security Storage

Proact has been chosen to supply a new IT infrastructure system including, deployment services, consulting and 24x7 premium support to the housing loan company SBAB. This has considerably greater capacity and higher performance than the previous solution which it replaces at the company’s data centre. This system will primarily be used for internal file storage and for the development and testing environment.