The changing dynamic between the public cloud giants and local hosting providers
With UKFast launching a public cloud consultancy, Tom Wright asks if this is the way forward for all local hosting providers

When Amazon, Google and Microsoft rocked up on UK shores a couple of years ago to build their first set of public cloud datacentres in the region, many were prophesising the end of local hosting providers....
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