Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia's Nuage Networks powers sports data analysis; BT Global Services turns to SevOne; Helios enters South African market.

Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe

January 15, 2019

3 Min Read
Eurobites: UKCloud Seeks to Make Hay From Post-Brexit Mayhem

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia's Nuage Networks powers sports data analysis; BT Global Services turns to SevOne; Helios enters South African market.

  • As the hours tick by to tonight's "meaningful vote" by the British parliament on whether to back Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, one UK cloud provider thinks it has spotted a post-Brexit business opportunity (assuming Britain does decide to strike out for the EU-free sunlit uplands on its own). UKCloud, a multicloud provider that specializes in services to the public sector, has expanded its "sovereign cloud platform" -- drawing on data centers physically located under UK jurisdiction -- so that it will ready to cope with an anticipated surge in demand for this service if/when Britain leaves the EU. UKCloud claims that its investment has been "driven by an increasing number of UK public sector organisations contacting them about potential capacity -- in some cases to support new systems required post-Brexit and, in other cases, as a contingency due to concerns about the continued use of non-UK hosting options."

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Paul Rainford

Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading

Paul is based on the Isle of Wight, a rocky outcrop off the English coast that is home only to a colony of technology journalists and several thousand puffins.

He has worked as a writer and copy editor since the age of William Caxton, covering the design industry, D-list celebs, tourism and much, much more.

During the noughties Paul took time out from his page proofs and marker pens to run a small hotel with his other half in the wilds of Exmoor. There he developed a range of skills including carrying cooked breakfasts, lying to unwanted guests and stopping leaks with old towels.

Now back, slightly befuddled, in the world of online journalism, Paul is thoroughly engaged with the modern world, regularly firing up his VHS video recorder and accidentally sending text messages to strangers using a chipped Nokia feature phone.

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