Is the writing on the wall for the in-house data centre?

Sooraj Shah
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While more and more organisations are happy to rely on third parties to run their core systems, talk of the imminent demise of the in-house data centre is wide of the mark

Shortly after car supermarket Motorpoint was founded in 1998, it made a strategic decision that few organisations would make these days, let alone back then: it would outsource all its data centre ...

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