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Dan Worth

20 March 2017 • 2 min read

DFS resorts to cloud to help handle spikes in online demand

Furniture chain DFS has shifted to Rackspace in a bid to better handle spikes in online demand during its busiest trading days. The company claims that it has seen an average 34 per cent increa...

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