UK Leads In Private Cloud Adoption

Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 21 2011) Cloud Computing

1. Businesses in the UK are pushing into the cloud at a faster-than-average rate, according to VMware The UK is one of the most advanced markets for data centre virtualisation in Europe, with some British enterprises now reaching the point where 70-80 percent of their x86 estates are virtualised. So said Dave Wright, VMware’s vice president of technology services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), speaking to eWEEK Europe at the VMworld conference in Copenhagen. On average, organisations in the EMEA region have server estates that are 30-35 percent virtualised. The proportion increases for larger enterprises at the higher end of the market. However, in the UK, enterprises are moving closer to a model where the majority of their applications are running on virtual machines or in private clouds. (Read Full Article)

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