The rate of growth is about 40% annually, which is eight times faster than IT spending, says Jane Thomson, MD of Softworx.
As long as data exists in digital format and is stored somewhere on a server, it is available to anyone, says ConVista Consulting.
The company claims it can now provide large-scale data centre solutions to the mid-size market.
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The cloud is where customers are choosing to work, says Patrick Hastings, divisional MD, ATS at Bytes Systems Integration.
The cloud start-up hopes to eliminate the customisation required to build most private clouds.
In the future, high-density areas within a current data centre set-up, or in a completely new environment, will need to be built, says Lex Pienaar, CEO of Merit TS.
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Customers can use the software as a SaaS from the Fujitsu Group's highly reliable cloud environment.
Users are able to centralise data from any number of local systems into a single storage device. [Local rep: Duxbury Networking]