Firstly apologies for not updating this blog. The fact that I haven't had the time to update it is that our Cloud business has been going bananas and it's ironic that I should be blogging about the "future" of Cloud yet it is so busy at the moment. A very good sign I hope..
For those of you who follow Quantix, you will know that circa 3 years ago we started to build an cloud infrastructure across 2 DCs in the UK. We are getting a lot of pressure to expand into the US, however, I have been pleasantly surprised how important a UK presence has been to customers. As many companies need data to reside in the UK, 2 local DCs are a must for disaster recovery.
We now have 50 plus customers running on the infrastructure and on the whole, most of these clients have moved major applications onto the platform. The main usage being database heavy e-commerce apps, Hosted Exchange 2010 & Business Continuity.
The combination of a scalable cost effective platform, with our managed service team overlay has found us in a great spot whereby customers want Quantix to take full responsibility for management up to a DB or App level.
I still think public clouds like Amazon are a great fit for companies wanting a DIY approach however, when you are trusting a business critical app to the cloud, you need the provider to take responsibility.
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