Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk
Researchers say more than 80% of FTSE 100 firms rely on cloud services, leaving the UK economy exposed to outages at a few critical regions.
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Britain's US cloud habit is now a billion-pound risk
Britain’s public sector has become deeply reliant on a small number of US cloud giants, and analysts warn the concentration is now a strategic risk. Nearly all UK government organisations spend on hyperscale cloud, with the dependency running into billions of pounds a year. Some 95% of central and local public-sector bodies spent on hyperscale […] This story continues at The Next Web
Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk
Amid calls for digital sovereignty, a report warns that more than 60 percent of UK companies depend on cloud services for critical functions, and an outage in one or more of the big providers could prove costly. Researchers at the Cyber Monitoring Centre nonprofit found a high level of cloud dependence among British firms, rising to more than 80 percent among FTSE 100 firms, and say this means cloud outages will disproportionately affect some of…
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