Brexit spells turbulence for cloud computing: 6 stormy scenarios

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.

The only certainty about the United Kingdom’s move to exit the European Union is the cloud computing ecosystem is going to see some turbulence and uncertainty ahead. Although Brexit rattled the stock markets on Friday, the fallout is just beginning. Enterprises everywhere were planning based on their exposure to the U.K. The currency hit alone is going to ding revenue for many technology companies.

Beyond that initial calculation–you can expect Brexit to be a topic on every earnings conference call in the weeks ahead–there are some real technology logistics to sort out. With that in mind, here’s a speculative stab at a few Brexit scenarios and how they may impact large cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM…

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