Cloud Computing: BT’s secure link to Microsoft Azure goes live in Europe
July 19, 2014
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.
BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after the UK telecoms giant teamed up with Microsoft to provide ExpressRoute connection to its Azure service, bypassing the public internet.
The service now connects to Microsoft Azure’s Dublin and Amsterdam datacentres. BT will later follow this up with connections to locations in Asia, the US and further round the world. BT says the issues of security and reliability are still holding many CIOs back from fully embracing the trend. It collaborated with Microsoft so that its enterprise customers can treat the cloud as a seamless, flexible extension to their existing corporate network and datacentres, without any degradation of performance or security…
The Centre for Economics and Business Research has said increased cloud adoption in Europe will help businesses to fuel economic recovery and growth, and that cloud computing could contribute as much as €763bn to major EU economies by 2016. But security continues to be the biggest obstacle preventing users from adopting cloud technologies, with worries about data remaining the top concern…
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