The past 12 months have seen the runners and riders of the cloud market rocked by economic uncertainty, which in some cases has led to some notably downbeat financial results being reported as enterprise users looked to scale back their cloud use for money-saving reasons.
At the same time, the government’s cloud strategy has come under scrutiny for failing to do enough to encourage public sector organisations to use homegrown providers over the US-based hyperscalers, in the wake of the news that one UK-based provider has gone out of business as a result.