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We saw a few more developments during the latter half of the week that reflects some ongoing themes in the industry. Telx partnered with a company called AppCore, which wants to help equip service providers with turnkey cloud infrastructure capabilities. This is just the latest move from colocation providers moving hard to build an ecosystem of cloud providers within their facilities. It is seen as a way to offset the impact of cloud, serve existing enterprise customers and encourage hybrid – in order to facilitate more footprint growth while driving interconnection revenue. Cloud node expansion also maintains steady momentum outside these developing ecosystems and this last week saw UK2 unveil its newly expanded cloud footprint. It is clear that cloud is increasingly about global scope and coverage, low latency, end user performance and compliance.

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