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But Adcock claims the future of colocation managed services is hard to define over the next few years .
“ Now , with your cloud , you ’ ve got private , public and hybrid ,” he explains . “ What colocation does , and always will , is allow the smaller companies as they ’ re growing a stepping stone .
“ But equally , with the Amazon and Microsoft , they ’ re almost virtualising that colocation process – and to the same extent , we are , through the service exchange . That gives you the chance to connect to a lot of different services , and electronically , where in the past you used to have
the physical cross connects . “ They ’ ll still be around , but I think the business is evolving and virtualising a lot of those features . I think the big thing is going to be ‘ bots ’, so rather than speaking to a person , it ’ s an automated service .”
He uses the analogy of driverless cars , saying a lot of those features are already currently in the background , ditto with aeroplane auto pilots , “ but we still have pilots there to step in when something out of left field happens that hasn ’ t been programed in , and would take some time for a computer to adapt .
“ There ’ s always going to be a future
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