What is Leaseweb Elastic Compute?

Leaseweb is excited to announce that we have released our Elastic Compute product in Canada!  But regardless of where you are in the world, if infrastructure scalability is something your business desperately needs, then this is the solution for you. Leaseweb Elastic Compute is trusted by many companies around the world to deliver a highly […]

Research Reveals Post-COVID UK Cloud Trends

New research commissioned and published by Leaseweb has revealed that over half (55%) of UK IT professionals currently trust public cloud services less than they did two years ago, having run into challenges around usage costs, migration and customer service. In addition, ‘cloud only’ and ‘cloud first’ approaches are in the minority across IT infrastructure […]

What are the infrastructure requirements for Artificial Intelligence?

In the past few years, I have been asked several times about how Leaseweb positions itself towards Artificial Intelligence (AI). As Leaseweb is mainly focusing on delivering fast and reliable Infrastructure as a Service, we’re not offering AI services directly to our customers.    Having said that, we work with many customers who deliver AI services […]

Cloud vs Colocation – or both? Differences and things to know

Are cloud and colocation complementary or competitive solutions? It’s a debate that’s been raging in the wake of the rising dominance of cloud technologies over the past decade.  Offering flexible, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure, demand for cloud solutions jumped as the pandemic hit and businesses moved at speed to support remote workforces and a raft […]

To Mitigate Supply Chain Issues, Look to the Cloud

Even with the global supply chain crisis sparked by the emergence of COVID-19 and a sky-rocketed increase in consumer demand, eCommerce business is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, 2022 is expected to be another record-breaking year for the industry. Total U.S. eCommerce sales are projected to grow 16.1% and will increase 2.5% […]

How the European Union is Rebalancing the Global Cloud Market

The global cloud market needs a major rehaul. Over half of the worldwide cloud market share is dominated by five companies (think AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc.). No industry can operate as a free market (or even really be considered one) when big brands are this dominant, and the cloud market is no exception. Monopolies leave […]

How To Create An Interconnected Cloud Computing Environment

The world of cloud is becoming more and more a world of interconnected cloud services. Using features like Virtual Private Network Tunnels, you can securely interconnect cloud environments with each other over the public Internet. If you run workloads in a public cloud environment (such as Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure) as well as on […]