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W
elcome to the April issue of
Data Centre News.
It’s all eyes on London
in April as ExCeL London
opens its doors once again
for visitors to Data Centre World, along with Cloud
Expo Europe, Cloud Security Expo and Smart IoT.
DCN will of course be there and you can catch
a glimpse of what else you can see in our Data
Centre World preview that begins on page 28.
I have visited some of the world’s most
alluring cities but London remains my clear
favourite. OK, there is probably a little bit of
patriotic bias playing a factor there, but it’s not
just me, as London has been described by
Forbes Magazine as the world’s most influential
city. As far as Europe is concerned, London is
currently top of the data centre pyramid as well,
having reclaimed the top spot from Amsterdam
for best performing European data centre
market in 2015, according to the latest data
from