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IBM has landed a 10-year cloud and services contract with one of the UK’s biggest and most aggressive privately held firms. Shop Direct, the firm behind Very.co.uk and owner of the Littlewoods brand, will use IBM’s SoftLayer cloud. Financial terms of the contract were not revealed. Andy Wolfe, Shop Direct CIO, told The Reg …

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  1. Will Godfrey Silver badge
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    A business first?

    Someone actually understands the point about not keeping all your eggs in one basket.

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    1. I'm Brian and so's my wife
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      Mushroom

      Re: A business first?

      Productivity will be maintained (or even increased) as long as they don't start using Lotus fsuking Notes!

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        Re: A business first?

        It says they use Office 365. No one sane uses Notes these days.

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