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BT's struggling Global Services division has inked a deal with AWS to flog its cloudy services in a bid to reinvent itself as a "digital" business. The love-in is intended to allow enterprises to ramp up their adoption of cloud-based services, with a focus on networking, security and managed cloud services. The UK's former …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    "Technology trends mean that we are now less dependent on owning physical local network assets around the world, creating the opportunity to reposition Global Services as a more focused digital business. We are therefore restructuring our Global Services organisation to enable this strategic refocusing."

    In india. Or more latterly for GS, in Romania.

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    1. Kennelly
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      Which is it? Restructuring, Repositioning or Refocusing?

      Patterson needs to make up his mind, because if you refocus something and then reposition it, you're going to need to refocus it again. Throw restructuring into the mix, and who knows what'll happen.

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  2. TheVogon

    Of course if you use Azure you can just peer with Equinix and / or Megaport etc to connect to Azure ExpressRoute... No need for anyone to dig up anything...

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    BT Cloud Compute

    As a customer of it's current Legacy BT Cloud Compute, running on Citix Cloud Platform. it's unreliable utter b0ll0cks, and BT Cloud Compute Support (which is mostly a call centre front to IPSOFT) are a useless bunch of fuck5.

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  4. Riz

    Do Global Services currently create road traffic chaos as they dig up roads outside the UK to sort out cabling?

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  5. Elmer Phud

    Global

    Ah, take me back to the heady days when a BT team crossed the globe looking for buyers of the Monarch PBX system.

    It think it got three sales.

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