Newbury-based Micro Focus opens public cloud data centre

By Nicky Godding

1 April 2022

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Micro Focus, one of the world’s largest enterprise software providers, has opened a new public cloud data centre in the UK. The data centre provides improved availability, security, and data sovereignty to UK customers, while boosting Micro Focus’ commitment to on-demand, as-a-service capabilities and flexibility of choice.

Ian Simmons, VP & GM UKI, Micro Focus, said: “As a company, we felt as though it was important to provide customers with an alternative public zone for their data to reside, outside of the EU but still within Western Europe.

“We have supplemented our public cloud offerings to ensure our customers’ needs are met and in addition to our cloud data center in Frankfurt. This UK data center reaffirms Micro Focus’ commitment to investing in the region.”

The launch of the new public cloud data centre aligns with Micro Focus’ ongoing strategy to move away from private data centre business. Working more closely with public cloud providers enhances availability, scalability, and breadth of services for Micro Focus customers. Additionally, with support from its CyberRes division, all of the company’s worldwide data centers are protected with the most advanced security standards. All of Micro Focus’ SaaS services are certified under ISO 27001 and SOC 2.

Micro Focus is one of the world’s largest enterprise software providers, focused on solving the IT dilemma—how to balance today’s needs with tomorrow’s opportunities. We deliver mission-critical technology and supporting services that help tens of thousands of customers worldwide manage core IT elements of their business. Strengthened by a top-10 patent portfolio and an extensive partner network, our broad set of technologies for security, IT operations, application delivery, governance, modernization, and analytics provides the innovative solutions organizations need to run and transform—at the same time.

By Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe.

After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts.

She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.