Danny Hook, director of enterprise at Gibtelecom, gives iNTERGAMINGi his insight on the data sector, the company’s cloud services and where he believes the industry is headed.

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DATA centres are seen a little like the dark arts but put simply, those who host and network the igaming sector are the engines or the workhorses of the industry. Without the reliability, security and availability data centres provide there would be no igaming.

It is interesting to understand how a number of the data centre providers established a niche offering for the igaming sector. Early entrants were founded by a combination of technical knowledge and business entrepreneurship, with huge success. Typically, the founders of these early movers were very hands on, they wanted to manage and control their own infrastructure. This and the establishment of gaming-friendly jurisdictions led to the rise in “offshore” data centres in places such as Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Malta, Alderney, Kahnawake and Curacao. Companies were looking for regulated jurisdictions and secure facilities to host their infrastructure.

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