The tech pioneer with his head in the cloud

INTERNET pioneer Dr Mike Kelly, who was one of the first to foresee the rise of data centres, believes the development of cloud computing will be the next big online innovation.

A former Manchester University academic, Dr Kelly launched Telecity in 1998 when there was just one other data centre in Europe.

He helped build it to a market capitalisation of £1bn during the dotcom boom before the crash cut demand and it was taken private for £58m in 2005. The business returned to the stock market two years later.... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...