Hampden's possible role in hosting the football event is likely to be shared with the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Old Trafford in Manchester, St James's Park in Newcastle, Villa Park in Birmingham and Windsor Park in Belfast.

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Designing and implementing shared IT services involves moving existing and new services to the cloud (both government or commercial hosting) to increase service elasticity, reduce system equipment footprints, free IT organizations from the expensive work of data center storage, maintenance, backup and recovery burdens.

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