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Symantec sells digital certificate business – good or bad for customers & partners?

Wed, 9th Aug 2017
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Symantec has sold its digital certificate business to DigiCert - the question is what will be the implications? We talk to both sides to find out.
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Sunbird's new release to drive faster and more secure data centre management

Tue, 8th Aug 2017
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The release is designed to provide data centre managers with enhanced tools that enable easy and agile responses to their most common challenges.
Hand data

Want to cause chaos? ICIT says hacking elections is easy

Mon, 7th Aug 2017
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Hackers at DEFCON were able to exploit vulnerabilities in voting machines in a matter of minutes - ICIT breaks down just how easy it is.
Big fish eat small fish

Silent-Aire breaks into European data centre market with acquisition

Mon, 7th Aug 2017
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Silent-Aire has acquired the Dublin-based manufacture of bespoke air handling equipment, RMI Engineering in a move to establish an EU headquarters.
Road into the sky

ESG finds businesses improving with cybersecurity – but still a long way to go

Fri, 4th Aug 2017
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While CEOs and corporate boards no longer shy away from cybersecurity strategy as they once might have, there are still a number of shortcomings.
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KOTRA reports opportunities for South Korean IT companies in Canada

Fri, 4th Aug 2017
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Following complications in the U.S., Canada has been touted as the 'Second Silicon Valley' presenting a huge opportunity for Asian IT companies.
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Interoute rolls out global cloud-based storage service with Cloudian

Fri, 4th Aug 2017
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Interoute launches cloud-based storage service using Cloudian technology, offering fast, reliable and low-cost storage for unstructured data.
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Equinix appoints company veteran to oversee next phase of growth

Thu, 3rd Aug 2017
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Meyers will lead the strategic business teams driving the company's next phase of growth as it focuses on the future needs of customers and partners.
Business tug of war

Traditional data centre vs micro data centre deployments - who wins?

Thu, 3rd Aug 2017
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The weigh-up of the cost effectiveness of a single traditional data centre of one MW capacity against a cluster of micro data centres each of 5kW.
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UK SMBs estimate average cost of cyberattack more than £730,000

Wed, 2nd Aug 2017
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UK SMBs estimated the average cost of a cyberattack where their customer records or critical business data were stolen at an eye-watering £737,677.
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Interxion announces plans for two new EU data centres - at up to £90m each

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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Interxion will soon be constructing new data centres in Frankfurt and Marseille – in addition to an expansion in Vienna.
Treasure trove

HBO's Game of Thrones treasure chest ransacked by hackers

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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​It would seem winter has come for HBO after hackers have stormed the company's servers and looted the jewels within to leak data online.
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IDC: Writing on the wall for Aussie enterprise Ethernet market?

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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With a 21 percent year-on-year decline, IDC reports the first quarter of 2017 was in fact the worst downturn in some time.
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Amazon launches new service in Singapore to transform retail

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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Amazon's first retail service in Singapore is set to transform the retail industry with products ordered from phones and delivered within two hours.
Business taking off

Renesas Electronics undergoes significant growth in Q2 this year

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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The company has plenty to be satisfied about, with its President and CEO reporting it as a successful expansion.
Security wrong man

New report details exploits of notorious cyberespionage group with EMEA targets

Mon, 31st Jul 2017
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Known as CopyKittens, the group is politically-motivated and has increasingly been active in pursuing foreign espionage on strategic targets.
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EU a hive of opportunity – two more data centres opened in Europe

Mon, 31st Jul 2017
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OVH and Rackspace have opened data centres in London and Frankfurt respectively, with the former saying Brexit hasn't harmed the tech industry.
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Nearly a quarter of 'unsafe' emails getting through to user inboxes

Fri, 28th Jul 2017
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There is a continuous challenge of securing organisations from malicious attachments, dangerous files type, impersonation attacks as well as spam.
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IBM expands global presence with two new data centres in London

Fri, 28th Jul 2017
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IBM has expanded its global presence with four new IBM Cloud data centres – two in London, one in San Jose and one in Sydney.
Businessman progress

IaaS set to surpass SaaS spending in 2017 and be a major driver of growth

Fri, 28th Jul 2017
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IDC has predicted the public cloud services market to exceed the US$10b mark this year with IaaS spending surpassing SaaS for the first time.