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CyrusOne Inc. Announces Closing of Zenium Acquisition
over 5 years agoCyrusOne Inc. (“CyrusOne”), a premier global data center REIT, today announced that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of Zenium Data Centers (“Zenium”), a leading hyperscale data center provider with properties in London and Frankfurt, Europe’s two largest data center markets. “We are excited to take this important step in establishing a European footprin...
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CenturyLink Channel Changes Resonate As Two Programs Become One
over 5 years agoNearly a year after its massive Level 3 acquisition, CenturyLink channel execs tell CRN about the newly-combined partner program, and how the carrier-turned global tech provider is earning 74 percent of its revenue from business customers with the help of the indirect channel. Nearly a year after combining with fellow telecom giant Level 3 Communications, the new Centur...
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Why Australia Banned Huawei from its 5G Telecoms Network
over 5 years agoCanberra’s hand was forced by overlapping cyber and national security concernsAs Canberra, Australia’s sleepy bush capital, was gripped by yet another political leadership crisis this month that later overthrew former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, an unexpected media release was dropped on the capital’s distracted media. Amid the chaos, the government had finally taken a ...
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Etix In Joint Venture To Deliver New Edge Data Centre In Frankfurt
over 5 years agoWe all know Frankfurt is extremely busy, so it should therefore be no surprise to hear that four potential customers are already in the frame to move in, and take advantage of the burgeoning data demand. Data centre operator Etix Everywhere is building a 15MVA facility in Offenbach, part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban hotspot area. The first campus building represents ...
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Microsoft Azure Now Supports Nvidia GPU Cloud for Deep Learning
over 5 years agoMicrosoft Azure cloud customers can now use Nvidia’s GPU Cloud for the training and inference of deep learning models. The Nvidia GPU Cloud provides software containers to accelerate high-performance computing (HPC) and deep learning for researchers and developers. Powered by Nvidia Volta and its Tensor Core GPU architecture, the GPU Cloud launched in spring 2017. The ...
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Danish Government in Ambitious Datacentre Push
over 5 years agoDenmark offers many natural benefits for organisations looking to build datacentres in Europe, and a soon-to-be-completed connection to the US will make it even more attractive Denmark’s ambition to become a leading Nordic and European location for hyperscale datacentres continues to gain momentum by attracting major industry actors and government support. Danish polit...
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GTT CEO Rick Calder Discusses Synergies, Integration of Interoute Deal
over 5 years agoGTT Communications is starting to tie up the loose ends of its $2.3 billion deal to acquire Interoute, which was first announced in February.In an interview with FierceTelecom, GTT CEO Rick Calder said that the first phase of the Integration with Interoute would be completed before the end of August."We announced internally to the organization that when we closed on May 31st...
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Onwards and Upwards: The Rise of Cloud Communications
over 5 years agoThe Cloud is king. No matter how much you love your hardware legacy systems, it’s impossible to ignore just how important the Cloud has become to the communications industry, as it continues to pave the way for new and improved business models, giving companies access to scalability across the globe. As more small businesses embrace the natural scalability of the Cloud, a...
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Yorktel Acquires Microsoft Solutions Practice, Enhancing Existing Practice Capabilities
over 5 years agoYorktel, CI’s 2015 Integrator of the Year, today announced it has acquired a Microsoft Solutions practice and the appointment of Jeremy Short as senior VP to lead the new division. The practice’s continued focus will be “delivering the Microsoft Modern Workplace to clients as a One Commercial Partner, along with innovative solutions development and managed services,” acco...
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Unified Communications API Nylas Closes $16.2 Million
over 5 years agoNylas, the unified communications API for integrating software with email, calendars, and contacts, secured $16 million in a Series B funding round led by Spark Capital with participation from Slack Ventures, Industry Ventures, and ScaleUp, joining existing investors 8VC, Great Oaks Capital, Rubicon Venture Capital and John Chambers’ personal fund. Andrew Parker, general par...
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Mitel Recalibrates Contact Center Strategy
over 5 years agoPivots toward providing options for standalone contact center upgrades and integrated UC-CC solutions. Today Mitel announced an addition to its contact center portfolio described as, "entirely over-the-top with no software or equipment to deploy." MiCloud Engage Contact Center signals a strategic departure in the company's approach to the contact center market. At the ...
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Amazon Chime app adds dial-out, single sign-on features
over 5 years agoThe Amazon Chime app has new dial-out and single sign-on features, but the cloud-based messaging and meetings platform still trails rivals, including Cisco Webex and Zoom. Amazon Web Services has been gradually building out the features of Amazon Chime, as the tech giant struggles to attract corporate interest in the online messaging and meetings platform. AWS added a ...
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Red Box Announces Voice Data Controller on Salesforce
over 5 years agoRed Box has announced it has launched Voice Data Controller on the Salesforce AppExchange, empowering businesses to connect with their customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways. Underpinned by Red Box’s secure and resilient voice capture solution, Voice Data Controller enables customer to: Align calls to Salesforce contacts, accounts and leads Search for...
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Atlas Quantum Cryptocurrency Investment Platform Suffers Data Breach
over 5 years agoAtlas Quantum confirmed the breach on Sunday night, in a Facebook note. The company said it's currently investigating the incident. The platform lets users add Bitcoin to their accounts to buy and sell on various cryptocurrency trading platforms, allowing users to make profits based on Bitcoin's price fluctuations and the differences in exchange rates. Atlas Quantum sa...
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Windows 0-day pops up out of (nowhere) Twitter
over 5 years agoWindows 0-day pops up out of nowhere Twitter Local privilege escalation in procedure calls It's not bad enough to take Microsoft out-of-cycle, but CERT/CC has just put out a warning of a new privilege escalation bug in Windows. According to the Tweet that set the hounds running, it's a zero-day with a proof-of-concept at GitHub. CERT/CC vulnerability analys...
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McAfee Researchers Exploit Smart Plug to Attack Smart TV!
over 5 years agoResearchers from McAfee have demonstrated how a flaw in a Belkin smart switch can be used to access other connected devices on the same network as the switch. One of the recurrent themes of Internet of Things security might be summarized as “its not the THING, stupid!” In other words: the value of the individual endpoint is irrelevant. A webcam, a baby monitor, a connect...
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Centrica Invests in Leading Industrial Cyber Security Provider, Indegy
over 5 years agoCentrica plc has announced an investment in Indegy as part of a £14m ($18m) funding round. A leader in industrial cyber security, Indegy specialises in technology that gives businesses visibility and control over their industrial control systems to protect against cyber threats, malicious insiders and human error. Totally non-intrusive, the Indegy solution can...
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Cyber Security Firm Calls for More Women to Apply for Jobs
over 5 years agoA POOLE cyber security company is calling for more women to enter the industry after taking on a third year university student. Lucy Dalley is from the first intake of students to go through Bournemouth University’s cyber security management degree course, and she has now joined C3IA Solutions for a year as a junior consultant for 'cyber essentials', putting into practice...
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German Cyber Experts Reportedly Fear Hackers Could Knock Out EU Power Grid
over 5 years agoEarlier, US intelligence reported that Russian hackers were allegedly interested in US electricity companies, probing them for cybersecurity weaknesses. The National Cyber Defense Center, working for the German government, has prepared a confidential report suggesting that several cyber attacks against German energy suppliers could cause a complete blackout througho...
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SMB Employees Fail to Take Cyber Threats Seriously
over 5 years agoUnfortunately for small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), many employees remain ignorant to the reality of cyber threats, making decisions that continue to put the company at risk, according to a new study from Switchfast Technologies. The study found that one in three business owners do not have safeguards in place to combat cyber breaches and 60% of small businesses th...
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