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Edge Data Center Market To Surpass $13bn In Six Years
over 5 years agoEdge Data Center Market size was valued at over USD 4 billion in 2017 and will grow at a CAGR of around 20% from 2018 to 2024.Edge data center market is expected to grow substantially over the coming years owing to a rapid growth in the demand for Over-The-Top (OTT) video and high-quality content, encouraging companies to implement network facilities at the edge locations. T...
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Data centers are set to grow and become more complex, survey finds
over 5 years agoCompanies will invest more in data centers in the coming years, but it won’t necessarily be around compute. That's according to a new survey by AFCOM, the data center and IT management education company. This is AFCOM’s first study on the subject in two years, and it found that ownership, renovations, and building of new data centers were on the increase. It found 58 perc...
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Lessons From This Year's Data Center Outages: Focus On the Fundamentals
over 5 years agoMost downtime incidents in the past year resulted from known causes and were preventable via robust design and processes. Even as new threats to uptime continued to emerge in 2018, known causes led to most data center outages we saw this year. According to survey results released by the Uptime Institute this summer, nearly one-third of all data centers had an outag...
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Colt Data Centre Services enters major new market in Mumbai
over 5 years agoColt Data Centre Services (DCS), a Fidelity owned company has announced this week their entry into a major new market in India. The organisation has successfully acquired land in Mumbai and plans to build a 100MW IT hyper-scale data centre facility. The strategic decision to expand into India has been driven by the substantial customer demand it has received for best in clas...
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Singtel extends English Premier League rights in Singapore until 2022
over 5 years agoSingtel has announced it will continue broadcasting the English Premier League in Singapore for the next three seasons. The deal, which runs from August 2019 to May 2022, will see Singtel’s reign as the official broadcaster of the EPL in Singapore extended to 12 consecutive years. Aside from the EPL, Singtel also has rights to the UEFA Champions League, FA Cup and eight m...
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HPE boosts InfoSight with AI capabilities
over 5 years agoHPE has updated its predictive analytics storage engine, Infosight, adding AI capabilities which it says will simplify infrastructure and data management, and reduce operating costs by up to 79 percent. The updates to the company's DCIM include cross-stack recommendations on the company's Nimble Storage appliances, AI-driven resource planning and self-diagnosis of perfo...
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Exponential-e CEO on Cloud, Security & Coffee (VIDEO)
over 5 years agoLee Wade, CEO at UK cloud and data network operator Exponential-e, talks cloud and network evolution, automation, security and why he has two baristas at the company's London HQ. Video Link source lightreading Industry: Telecommunication & Cyber Security News
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Cisco forecasts IP handset sales surge
over 5 years agoCisco has forecast ongoing increases in sales of IP handsets. Fernando Mousinho, director of product management in Cisco’s Unified Communications Technology Group, took to the company’s blog to reveal that the company “could not have imagined that orders would increase by more than 30 percent this past quarter.” “I will keep building great IP phones,” he added, “Becaus...
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Tango Networks Acquires Simetric Telecom, Creating Global Enterprise Mobile Communications Solution Provider
over 5 years agoTango Networks announced it has acquired Simetric Telecom, a leading UK-based provider of innovative mobile services and telecommunications solutions. The acquisition creates a groundbreaking portfolio of global mobile communications solutions uniquely focused on the mobility needs of today’s distributed enterprises. Founded in 2009, Simetric operates an intelligent ne...
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Mitel Partners with Liverpool FC
over 5 years agoCanadian telecomms firm Mitel has increased its presence in the English Premier League by signing a multi-year partnership with Liverpool Football Club. Mitel is the choice of the MLB’s Boston Red Sox, who like Liverpool FC, are owned by John Henry’s Fenway Sports Group. The new Liverpool partnership will see Mitel become the Global Unified Communications Partner, ta...
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KCOM laments 'poor' enterprise performance ahead of strategic review
over 5 years agoKCOM saw its revenue drop five per cent in its H1, largely attributed to weak performances in its business-focused units. The firm saw sales for the six months ending 30 September 2018 drop five per cent year on year to £143.4m. EBITDA increased two per cent to £30.5m, but KCOM said this was because the same period last year was affected by £6.2m of losses related to c...
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Logitech and Plantronics end acquisition discussions
over 5 years agoLogitech has confirmed that it was in talks to acquire headset vendor Plantronics, but said these discussions have been terminated. On Friday Reuters reported that Logitech had offered more than $2.2bn (£1.7bn) for Plantronics, citing "people familiar with the matter". In a brief statement, Switzerland-based Logitech said that talks had taken place, but had not gone an...
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Zoom Preparing for IPO
over 5 years agoAccording to unnamed sources, investment banking and capital markets giant, Morgan Stanley are reportedly ready to take Zoom public. Zoom looks set to be valued at several billion dollars, highlighting both the huge growth and potential in the video conferencing market. At Zoom’s most recent round of funding in 2017, a $1 billion valuation was quoted. This has since appar...
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ICO fines Uber £385,000 over data protection failings
over 5 years agoThe Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined ride sharing company Uber £385,000 for failing to protect customers’ personal information during a cyber attack. A series of avoidable data security flaws allowed the personal details of around 2.7million UK customers to be accessed and downloaded by attackers from a cloud-based storage system operated by Uber’s US par...
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Cyber Security, GDPR and SMEs – are the wrong questions being asked?
over 5 years agoEven before GDPR came into effect in May 2018, there was concern over the inconvenience and financial burden that becoming compliant places on organisations. It’s all very well for commentators and reports to recommend organisations allocate between 9% and 13% of IT budget to cyber security. But if there is no budget in the first place that advice becomes meaningless. ...
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MyDoom wins Cyber Security Challenge Masterclass
over 5 years agoTeam MyDoom has been declared the winners of the 2018 Cyber Security Challenge Masterclass. They overcame eight other teams in what was a great showcase of future talent for the industry. The Masterclass is the culmination of a year of competitions across the UK. It also included, for the first time, winners from competitions in Singapore. Unlike many competitions, drawin...
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Did British Airways accidentally break its own security?
over 5 years agoA PhD student from the Information Security Research Group of the Department of Computer Science at University College London, he knows more about internet security than your Average Joe. Mustafa's been raising the alarm about BA's security for months. In July, he was attempting to check in online for his flight when he kept hitting a roadblock that wouldn't allow him to ...
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Barclays fights off cyber attack attempts every day
over 5 years agoBarclays fights off attacks from cyber criminals every single day, according to the head of the bank’s cyber security operations centre. Former Europol cybercrime centre head of operations Paul Gillen told City A.M. that the number of attempts against the lender each day was “substantial”. However, the attacks vary in degree with the most common being mal...
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Growth in number of UK cybersecurity start-ups slows
over 5 years agoThe number of cybersecurity start-ups in the UK remains high, however the number of newcomers to the scene has fallen in the past year, according to a new study. The vast majority reside in London, while they remain at an average headcount of 10 or fewer members, amid a tightening human capital market. Cybersecurity remains a fast-evolving ecosystem that presents new thre...
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GDPR’s impact: The first six months
over 5 years agoGDPR is now six months old – it’s time to take an assessment of the regulation’s impact so far. At first blush it would appear very little has changed. There are no well-publicized actions being taken against offenders. No large fines levied. So does this mean its yet another regulation that will be ignored? Actually nothing could be farther from the truth. The day GDPR c...
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