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Gap in cloud skills doubles in three years
over 4 years ago90% of organisations have reported a lack of skills in multiple cloud disciplines and that the deficit has doubled over the last three years. The lack of public cloud platform expertise is also driving organisations towards managed service providers. While cloud computing has accelerated digital transformation, forcing companies to invest more in IT teams and systems...
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CyrusOne begins construction of largest colocation data centre in Ireland
over 4 years agoCyrusOne has officially broken ground on its first data centre campus in Dublin, Ireland named Dublin I. The new facility will be located in Grange Castle Business Park South with the first phase of the build due for completion in Q4 2020. Once live, the new site will have a total power of 74MW and has already started accepting customer requests for space. “Ireland is ...
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CBRE Puts 16.5-Acre Data Centre Development Site In Slough Up For Sale
over 4 years agoCRBE Data Centre Solutions has formally launched the sale of Axis, a data centre development opportunity in Slough, UK on behalf of London based investment firm Columbia Threadneedle. The company revealed that the 16.5-acre freehold data centre site makes room of the opportunity to develop a 132MW hyperscale data centre or a multi-facility colocation campus. The vendor...
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Lleida.net Signs Two Interconnection Agreements With China Mobile and China Telecom and Will Have Access to One Billion Chinese Customers
over 4 years agoApproximately one billion Chinese customers will have access to the interconnection network of Lleida.net after the Spanish technology company signed two agreements with Chinese telecom operators China Mobile and China Telecom. Through these agreements, signed on August 30 and August 21, Lleida.net customers will be able to directly access China Mobile and China Telecom...
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NTT to rebrand subsidiaries including RagingWire, e-shelter and NetMagic
over 4 years agoNTT is rebranding regional data center and services subsidiaries including RagingWire in the US, e-Shelter in Europe and NetMagic in Southeast Asia, into a single NTT-branded entity. The companies, which have operated under their own brand since their acquisition in recent years, will become a single entity headquartered in London, according to sources. The rebran...
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Google invests $3 billion in European data centre expansion
over 4 years agoGoogle's CEO Sundar Pichai has announced this week that the company will be investing a further three billion euros (£2,642,906,834) into European data centres over the next two years. This additional investment brings Google's total investment in European digital infrastructure to 15 billion euros (£13,212,675,000) since 2007 - an endeavour which has supported 13,000 job...
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Global Carrier Awards 2019 - Shortlist Announced!
over 4 years agoBest Data Centre China Unicom Global CyrusOne Equinix Green Mountain Iron Mountain Data Centers Ooredoo Kuwait Sparkle TELIN Turkcell Best Data Centre Innovation datamena Equinix GLOBENET Iron Mountain Data Centers NJFX Sparkle Ufine ...
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Nordics Data Centre Firm ‘Moves Closer To Customers’ With London Base And New Hires
over 4 years agoNordics fibre services and data centre operator Bulk Infrastructure has opened a London office and hired senior executives for its growing operations. With new oncoming international fibre routes and data centre campuses in Denmark and Norway, Bulk is attracting customers from outside the Nordics region, it says. “Setting up a UK-based office in London is a natural thing ...
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Gartner video conferencing Magic Quadrant highlights remote work
over 4 years agoVideo meetings are increasingly important as the workforce grows more distributed and joins meetings from personal devices, according to the 'Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions.' The trend of more dispersed workforces is driving new ways of collaborating and communicating across locations. Increasingly, employees prefer to use video meeting platforms rather than havin...
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NEC partners with Infovista on SD-WAN for unified communications services
over 4 years agoNEC Corporation of America has forged a partnership with Infovista that includes combining Infovista's SD-WAN with NEC's unified communications services. The partnership, which includes an OEM agreement, pairs NEC's software-defined network-based unified communications (UC-SDN) solution, which is part of its Smart Enterprise Suite, with Infovista's Ipanema SD-WAN platform...
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China blocks US video-conferencing tool Zoom
over 4 years agoVideo-conferencing service Zoom was blocked in China starting Monday morning, joining a list of inaccessible internet services in the country. Why it matters: Against a backdrop of increasingly restrictive internet in China, the ban of US-based Zoom comes as the countries continue a protracted battle over technology and trade. Domestic apps with video conferencing a...
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How enterprises can get the best out of voice and video
over 4 years agoMany enterprise chief information officers (CIOs) are currently on a digital transformation journey at their organisation. This involves migrating more business applications and infrastructure to the cloud, including business-critical applications and services, such as real-time voice calling, video conferencing and collaboration tools. Increasingly, enterprises are adopting...
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How Long Before the Cloud Blocks Out the Sun?
over 4 years agoChange seems to be the only constant in the unified communication and collaboration environment these days. There’s always something new and exciting on the horizon, for collaboration tools, to video, artificial intelligence, and analytics. Even the way that companies go to market with their communication strategies is evolving at an incredible pace. Not so long ago, Chan...
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8×8 Delivers Complimentary One-Click Video Meetings
over 4 years ago8×8, a leading SaaS provider of video, voice, chat and contact centre solutions, recently announced the arrival of its new 8×8 Video Meetings. This forward-thinking meetings solution is now available to all new customers, and is a complimentary add-on for existing 8×8 customers, as part of their subscriptions for Virtual Office.The Video Meetings solution from 8×8 enables ex...
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LastPass bug could have let hackers steal your passwords
over 4 years agoThe popular password manager LastPass has released a patch for a bug that would have allowed malicious websites to extract passwords that were previously entered using the service's browser extension. The bug was first discovered by Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy who disclosed the vulnerability to the company early enough that it could release a patch before...
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NHS staff issued with fresh cyber security guidance
over 4 years agoNHS Digital has launched an organisation-wide cybersecurity campaign to provide staff with the most up-to-date guidance on how to avoid and mitigate potential cyber threats and data breaches. With the NHS being one of the biggest direct and indirect targets for cybercriminals, NHS Digital's 'Keep I.T. Confidential' campaign is hoping to educate the workforce on the impact...
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Thales expands access management capabilities for authentication users
over 4 years agoThales has expanded its SafeNet Authentication Service (SAS) to include adaptive authentication, single sign on, and application visibility capabilities. With adaptive authentication and flexible access management controls, its customers can secure all access points and gain insight into cloud and app access events. This enables organisations to ensure trusted access, saf...
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Pentest secures contract with global tech corp, Xcina Consulting becomes preferred supplier
over 4 years agoShearwater Group, the organizational resilience group, announces that its group company, Pentest has secured a one-year contract with a global technology corporation worth in excess of US$1 million. At the same time, Xcina Consulting, another Shearwater group company has also signed a ‘Master Consulting Agreement’ and become a preferred supplier to the same organization. ...
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Enterprise incident response plans suffer from neglect – Verizon study
over 4 years agoIncident response plans may be a useful part of cyber-preparedness, but they’re of little use if security teams don’t review, test or update those plans on a regular basis. That may seem like an obvious statement, but a new survey from Verizon indicates that while 79% of surveyed organisations have an incident response (IR) plan in place, only 40% bother to ensure those...
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More than 15,000 webcams globally remain hackable
over 4 years agoMore than 15,000 private webcams around the world -- many of which are located inside houses -- could be tapped, discovered Wizcase. All it takes to do so is a simple internet connection. White hat hacktivist Avishai Efrat has located more than 15,000 potentially accessible webcams, which could expose a plethora of identifying and compromising information to cyber-criminals...
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