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Colt Data Centre Services appoints Niclas Sanfridsson as new CEO
over 4 years agoLondon, UK, 28 November 2019 – Colt Data Centre Services (DCS)today announced that it has named Niclas Sanfridsson as its new Chief Executive Officer. The move comes as Colt DCS’s current CEO, Detlef Spang, plans to retire at the end of this year after leading the business since its inception as an operationally independent business from the Colt network business in 2015. Du...
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DE-CIX arrives at Global Switch: Madrid continues to increase its capacity for international interconnection
over 4 years agoMadrid – 27 November 2019. DE-CIX, the world’s leading Internet Exchange operator, has this week announced that the Madrid data center of Global Switch, a leading large-scale carrier and cloud neutral data center provider, will be a DE-CIX enabled site going forward, offering DE-CIX’s premium interconnection services such as peering and cloud exchange in the Spanish capital....
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CityFibre appoints former Digicel CIO to oversee £2.5bn Gigabit City build out
over 4 years agoUK based fibre to the home pioneer, CityFibre, has appointed Richard Thorpe to the role of chief delivery officer, according to a company release. Thorpe brings a wealth of industry experience to the role and previously served as chief information officer at Digicel Group. “As the UK’s third national digital infrastructure platform, CityFibre’s build programme co...
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Bouygues to build second data center on Virtus' London campus
over 4 years agoFrench contractors Bouygues Energy and Services Contracting will build Virtus' London6 data center on the colocation company's campus in Stockley Park. The data center will be built with an overall floor area of 14,000 sq m (150,000 sq ft) and include 7,000 sq m (75,000 sq ft) of IT space. Built to Tier III standards, the facility will be adjacent to sister site Londo...
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NTT Com's Osaka 7 to Launch as one of the Largest Data Centers in Japan's Kansai Region
over 4 years agoNTT Communications Corporation the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group, has announced this week that it will launch the Osaka 7 Data Center (Osaka 7) on December 1 to expand the company's data center capacity in the Kansai region. Osaka 7 will launch with server space of 3,800m2, top-class in the region, and will eventually offer 9,50...
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HPE hybrid IT revenue falls 11% triggering share slump
over 4 years agoHPE missed analyst estimates in its fourth-quarter earnings report on Monday, largely driven by slowing demand for core products and wider economic uncertainty. Shares slumped 4% in after-hours trading, prompted by a drop of 11% in the company's Hybrid IT division, by far HPE's largest unit comprising its servers, storage and data centre products. Revenue for the unit cam...
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NetApp and Google Cloud deepen strategic partnership
over 4 years agoNetApp and Google Cloud have announced the general availability of NetApp Cloud Volumes Service, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud, and support for Anthos on NetApp HCI to help organisations focus on innovation across any hybrid environments. As enterprises seek to take advantage of the agility and efficiency benefits of the cloud, they need to know that their...
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GTT instructs Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs for infrastructure unit sale
over 4 years agoGTT Communications has instructed Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs as its financial advisors for the potential sale of its infrastructure division. The news follows the announcement made during the company’s 2019 third-quarter results. In the filing GTT, the company stated; “GTT has expanded the scope of its non-strategic and non-core asset divestiture exploratory process ...
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Colocation Take-Up In 2020 To Fall Below 2019 In Europe’s FLAP Market
over 4 years agoColocation take-up is predicted to decrease in 2020 due to Frankfurt and London having their best years in 2018 and 2019. Amsterdam’s data centre moratorium is another factor that is set to stunt the growth of take-up next year, which will have the potential to bring the numbers down lower than those of 2019, according to newly released figures from CBRE. Colocation ta...
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Vonage Expands Channel Programme Internationally, Names Industry Leader Adam Wilson UK Channel Lead
over 4 years agoVonage, a global business cloud communications leader, is launching its award-winning Channel Programme in the UK and has appointed industry leader Adam Wilson as UK Channel Lead, effective immediately. Mr. Wilson reports directly to Mario DeRiggi, SVP Channel Sales and Business Development. Vonage has been a leader through nearly 20 years of constant change and disruptio...
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Mitel first to leverage Amazon Chime SDK
over 4 years agoMitel is the first vendor to leverage Amazon Chime SDK to boost the capabilities of its UC and collaboration portfolio. The software development kit extends audio calling, video calling and screen sharing capabilities to applications. AWS currently hosts Mitel’s CloudLink architecture and microservices. Mary McDowell, President and CEO, Mitel, stated: “Effective ...
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Gamma acquires Unified Communications infrastructure provider Telsis
over 4 years agoGamma is pleased to announce the acquisition of Telsis, a developer of UCaaS solutions for small to medium-size enterprises. Bringing the right combination of specialist development skills and engineering expertise, the acquisition of Telsis will help Gamma deliver its strategic goal of being the leading player in UCaaS. Additionally, Telsis provides established route...
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Slack: Microsoft Teams not only copies our product but our ads too
over 4 years agoImitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but it's not so pleasant when the mimicry is performed by an 800lb gorilla who wants to eat your lunch. Microsoft this week announced that its answer to messaging platform Slack, Microsoft Teams, now has 20 million daily active users (DAU), making it almost twice the size of Slack. Teams has achieved that in just two year...
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Zoom Expands with Equinix to Future-Proof and Scale Its Video-First, Cloud-Native Architecture
over 4 years agoEquinix, Inc., the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Zoom Video Communications, Inc., a leading provider of video-first unified communications, will leverage Platform Equinix® to expand its globally distributed footprint in order to support the company's worldwide growth objectives. Currently serving over 66,000 customers that have mor...
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Avaya revenue slump expected to continue in 2020
over 4 years agoAvaya shares closed down 5% last Wednesday after the company failed to hit its financial targets for the fourth fiscal quarter and predicted that revenue would likely decline again in 2020. Avaya brought in $723 million in the three months ended Sept. 30, despite projecting revenues between $735 million and $755 million. The quarter capped a year of disappointing returns,...
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UK healthcare firms ramp up cyber security spending
over 4 years agoHealth sector companies in the UK have increased their spending on cyber security more than 500% in a year in the wake of high-profile attacks on companies including Merck & Co and Bayer. The data, drawn from UK government figures analysed by cyber security firm Specops Software, shows that health and social care companies were the second highest spenders across all ind...
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Crossword Cybersecurity's consulting division announces three new contracts
over 4 years agoCrossword Cybersecurity PLC said its consulting division is breaking into new sectors and landing contracts with bigger customers. The division has recently signed numerous agreements including three with companies in the automotive, insurance and property sectors. The first is a cyber transformation project with a global pioneer in connected vehicle data. Crossword...
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What will cyber security look like in 2020?
over 4 years agoIt’s true; the future of cybersecurity is AI. It’s advancing daily, and eventually, all antivirus and general security protection will be provided by AI-enabled analysis. But we’re some way off this yet, and despite advances, AI is only one element in building our security defences against future cyber threats. It is important to take a risk and business-centric approac...
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Information on 1.2 billion people uncovered in massive data leak
over 4 years agoFour billion records on 1.2 billion people were found on an unsecured Elasticsearch server. Researchers Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery and Vinny Troia of Data Viper found the four terabyte data trove amasses from four billion user accounts. "A total count of unique people across all datasets reached more than 1.2 billion people, making this one of the largest data l...
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T-Mobile suffers data breach, over a million customers affected
over 4 years agoT-Mobile has been breached with more than a million of its customers having their personal data exposed. The phone network confirmed that its users’ names, billing addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, rates, plans and calling features have all been disclosed. Payment information and credit card information were not breached, the company added. On its own, the da...
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