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London, 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...

French 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...

HPE 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...

UK 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...

Madrid – 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....

NTT 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...

NetApp 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...

Colocation 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...

GTT 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 ...

Equinix, 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...

Vonage, 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...

Mitel 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 ...

Imitation 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...

Gamma 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...

Avaya 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,...

It’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...

Health 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...

Crossword 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...

Google announced last week that it is willing to dish out bug bounty cash rewards of up to $1.5 million if security researchers find and report bugs in the Android operating system that can also compromise its new Titan M security chip. Launched last year, the Titan M chip is currently part of Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 4 devices. It's a separate chip that's included in bot...

Britain's opposition Labour Party was using a $20-a-month "basic security" service to protect its website when hackers attempted to force it offline last week and temporarily slowed down online campaigning, according to internal emails seen by Reuters. Such entry-level protection is not recommended for large organisations at high risk of cyber-attacks, but the messages sh...