Businesses are progressively embracing a multi-cloud strategy to drive increased innovation, speed to market and to optimise cost. However, Trent Odgers, Cloud and Hosting Manager for Southern Africa at Veeam, says the new challenge for organisations is creating an integrated data management strategy. The cloud is being used as a second home for data, as […]
Hosting firm UKFast has released its first Threat Monitoring Report, with data and insight from its Threat Monitoring service, which continuously analyses data to distinguish between potential security breaches and normal activity. Data from the first 10 weeks of 2019 shows more than 5.5m malicious events across the platform, with 1.52m full attack attempts blocked […]
VIVA Bahrain and Etisalat have signed a partnership to utilise Etisalat’s state-of-the-art communication hub SmartHub in establishing global connectivity that will further expand VIVA’s reach globally. Mohammed Al Khushail, Acting CEO of VIVA Bahrain and Ali Amiri, Etisalat Group Chief Carrier and Wholesale Officer, signed the agreement at the Capacity Middle East 2019, the largest […]
Rik Williams, Data Centre Operations Manager at Node4, talks to Intelligent Data Centres about key considerations for organisations when looking for a data hosting provider. It’s no secret that data is an organisation’s most important asset and the way that it is stored, managed and processed can play a critical role in the success of […]
CyrusOne, a premier global data centre REIT, has announced that its London I and London II data centre facilities are now running on a 100% renewable energy tariff, a move which the company says will transfer energy annual usage equivalent to 52,000 households to zero-emissions sources. Comprising a combined 23MW of IT power, both CyrusOne’s […]
Orange Belgium has opened a new highly secure and eco-efficient data centre in Hoboken, Antwerp. The 1,000 m² data centre will help Orange to manage the growing demand for mobile usage of its customers by handling the billions of day-to-day connections Orange customers make to surf, call and SMS. Orange Belgium invested more than €14 […]
Ducab, one of the Middle East’s leading high quality cable manufacturers, will strengthen its global transportation and delivery network with Oracle Cloud Applications, accelerating Ducab’s expansion into new markets within and outside the UAE. The company will leverage Oracle Cloud Applications to bolster its customer deliveries, introduce innovative services and enhance collaboration with its suppliers. […]
Data centre spend in the Middle East and North Africa will reach a record-high of nearly US$5 billion in 2019, industry experts have announced. This comes as organisations drive data centre modernisation as the foundation of their Digital Transformation. In 2019, the Middle East and North Africa’s data centre systems spend will grow by 2% […]
Kingston Digital Europe Co LLP, the flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc, a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, has announced its new Data Center 500 Series Enterprise SSDs. DC500R is optimised for read-intensive applications while DC500M is optimised for mixed-use workloads. Both SSDs in the DC500 series implement Kingston’s strict […]
Timothy Arnold, Head of Colocation at Six Degrees, discusses the best practice approach data centre teams should take to managing outdated equipment. Running outdated equipment in your data centre is a drain on finances and resources and can introduce security risks to your organisation. I’ve personally seen 12-year-old equipment that’s never been patched and never […]
