Simon Bearne, Commercial Director at UK data centre operator NGD, delves beyond the headlines of a new European data centre pricing report. Datacentrepricing.com’s most recent pricing trends surveys, undertaken at the end of 2018, continued to find the UK to be the highest priced overall in Europe. I say ‘continued’ as their previous mid-year report […]
SBV Services stops millions of attacks while protecting cash in transit, employees, and data with Trend Micro. Overview SBV Services is a leading provider of customised cash services and solutions to reserve and commercial banks, ATMs, and retail environments. Founded in South Africa in 1986, SBV recently expanded its footprint into other African countries and is […]
User’s demand for cloud-hosted services has shown no signs of waning and as the International Data Corp (IDC) predicts data creation will hit 163 zettabytes by 2025, the need for modernised data centres is only set to rise. Bharat Mistry, Principal Security Strategist, Trend Micro, discusses how and why enterprises should be ensuring their data […]
Iskandar Najmuddin, Specialist Architect at Rackspace, discusses how container adoption could plug the enterprise cloud skills gap. Businesses increasingly rely on complex technologies to power their day-to-day business operations. These complex solutions can require highly skilled and supportive expertise, forcing many organisations to spend large amounts of time and effort on the maintenance of basic […]
Huawei is preparing for a March launch for its cloud data services in Africa. The company is working with South African partners for the construction of the data centres in Johannesburg initially and later Cape Town. Huawei will deploy localised public cloud services based on local industry policies, customer requirements and partner conditions. Globally, Huawei […]
Ruckus Networks, an ARRIS company, has announced the availability of its new ICX 7850 switch: an edge-to-core solution for the next decade of enterprise networking. Ruckus’ stackable ICX 7850 delivers high-density aggregation for 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE and 100GbE using existing customer investment in fibre cabling, making it suitable for large, secure enterprise edge networks in education, […]
EkkoSense’s Dr Stu Redshaw, explains why it’s time for data centre operations to ditch their spreadsheets and start paying attention to much more granular, real-time thermal and power measurements. Ask any operations team if their data centre rooms are fully performance-optimised and the answer will invariably be yes. However, despite the best efforts of FM […]
DigiPlex, a Nordic leader for innovative, sustainable and secure data centres, has opened a new server hall in its Stockholm data centre to meet increasing customer demand. The new hall is tailored for customers with one or more server racks, who want their IT environment housed in one of Sweden’s most secure and environmentally efficient […]
New research launched by Blancco Technology Group, a leader in data erasure and mobile device diagnostics, has outlined the staggering cost to global organisations of old, outdated IT equipment cluttering up data centres. A survey of 600 data centre experts from APAC, Europe and North America reveals that two in five organisations that store their data […]
Huawei Marine has completed the West Africa Cable System (WACS) Upgrade II. The project was signed a year ago before being put into commercial use last October. The upgrade realised 32*100G wavelengths configured on the longest optically amplified single fibre span stretching 11,500km from South Africa to Portugal. As the longest 100G submarine cable system […]
