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With every cyber-attack that makes the news, we are reminded just how vulnerable datacoms are. The latest round of attacks has targeted a number of big names, including British Airways and software developer site GitHub. Although the recent attacks hit as many as five organisations, officials do not believe that...
The holy grail of renewable energy research is proving that significant energy needs can be met exclusively through renewable sources for extended amounts of time. The Central American nation of Costa Rica has indeed gone a long way in that endeavour, having used no fossil fuels for electrical generation since...
A recent survey among UK and European IT managers has revealed several interesting things that give us a good idea of where data centres are heading this year and next. At the top of the list of planned expenditures for 2015 are data centre consolidations and infrastructure upgrades. The cloud...
The era of Big Data officially began about ten years ago, when the corporate internet got it in their heads that data could be harvested and later mined for the purposes of business growth and expansion. They realised that, although they did not know how to use all of the...
Statistics from a recent NEF: The Innovation Institute study suggest that only 16% of UK companies requiring workers with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) training are able to meet their hiring goals. An additional 32% said that hiring qualified workers is challenging. With the numbers such as they are,...
With the publication of new privacy policies earlier this year, Facebook hoped to make its position more clear in the face of growing opposition to how it collects and uses member data however things are not working out as expected. Facebook updates are not sitting well with the Belgian Privacy...
In the cut-throat world of social media, one could hardly expect competitors to work together for mutual benefit, however that is exactly what is happening among some of the biggest players, including Facebook, Tumblr, and Pinterest. The three companies are among a group of companies that have decided to work...
The world was outraged, and rightly so, when news broke of the US National Security Agency's (NSA) extensive spying on enemies and allies alike however, why is anyone surprised? We live in a world that is now being dominated by what is affectionately known as the 'Internet of Things', a...
A great deal of time and energy is being put into developing renewable energy sources capable of driving the data centre industry of the future. This is not without good reason. Indeed, the power and cooling needs of the modern facility are such that the industry consumes the largest amount...
If IT outsourcing is an indicator of technology sector health, things appear to be very good in Europe. According to Information Services Group (ISG), the numbers for both IT outsourcing and business process outsourcing were up in 2014 in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Pushing the outsourcing industry is...
Data centre security is a big issue: especially for co-location centres hosting multiple racks for multiple, often competing, clients. Given the number of people passing through a data centre on a near daily basis, poor rack level security creates unnecessary risk. Rack security While the government, banks and police...
The latest research from Gartner indicates that spending in the data centre sector should rise by as much as 1.8% over the next 12 months. Although the increase is not as much as previously projected, it is still good news to those in the IT industry. Increased data centre spending...