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Republic of Sierra Leone to become Africa's first ever 'smart country'

Thu, 28th Sep 2017
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​Sierra Leone has entered a nationwide digitisation program that its president is asserting will forever change its global digital standing.
Data breach

New data logging service allows actionable cybersecurity insights

Thu, 28th Sep 2017
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network infrastructure
Palo Alto's new service is for machine learning & advanced analytics in order to correlate potential threats & prevent successful cyber breaches.
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Cloud services growing faster than any IT market today – and tomorrow

Thu, 28th Sep 2017
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The global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) public cloud market surged 31 percent in 2016 to reach US$22.1 billion, up from $16.8 billion in 2015.
Data headache

Hackers steal data through 'easy back door' in massive Deloitte breach

Wed, 27th Sep 2017
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breach prevention
​In just the last few weeks we've had three major breaches go public, and experts say this one could have been easily prevented.
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Gartner: The battle for the cloud has not even started yet

Wed, 27th Sep 2017
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Andrew White has an interesting framework to look at the battle for the cloud today and where he thinks it will go in the not too distant future.
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Misco opts with Oracle NetSuite because of local EU data centres

Wed, 27th Sep 2017
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fintech
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financial systems
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supply chain
According to Misco, the decision was made easy given NetSuite's range of data centres across Europe and in particular the Netherlands.
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VASCO and Nuvias expand agreement from two EMEA countries to 21

Wed, 27th Sep 2017
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resellers
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distributors
​The rapid rise of cybercrime has been one of the main drivers in the expansion of this existing distributor agreement.
Merging businesses

Two becomes one with Workspace Technology acquisition

Mon, 25th Sep 2017
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colocation
Workspace Technology recently announced the acquisition of Server Room Maintenance LLP and the merging of its offices.
Ransomware data

More than a quarter of UK councils infected with ransomware

Mon, 25th Sep 2017
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ransomware
Over a quarter of British councils hit by ransomware, yet no ransoms paid due to effective backups, reports Barracuda Networks.
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Businesses paid $301 million to ransomware hackers last year

Fri, 22nd Sep 2017
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ransomware
Datto has revealed the results of its latest study of ransomware around the world that are concerning to say the very least.
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Vexata emerges after 3 years in 'stealth mode' to launch revolutionary product

Fri, 22nd Sep 2017
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The company was founded by a flash-storage executive who left Dell EMC in 2013 because he sought to solve an underlying active-data problem.
Data center main highway

Data centre infrastructure will 'need new approaches' to cope with new tech

Thu, 21st Sep 2017
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COBO President Brad Booth asserts new technologies like AI, 5G, and the IoT will require significant changes to data centre infrastructure.
Old hardware trash

England's second largest police force still reliant on vulnerable Windows XP

Thu, 21st Sep 2017
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The Greater Manchester police have revealed more than one in five of its computers are still running an OS that has been unsupported since 2014.
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First half of 2017 sees 164% increase in stolen or compromised records

Wed, 20th Sep 2017
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healthtech
There were 918 data breaches that led to a staggering 1.9 billion records being compromised around the world in the first half of 2017 alone.
Myths or facts

5 data centre infrastructure management myths debunked

Wed, 20th Sep 2017
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public cloud
Nlyte's Mark Gaydos exposes five common myths surrounding data centre infrastructure and warns to not succumb to them.
Cloud running race

South Africa overtakes other nations in leapfrog up cloud curve

Wed, 20th Sep 2017
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digital transformation
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iaas
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cloud services
The country may have been late to the party when it came to cloud strategies, but the Routed MD says this has resulted in some positives.
Data breached by hacker

Equifax and its 143m customers just the 'first known victims'

Tue, 19th Sep 2017
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flexera
Equifax breach reveals well-known vulnerability, patch available long before attack, says Flexera. More hacks likely to come.
Data centre cloud

Hot forecast for the data centre cooling market with 14.95% CAGR

Tue, 19th Sep 2017
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datacentre infrastructure
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hyperscale
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clean technologies
OBRC asserts the rise of the data centre cooling market is being driven by cloud adoption in particular, growing at 6x the rate of IT spending.
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BT invests to expand cybersecurity presence down under

Mon, 18th Sep 2017
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​BT and the New South Wales Government have announced the opening of a new global cybersecurity research and development hub in Sydney.
Thumbs up yeah

Regulation a 'major step forward for EU's cloud industry'

Mon, 18th Sep 2017
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hybrid cloud
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datacentre infrastructure
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public cloud
Cloud infrastructure providers have given the thumbs up to the proposed regulation from the European Commission on the 'Free Flow of Data' in the EU.