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PHOTO GALLERY: Datacloud UK 2018 & Finance and Investment Forum

Mon, 19th Feb 2018
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The events brought together enterprise customers and investors with the leading data centre & cloud players and experts in the industry.
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​Huge increase in email-borne attacks requires new thinking

Mon, 19th Feb 2018
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malware
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ransomware
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email security
More than 205 billion emails are sent and received every day with that number increasing every year - something hackers are keenly aware of.
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Google Cloud to snap up LogMeIn's Xively for US$50m

Sat, 17th Feb 2018
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public cloud
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Google indicated in a recent blog post that it means to use Xively as its launch pad into the ballooning IoT market.
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New malicious search engine trawls AWS servers for sensitive data

Sat, 17th Feb 2018
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public cloud
​As if it wasn't easy enough already, the lives for hackers has just been made a lot easier with a tool that lays bare AWS S3 servers.
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Data centre heavyweights team up to prove power of software-defined power

Sat, 17th Feb 2018
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power / energy
Virtual Power Systems, SAP, and Schneider Electric are working together to validate the use of software-defined power in data centres.
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Gartner provides 7 steps for dealing with Spectre and Meltdown

Fri, 16th Feb 2018
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risk & compliance
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​No doubt you've heard of Spectre and Meltdown before, given security researchers are calling them 'catastrophic' - here's Gartner's advice.
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New advisory platform finds 41m PDFs part of a cyberattack in last 3 months

Fri, 16th Feb 2018
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firewalls
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ransomware
Barracuda announced the availability of its new platform that provides advanced threat trends in real time - along with some shocking findings.
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REVEALED: The top data centre hotspots for business in UK

Thu, 15th Feb 2018
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Bidwells has released a report that delves into the UK data centre market, the hot locations and whether data centres should go rural or city.
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67% of organisations say they're understaffed to handle cybersecurity

Thu, 15th Feb 2018
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cybersecurity
RiskIQ's survey paints a grim picture that forecasts a 'perfect storm' where the problem of staff shortages collides with escalating cybercrime.
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Interview: Vertiv VP says data centre energy usage to triple in next decade

Thu, 15th Feb 2018
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Emiliano Cevenini says data centres need to invest in solutions to help them optimise their energy usage or risk falling by the wayside.
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Winter Olympics hacked: Was it just disruptive or something more sinister?

Tue, 13th Feb 2018
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The Winter Olympics recently fell victim to a cyberattack which seemed to be just a disruption, but this expert says there could be more behind it.
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Frankfurt to overtake London with largest data centre cluster in EU

Tue, 13th Feb 2018
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colocation
Frankfurt is preparing for substantial extra growth over the next year, with more than 11 data centre expansions announced by major providers.
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Cryptocurrency exchange says it lost $195m to hackers – but is it a scam?

Tue, 13th Feb 2018
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crypto
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blockchain
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cybersecurity
BitGrail wasn't known to many until last week when it announced it had been hacked, but many experts believe all is not as it seems.
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CASE STUDY: Kelvin Hughes deploys Schneider Electric data centre solutions

Tue, 13th Feb 2018
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datacentre infrastructure
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Kelvin Hughes IT manager says if the data centre fails then the company essentially stops trading, making a solution for easy monitoring imperative.
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Apple says DON'T fear about leaked source code – experts say DO

Sat, 10th Feb 2018
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After a critical source code for the iPhone was leaked online recently, Apple reassured there was nothing to fear but experts think otherwise.
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Survey finds businesses stung with $16m hidden cybersecurity costs every year

Fri, 9th Feb 2018
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New research from Bromium has found the hidden costs of 'detect-to-protect' security are immense with businesses being blindsided every year.
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Huawei announces £3bn commitment to UK after meeting with prime minister

Fri, 9th Feb 2018
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hyperscale
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government
After procuring more than £2bn into the UK between 2013-2017, Huawei has committed to £3bn more over the next five years.
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Mega breach: 800,000 Swisscom customers' data stolen via hacked partner

Fri, 9th Feb 2018
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hackers
Experts say while Swisscom may be playing the huge breach down, the implications of the breach will be far and wide.
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The largest data centre campus in Europe is about to get even larger

Fri, 9th Feb 2018
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Following a number of huge customer contracts, NGD is adding 250,000 square feet of capacity at its mega data centre campus in South Wales.
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Edge, IoT and energy efficiency all feature in Vertiv MD's forecast for AU

Thu, 8th Feb 2018
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edge computing
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iot
The year seems to be flying by with one month down already, but Vertiv ANZ managing director Robert Linsdell says there is still much to come.