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New research has suggested data loss is the biggest concern for IT decision-makers when it comes to security. The survey of 300 mid-market IT managers, CIOs, directors and Heads of IT, revealed data loss was the most difficult challenge for 42% of correspondents, when trying to keep their organisation secure. A quarter of those asked...

Data safety is paramount, and encryption may be a significant step in order to keep you safe. So what is it and what should you encrypt? Your business doesn’t deal with highly confidential data, so you don’t need to encrypt your data, right? Wrong. Although ‘data encryption’may sound like something that only happens in institutes...

The Government’s ‘Cloud First’ policy was introduced in 2013 and asks public sector organisations, when procuring new or existing services, to “consider and fully evaluate potential cloud solutions first before considering any other option.” The approach is mandatory for central government and strongly recommended to the wider public sector. The government response came after an...

Edge computing will signal a move from what is traditionally understood to be the cloud – but what exactly is it, what’s it good for, and who are the main players? Edge computing has provided an impressive alternative over these past few years within the technology landscape, and seems to be proving that it has...

Public cloud adoption is set to continue to grow but companies have concerns over how to handle cloud migration challenges, according to the latest study by VIAVI Solutions.   The IT and network testing provider, in its most recent State of the Network Global Study, polled more than 600 IT professionals and found more than...

The advent of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) should bring with it some feelings of reassurance and heightened security. However, some cybercriminals are using it to their advantage in order to exploit unknowing users. According to the Independent, fraudsters have been posing as banks over email and using GDPR as an excuse to extract...

Hosting data in-house can be a costly experience. It’s a bit like owning your own car; you have all the responsibility of upkeep and repairs, and just when you think everything is plain sailing, a whopping unexpected bill lands on your doormat. With this in mind, many are now thinking of ‘leasing their car’ instead,...

You must feel exhausted from the abundance of emails over the past few days containing the subject line ‘We’re updating our privacy policy’. But the truth is, these companies have no choice but to show 100% compliance to the new legislation as if they’re not, from today, they could face fines of up to €20...

New research from multi-cloud data management firm Vertias Technologies has suggested a lack of trust in businesses’ ability to protect data, and that consumers will penalise those who fail. The statistics are taken from Veritas’ Global Data Privacy Consumer Study, which reveals insights from 12,500 consumers across 14 countries, including 1,000 consumers from the UK....

In the last decade, converged systems have revolutionised the world of data centre management. They have transformed the now-defined ‘traditional approach’, which sees a huge amount of business time poured into choosing storage, servers and networking software, to then spend even more time testing and deploying it. Plus, when support is needed, multiple vendors need...

With an exponential increase in data production in the last decade many companies are finding that their private clouds can no longer handle peak-time demand; this is leading to a shift in hybrid cloud usage. But when moving to a hybrid system, will your colocation provider meet your specific needs? Make sure you consider these...