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Data Centre Market Attracting Huge Investment
Experts in data centre finance claim that investment is flooding into the data centre market. “We’ve never seen a better time in this space for financing,” claimed Paul Vasilopoulos, at Bank Street Group. Typically investment has gone into companies with strong management systems and good track records. This is a hard space to gain investment for start-ups. “You don’t see a lot of new entrants into the market,” stated Brian …
Cambridge First Year Wins GCHQ Cyber Security Challenge
Jonathan Millican from North Yorkshire has been named the UK’s Cyber Security Champion after winning a GCHQ competition which has been running for the last 6 months. The competition included a series of challenges ranging from attacks on webservers, defacement and mail spam. It was then up to contestants to make their suggestions of how they would defend against such instances. Mr Millican’s team actually finished second but as an …
Approaching the Data Centre Market
“There is no good way to predict what the technical footprint will be,” states Rachel Dines, analyst at Forrester Research. She refers here to the decision all corporations face when deciding whether to host their own IT infrastructure, or to outsource it. Many companies are now swaying much more heavily towards renting data centre space. This has become especially apparent during the downturn of the economy, between 2009-10. Many sectors …
US Water Facility Hacked
It has been revealed that a water utility near Springfield, Illinois, was successfully attacked by hackers. The incident is now being investigated by US homeland security and FBI officials. As a result of the attack, a water pump motor burn’t out when it was continuously switched on and off. This is the first time that a foreign hacker has successfully targeted a US industrial facility and gained access to controls. …
Web Privacy Tool to Limit the Amount of Information Given Away
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is currently designing a web privacy tool that will help users control how their personal data is managed and reveal websites which do not honour privacy requests. The W3C have now reached the stage where they want users, businesses and browser makers to contribute towards the completion of the tool and to implement the specifications, increasing the likelihood of the tool being deemed as …
Hacker Gets Taste Of His Own Medicine
A hacking group who call themselves d33ds hijacked a rival hacker’s online shop. The rival hacker sells unauthorised access to high-profile websites and data. Since its creation, the website has been used to advertise stolen information from a number of organisations such as the U.S. Army and the U.S. Department of Defense. The owner of this online shop goes by the name of Srblche, and he also offers the service …
Britain Beefing Up Cyber Security Measures
“Cyberspace is going to be one of the great challenges of our day” according to Iain Lobban, director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Lobban maintains that cyber attacks pose a serious economic threat. This has certainly rung true in the the past 12 months with a significant rise in the number of apparently government linked cyber threats coming from other countries or organised criminals. In addition attempts to steal …
BlackBerry Outage Affects Millions of Users
A disastrous 36 hours for Blackberry has left millions of customers disgruntled and angry due to service failures that occurred on Monday and Tuesday. By Monday afternoon, thousands of Blackberry users found that they could no longer send emails, BBMs or access applications such as Twitter and Facebook from their phones. These problems affected Blackberry users in Europe but soon spread with users all over the world experiencing similar problems. …
Cloud Analytics: Delivering More Using Less
With Cloud Computing becoming an ever-encroaching wide-scale reality, driving data centre efficiency is set to become a huge priority. What has come to be referred to as Cloud Analytics is quickly becoming a crucial investment. One company, Sentilla is currently leading the way and has patented technology allowing the ability to monitor the resource consumption of virtual machines. Monitoring a non-physical asset has proven to be relatively difficult making such …
The London Riots: Being Prepared for the Unpredictable
The London Riot clean up is underway. Many businesses however will have experienced detrimental affects to their IT infrastructures. It is essential that your business is prepared for the unpredictable. During turbulent times it is vital to have a reliable Data Backup and Recovery protocol in place. Here are some criteria that Backup Technology have put together as a checklist to help businesses ensure their data is protected. > Automated …
