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Ways To Improve Your Data Centre's Online Security
It’s been documented that Microsoft fights off more than 7 trillion cyber threats per day, and allocates around $1 billion every year to cyber security for its cloud data centres. While your data centre may not see a Microsoft amount of cyber threats per day or spend as much annually, it is vital that you have a comprehensive plan in place for the protection of your digital data from theft or corruption.
From Storms, Floods to Climate Change: Is Your Data Centre At risk?
For an insight of the climate change risk to UK data centres, earlier this year the Committee of Climate Change offered a detailed report. The authors pointed out that it’s difficult to make a quantitative assessment of the risks due to the lack of visibility into locations and connectivity arrangements of the UK’s private-sector data centres. Predictably, though, there is an increase in the frequency and severity of flooding -this is described as one of the most significant threats.
Why Data Centre Colocation is the future!
Towards the end of 2017, global cloud giant AWS (Amazon Web Services) announced a new service called ‘Bare Metal Instances’. This allows clients to run their applications directly on physical services that are live in Amazon’s data centres – without virtualisation, in other words, and therefore not really in the cloud at all. Critics have been quick to frame the move as AWS coming down on the traditional colocation solution and dedicated server hosting market. Data Center Dynamics have stated that AWS "could undermine one of the main selling points of colo providers”. Of course, it’s more complex than that.
How Future Proof Is Your Data Centre?
Future proofing data centre infrastructures is one of the key areas where IT professionals seem to lack the most confidence according to the research carried out by management specialists Eaton. Out of a survey of 300 respondents, just 37% said their facilities’ infrastructure was "Strong and future proof” and just 30% said the same of their resilience and disaster recover measures.
The Data Centre: From Business Resource To Business Backbone!
What Is Data Centre Colocation?
The important decision to expand, consolidate or move your data centre is one that must be weighed in the context of cost, operational reliability and security. With all these important factors in mind, more companies are finding that colocation offers the solution they need without the hassle of managing their own data centre. Known simply as a "Colo”, data centre colocation refers to a service provided by a company that offers a shared, secure space for businesses to store hardware related to data storage, data and other equipment. The customer engages with the colo company in a way like a rental agreement with a property manager whereby a customer rents space in the facility whether its hardware or data.
