Category Archive for : ‘Reliability’

As many companies have already discovered, it’s only a matter time before you’re hit with a cyber attack of some sort. The question is how will you respond. A strategic plan could make the difference between your company quickly recovering — or faced with the possibility of losing millions of dollars.

According to the latest statistics, cybercrime is costing companies around the world damages to the tune of $450 billion a year. Along with that, the media cost of cybercrime has increased at a rate of nearly 200 percent during the

Data center experts have known for some time that employees have been among the top concerns when it comes to vulnerabilities to cyberattacks.

However, a recent report revealed that the problem may be more extensive than previously suspected. According to QinetiQ, companies are vulnerable to many cyberattacks because they don’t have an understanding of how to manage employee behavior — from negligence to more purposeful intrusions.

The British company said that programs designed to equip employees to be alert about security risks are essential as part of efforts to cut down on

Protecting your data center requires attention to detail at numerous levels. While your IT team is likely enhancing security against the type of cyber attacks that have been grabbing headlines, it’s important to examine your physical location for security gaps.

Take a look at the following best practices for building up security at your data center facility.

Conduct regular audits. Whether or not your company undergoes an external audit, your team should commit to conducting your own audits to determine any areas of the data center facility that could be vulnerable. As

Chances are your company, like many others, is using encryption to ensure the privacy of your data. However, as it turns out, cyber criminals have become adept at covering up breaches using the same technology, according to a study that was recently released.

In fact, encryption has been used to disguise the malware in nearly half of cyber attacks during a 12-month period, the study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and A10 Networks revealed. That’s presents a significant problem because SSL encryption allows the malware to go undetected by many security

With no end in sight for industries’ demands for big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile applications, companies are constantly faced with the challenge to scale IT capacity — and quickly.

That’s what seems to be driving continued growth for the colocation market — which has grown 11 percent since 2015. That growth rate is projected to continue for the next two years, according to 451 Research’s Datacenter Market Sizing Forecast Model.

Should you choose to outsource to a colocation data center to meet increasing demands for capacity and flexibility,

With about half of China’s 1.357 billion population connected to the Internet, it’s no surprise it’s among the countries expressing grave concerns about data center efficiency. Worse yet, many data centers in that country haven’t kept pace with technology that would minimize their environmental footprint.

Beijing, China, which has one of the highest pollution levels in the world, recently announced a ban that would keep any data center with a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 1.5 or above from continuing its operations, according to Environment 360, a publication of the Yale

Innovations for data centers, which consume massive amounts of natural resources to operate, have often focused on efficiencies to lessen their environmental footprint. While those innovations are leading to decreased energy consumption, the government recently released a report that tries to quantify just how much water the nation’s data centers are using.

According to DataCenterKnowledge.com, the study primarily focused on energy consumption at data centers. However, it also took into account the electricity that’s generated as part of the water’s function in powering and cooling data centers.

Here are some findings in

With hundreds of Delta Air Lines flights recently grounded in the wake of a power outage, companies of all sizes started taking a hard look at their own IT operations. At the top of the list? An assessment of disaster recovery plans.

More than likely, the overall damage to Delta has yet to be assessed. According to the Wall Street Journal, the carrier not only is facing millions of dollars in lost revenue, it is suffering a major blow to its brand reputation as one of the nation’s leading international airlines.

Companies the

Over the past two years, we’ve been talking a lot about our new Fort Wayne facility. It’s taken longer than anticipated, but for good reason.

In a recent Journal Gazette article, our team was interviewed about the project and where it stands. Why has the project taken so long? It all comes down to three little letters: EMP.

The Journal Gazette describes the devastating effects EMP could cause masterfully:

“Electromagnetic pulses are bursts of energy that can create power surges in electronic devices large and small – think massive power transformers,

This should come as no surprise – With the increased popularity of the cloud, cyber attacks have followed in its wake, with Sophos reporting a 45 percent increase in cyber attacks in the cloud during 2015. It’s been a steadily alarming trend. Two years ago, Alert Logic’s Cloud Security Report noted that brute force attacks on cloud environments had spiked to impact 44 percent of its customers, up from 30 percent in 2013.

In response to the growing threats, spending on information security is climbing, with the research company Gartner predicting