The Enemy Within : Disgruntled employees danger to data centre security

The import and export of defence and military related technologies is a sensitive issue that is subject to a variety of stringent regulations. Countries are so sensitive in this area due to the potential impact on national...

Switching software and hardware from a licensed, in-house product to a leased service has many benefits for businesses. With web-hosted software, all that's needed to access the software is an internet connection, a web browser,...

Cisco has developed a new data centre virtual firewall appliance aimed at allowing organisations running multi-tenant clouds in a secure environment. According to an article on eWeek, the company said the ASA 1000V is a...

Previously, we discussed the physical and logical security provided by Microsoft for Office 365 data centres across all geographic locations. Overall security is important and it reduces the impact of any intrusion attempts, but...

Microsoft Office 365 promises a complete user experience in terms of word processing, collaboration, messaging, voice and video calls, publishing, etc. through the different component services like Office Professional Plus,...

Google has offered a rare glimpse into the physical and virtual security measures it deploys at its data centres to protect user data.Google has always been secretive about its data centres in order to hide its practices from...

From a user perspective, virtualisation is a fantastic resource, allowing users - within finite limits of course - to fire up new virtual machines, in most cases, on an on-demand basis. But from an IT manager’s perspective,...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has released sophisticated new security solutions for physical and virtual environments to prevent data leaks from a converged infrastructure.The new security solutions are aimed at providing a secure...

Extending your IT resource into the cloud has become a lot more secure, as Steve Gold explains how businesses of all sizes can create a secure VPN between their physical IT storage and the cloud, allowing them access to...

(This article was written by Bilal Mehdi, Senior Consultant, Glasshouse Technologies (UK) Ltd reveals the top ten tips for getting the most out of cloud.) Many organisations are starting to adopt cloud computing services in order...

The Government has asked all public sector bodies to make future IT purchases consistent with cloud computing so that it can move all its digital services into a private, secure 'cloud' called 'G-cloud' for government bodies.In...

Data Centre World Conference & Expo is the UK's largest gathering of professionals responsible for designing, commissioning and running a data centre or server room. It is also the only UK exhibition and free conference...

To overcome this, the more sophisticated data replication solutions provide byte-level replication for application system states so that administrators have the ability to provision an entire server at the touch of a button and...

Knowing when a member of staff left the data centre is equally as important as knowing when they entered, but most data centre operators do not record this. After all it is easy for a member of staff to enter the data centre for...

Many organisations are adopting virtualisation technologies in their data centre to secure the benefits of increased hardware utilisation, reduced power consumption and simplified management. The reliability of this new...