Cloud contracts ‘need more transparency’

Buyers of commercial cloud services, especially software as a service (SaaS), are finding security provisions inadequate. Gartner, Inc. said SaaS contracts often have ambiguous terms regarding the maintenance of data confidentiality, data integrity and recovery after a data loss incident. This leads to dissatisfaction among cloud services users. It also makes it harder for service providers to manage risk and defend their risk position to auditors and regulators.

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City Lifeline data centre supports 01 Telecom’s global growth

With the global market for Hosted PBX and Unified Communications services estimated to rapidly grow with 262 million SMB VoIP subscribers in 2015, the central London colocation data centre, City Lifeline has today announced that 01 Telecom has signed a three year contract to expand its network equipment infrastructure into City Lifeline’s London data centre.

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Syncsort expands regional systems integrator programme for Big Data practices

Move is aimed at growing partnerships built around Syncsort’s data integration solutions across Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mainframe, and Hadoop. Syncsort is extending its partner programme to actively recruit regional systems integrators (RSIs) that have Big Data practices. Syncsort is looking for RSIs that have specialised systems integration solutions and services expertise that will add value for customers using DMX-h, DMX, and MFX ETL and Sort for a broad variety of use cases to sort,...

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Siemon launches new low loss plug-and-play fibre

Siemon has launched low loss versions of its standard loss plug-and-play cable assemblies and modules. Expanding its fibre connectivity offering, these new products are designed to help data centre managers contend with today’s shrinking optical loss budgets and to support multiple mated pairs for flexible 10, 40 and 100 gigabit applications.

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Equinix Insider - White Ops President & COO, Eddie Schwartz

Eddie has over 25 years experience in information security, including recent work as the CISO of RSA, the Security Division of EMC, and Co-Founder/CSO of NetWitness.

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