EcoXpert™ partnership delivers a state-of-the-art smart building

Credit to Author: Customer Voices| Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 14:47:03 +0000

Managing a data center’s environment, security, and power is vital to operations. The smallest disruption can cause the loss of critical data services, and the smallest inefficiencies can multiply energy… Read more »

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Apple, Amazon server spy story is wake-up call to security pros (u)

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 04:29:00 -0700

Apple and Amazon have strenuously denied Bloomberg’s claims of a sophisticated hardware exploit against servers belonging to them and numerous other entities, including U.S. law enforcement  

Chinese, Apple and chips

Put in very simple terms, the claim is that malicious chips were found inside servers used in data centers belonging to the tech firms.

These chips (it’s claimed) worked to exfiltrate data from those servers, which were themselves sourced from server manufacturer Super Micro. That company’s server products are/were also used by Amazon, the U.S. government, and 30 other organizations. The chips were allegedly put in place by employees bribed by Chinese government agents.

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Apple, Amazon server spy story is wake-up call to security pros

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 04:29:00 -0700

Apple and Amazon have strenuously deniedBloomberg’s claims of a sophisticated hardware exploit against servers belonging to themselves and numerous other entities, including U.S. law enforcement  

Chinese, Apple and chips

Put in very simple terms, the claim is that malicious chips were found inside servers used in data centers belonging to the tech firms.

These chips (it’s claimed) worked to exfiltrate data from those servers, which were themselves sourced from server manufacturer, Super Micro. That company’s server products are/were also used by Amazon, the U.S. government and 30 other organizations. The chips were (it is alleged) put in place by employees bribed by Chinese government agents.

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Wi-Fi-as-a-service: An Emerging Opportunity for Telecom Provider ITS Fiber

Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:28:43 +0000

“My internet is down.” “My Wi-Fi isn’t working.” Customer service reps at network providers hear these countless times per day; they naturally get blamed. ITS Fiber, however, has a record… Read more »

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How to Capture “Lessons Learned” with Cloud-based DCIM

Credit to Author: Kim Povlsen| Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 18:04:54 +0000

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana From a distributed IT and data center monitoring perspective, what if cloud-based data center infrastructure management (DCIM)… Read more »

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Flexibility is Key for Meeting Colocation Customer Requirements at Kao Data

Credit to Author: Greg Jones| Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:00:00 +0000

One of my duties at Datacloud Europe 2018 was to chair a panel of leading colocation players discussing how data centers are evolving to meet shifting clients’ needs. Amongst the… Read more »

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