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Managed Services & Hosting Summit 2013 – initial sponsors and keynote announced

Sponsors include: AVG, Autotask, Dot Hill, EVault, Gigamon, Interxion and Tarmin; Tiffani Bova, VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner Research, will provide the opening keynote.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Infrastructure Management Storage + Servers Virtualisation

Rackspace® Hosting has announced the addition of the Brocade® Vyatta® vRouter to its portfolio of networking and security solutions for the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud. The new Brocade Vyatta vRouter is a software network appliance that offers a customer-selectable software image for easy-to-configure firewall capabilities that deliver increased security. The solution also provides Virtual Private Network (VPN) gateway functionality and other networking services to customers, such as...

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A quarter of UK SMEs are risking significant data loss by storing data on-site instead of embracing cloud technology.

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The Asplenium business of Arrow Electronics Inc. has been officially approved by the France Ministry of Health to the highest level of certification for the hosting of health data.

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Frankfurt attracted 43% of European data centre take up in the first quarter of 2013, according to new research from global property advisor CBRE.

Wearable tech will drive the rise of the ‘human cloud’ of personal data

Rackspace Hosting has announced findings of an in-depth study into the use of wearable technology and its impact on consumers and businesses. The research finds that, although only 18 per cent of UK and US respondents have actually used wearable technology, 82 per cent of those users in America and 71 per cent in Britain believe that these cloud-powered devices have enhanced their lives.