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The European General Data Protection Regulation – a major opportunity for cloud providers

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New AIIM whitepaper highlights the potential to deliver EU-wide services under a single operations model, but also the risk if organisations do not comply. The forthcoming European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) offers a single law for organisations to follow, but increases fines up to 100 million Euros if found guilty of a ‘negligent breach’ of privacy or loss of data.

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U.K. research released by Juniper Networks reveals that nearly one quarter of respondents (21.8 percent) said they don’t use cloud technology or don’t know what it is, yet the same respondents spend large amounts of time using digital, cloud-based applications such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Spotify. The findings highlight a large disparity between consumers’ digital behaviour and their understanding of the technology that powers it.

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

Prior to becoming a customer at LDeX, MoneyMate had been soley reliant on a larger data centre provider based in Dublin for a number of years where the company’s servers, systems and infrastructure had been located.

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NHS and public sector organisations can now purchase colocation hosting services from Redcentric via the NOE CPC purchasing framework.

New benchmarking studies reveal how users can get up to 60 per cent more performance from any existing infrastructure

Bare metal cloud provider Bigstep debunks a number of infrastructure myths, such as more CPUs equal more performance and that OS choice has only minimal impact on performance.

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Users of Diligent Boardbooks®, the world’s most widely-used board portal service, now have the option to host their data within Europe in a data centre located in Frankfurt, Germany, with a disaster recovery site in Düsseldorf. More than €1.7 million has been invested into making Diligent Boardbooks available in both facilities.

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East Africa Data Centre receives Tier III certification

Data centre becomes first in east and central Africa to win certification from Uptime Institute.

Eaton study finds gap between digital transformation and energy transition efforts

New S&P Global Market Intelligence report commissioned by Eaton assesses the intersection of...

The European data centre market is set to end 2019 with the highest ever level of annual activity

The four largest European colocation FLAP markets of Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris are set...

Schneider Electric, StorMagic and Hewlett Packard Enterprise launch collaborative 'Edge in a Box'

Joint offer enables IT Professionals to overcome challenges associated with distributed...

Colt Data Centre Services acquires new site in Osaka

The site will host a major new hyperscale data centre in Osaka, further strengthening Colt DCS’...

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