Datacentre disaster recovery and security

Get up-to-date news and information on disaster recovery (DR) processes and planning to ensure that your business will stay up and running in the event of a disaster. Checks on generator testing, load testing, breaker design and fuel supply need to be taken care of long before a disaster hits so that when a disaster is happening you are not spending time doing things that you would not normally be doing. Find out about backup power supply products and how to failover and failback servers in the event of an outage. Discover ways to keep disaster recovery documentation up to date and available to all employees. This section also includes news and how-to information on securing your buildings against theft and natural disasters as well IT security, compliance and risk management.

September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22
PoINT to offer on-site S3 object storage archive on disk and tape

Archival Gateway can cluster up to 256 tape readers to provide S3 object storage clusters capable of storing 50 billion objects per bucket, and giving throughput of 230GBps
September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22
Datacentre operators urged to tighten up their carbon emissions and water usage reporting

The 12th annual Global Data Center Survey from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute suggests the industry has work to do to improve its reporting on sustainability, as regulation looms large
September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22
Cloud compromise a doddle for threat actors as victims attest

Two separate studies into the state of public cloud security reveal insight into the ease with which threat actors can compromise vast numbers of targets, and some of the challenges security teams are facing in the cloud
September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22
OVHcloud opens new datacentre in Strasbourg at site of March 2021 fire

A year and a half after a fire at its datacentre campus in Strasbourg destroyed one of its facilities and damaged another, OVHcloud has opened a new server farm at the site

Burning up: Mitigation should sustain datacentre operations during extreme heat

July’s temperature spike put headline heat on regional operations at Google and Oracle. Datacentre operators must side-step similar mistakes to avoid climate change-related collapse in future Continue Reading
Data classification: What it is and why you need it

To be compliant, to ensure data is optimally protected, that it is available, that it can be analysed and that it is stored most cost-effectively – these are reasons why data classification is vital to organisations Continue Reading
Icelandic datacentres may lead the way to green IT

Iceland may soon become even more attractive to companies wanting to minimise their carbon footprint while using high-performance computing services Continue Reading

Why does ransomware still work?

As someone who first encountered ransomware during the last millennium – thankfully at second-hand – and has been writing about it for almost as long, I sometimes find myself amazed by the high ... Continue Reading
Ransomware teaches us the importance of data protection

Several years ago, around the time that ransomware attacks started making the front pages of mainstream newspapers, not just in the IT press, I took part in a number of webcasts on the topic. The ... Continue Reading
IT As Marriage Guidance Counsellor...

In my last blog, I spoke about the need to get immediate access to network behaviour patterns, in order to detect anomalies. An extension of that need is the ability to make instant use of that ... Continue Reading

Security Think Tank: Your path to understanding attack paths

The modern-day abundance of platforms, apps and IT tools presents malicious actors with a web of interconnection that is easily exploited to move rapidly through the network to compromise critical assets. Security teams need to understand these attack pathways better in order to fight back Continue Reading
Security Think Tank: Edge security in the world of Covid-19

That datacentre security is a complex subject is not in doubt and, given the trend to move beyond centralised datacentre to distributed environments, this is not going to change. How can security professionals ensure such setups are just as secure as the traditional centralised model? Continue Reading
Security Think Tank: Edge datacentre security depends on specific needs

That datacentre security is a complex subject is not in doubt and, given the trend to move beyond centralised datacentres to distributed environments, this is not going to change. How can security professionals ensure such setups are just as secure as the traditional centralised model? Continue Reading