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Back in 2017, Microsoft announced that they would be opening two data centers in Africa by the end of 2018. Even though they missed that deadline, the data centers are now up and running.
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Data centers are the lifeblood of the enterprise, allowing for scale never before imagined and access to critical information and applications. Businesses are increasingly migrating to the cloud, making the role of the data center more and more valuabl… Continue reading Your data center’s IT is lock-tight, are the facility’s operations?
It’s pretty surreal to watch all these fish congregate around the data center like it’s an artificial reef. Continue reading Watch Fish Swim By Petabytes of Data at Microsoft’s Underwater Data Center
A Chinese hacking group broke into a national data center in Mongolia late last year in an expansive cyber-espionage campaign that allowed the attackers to quietly plant malware into government websites, according to a new research report by Kaspersky Lab and supplemental analysis provided to CyberScoop. According to Kaspersky’s latest research, a known Chinese hacking group used watering hole-style attacks and spear phishing emails to breach specific employees of the Mongolian data center. After gaining individual access, they leveraged those accounts to gain additional control over the facility’s infrastructure. The episode began around October 2017. It was discovered by Kaspersky in March 2018. The Chinese speaking group that’s responsible is widely linked to Beijing. It’s tracked by the cybersecurity community under different names, including APT27, EmissaryPanda, IronPanda and LuckyMouse. They’ve been known to also target U.S. defense contractors. The Kaspersky report does not list Mongolia as the victim, but instead […]
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TLSv1.3 is a game changer for some enterprises and data centers, what if I can?t switch to end-to-end and need a transition phase or alternate solution? This provides some options as well as some possibilities for design and development work *if* ther… Continue reading What Are My Options? Session Encryption Protocols Looking Forward
Microsoft continues its steady pace of opening up new data centers and launching new regions for its Azure cloud. Today, the company announced the launch of two new regions in Australia. To deliver these new regions, Azure Australia Central and Central 2, Microsoft entered a strategic partnership with Canberra Data Centers and unsurprisingly, the regions […] Continue reading Microsoft launches 2 new Azure regions in Australia
Automation is an interesting conversation that I have had with many of our customers lately, especially with cloud migration in play and DevOps processes with continuous development becoming prevalent. We have seen many service disruptions in large cl… Continue reading Automation in Software Defined Data Centers
The senate on Thursday gave the thumbs up to a bill that is the subject of both support by tech companies and critique by privacy groups. Continue reading Senate Gives Nod To Controversial Cross-Border Data Access Bill
Hoping to curb suspicions surrounding its alleged relationship to Russian intelligence, Moscow-based cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab is set to start building a new data center in Switzerland, Reuters reports. The aim is to address recent concerns that Russian spies have supposedly leveraged the anti-virus platform to steal confidential files, according to documents seen by Reuters. In an official statement, the company explains that this new building is part of their larger Global Transparency Initiative. “We understand that during a time of geopolitical tension, mirrored by an increasingly complex cyber-threat landscape, people may have questions and we want to address them,” a company statement reads. The Swiss lab will store and analyze malicious computer files with unusual characteristics that come from customers geographically located in the United States and European Union. Only “abnormal” files will be sent on to Kaspersky headquarters in Moscow for further manual review. A source told Reuters that 99.6 percent […]
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Google today announced that it has expanded its recently launched Cloud Platform region in the Netherlands with an additional zone. The investment, which is worth a reported 500 million euros, expands the existing Netherlands region from two to three regions. With this, all four of the Central European Google Cloud Platform zones now feature three […] Continue reading Google expands its Cloud Platform region in the Netherlands