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As the pandemic drags on and remote workforces stay remote, zero-trust and other lessons learned should come to the fore. Continue reading Security Takeaways from the Great Work-from-Home Experiment
Back in 2018, Microsoft began Project Natick, deploying a custom-designed data center to the sea floor off the coast of Scotland. Aiming to determine whether the underwater environment would bring benefits to energy efficiency, reliability, and performance, the project was spawned during ThinkWeek in 2014, an event designed to share …read more
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Data centers are fast becoming one of the most power-hungry industries, since they require such heavy-duty cooling and maintenance. Microsoft has now finished a two-year test of an unconventional solution – dropping a data center to the bottom of the s… Continue reading Microsoft retrieves its experimental underwater data center
The infamous Netwalker hacking group this week breached the security layers of data center giant Equinix and encrypted the data of its clients. A source shared the Netwalker ransom note with BleepingComputer, revealing that the attack occurred over the… Continue reading Netwalker Ransomware Operators Want $4.5 Million from Data Center Giant Equinix
Despite COVID-related supply and demand disruptions, customers deployed more data center ethernet switches in the first half of 2020 than they did in the same year-ago period, according to Crehan Research. Port shipments increased by 12% year-over-year… Continue reading Data center ethernet switches deployment increasing 12% year-over-year
A technical support intervention has revealed two zero-day vulnerabilities in the OS running on Cisco enterprise-grade routers that attackers are trying to actively exploit. Cisco plans to release software updates to plug these security holes, but in t… Continue reading Attackers are exploiting two zero-day flaws in Cisco enterprise-grade routers
Today, data centers are taking on new shapes and sizes and are existing in all-new locations, from traditional on-site operations to subsea locations with special cooling mechanisms. But one simple fact remains: Securing data centers is vital to any n… Continue reading Stop Treating Your Data Center Like a Block Tower
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are an indispensable tool for most businesses. They allow them to track business resources and commitments in real time and to manage day-to-day business processes (e.g., procurement, project management, manuf… Continue reading ERP security: Dispelling common misconceptions
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in a negative impact on organizations’ ability to manage their storage infrastructures in order to ensure continued access to an increasingly remote workforce and to satisfy health protocols put in pla… Continue reading The pandemic had a negative impact on data center operations
Cisco has released another batch of critical security updates for flaws in Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCMN) and the Cisco SD-WAN Solution software. Cisco Data Center Network Manager flaws Cisco Data Center Network Manager is the network managem… Continue reading Cisco fixes critical flaws in data center and SD-WAN solutions