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Cloud contracts ‘need more transparency’

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Buyers of commercial cloud services, especially software as a service (SaaS), are finding security provisions inadequate. Gartner, Inc. said SaaS contracts often have ambiguous terms regarding the maintenance of data confidentiality, data integrity and recovery after a data loss incident. This leads to dissatisfaction among cloud services users. It also makes it harder for service providers to manage risk and defend their risk position to auditors and regulators.

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With the global market for Hosted PBX and Unified Communications services estimated to rapidly grow with 262 million SMB VoIP subscribers in 2015, the central London colocation data centre, City Lifeline has today announced that 01 Telecom has signed a three year contract to expand its network equipment infrastructure into City Lifeline’s London data centre.

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Move is aimed at growing partnerships built around Syncsort’s data integration solutions across Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mainframe, and Hadoop. Syncsort is extending its partner programme to actively recruit regional systems integrators (RSIs) that have Big Data practices. Syncsort is looking for RSIs that have specialised systems integration solutions and services expertise that will add value for customers using DMX-h, DMX, and MFX ETL and Sort for a broad variety of use cases to sort,...

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Siemon has launched low loss versions of its standard loss plug-and-play cable assemblies and modules. Expanding its fibre connectivity offering, these new products are designed to help data centre managers contend with today’s shrinking optical loss budgets and to support multiple mated pairs for flexible 10, 40 and 100 gigabit applications.

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The University of St Andrews IT department has won two awards.

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Oxfam and HelpAge International take part in first ever DataKind UK DataDive event.

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DC Facilities + Colo

Cloud contracts ‘need more transparency’

City Lifeline data centre supports 01 Telecom’s global growth

Syncsort expands regional systems integrator programme for Big Data practices

Siemon launches new low loss plug-and-play fibre

University of St Andrews department scoops awards

Volunteer data scientists help charities learn the value of Big Data

Kao Data names CBRE as its new Data Centre Facilities Management Partner

Subzero Engineering donates SIS 212 cleanroom to Purdue University

Inter.link partners with Telehouse and London Internet Exchange (LINX)

Critical Facilities Solutions launches in EMEA

Look before you leap: a guide to resilient hybrid cloud migration

Data centres urged to re-evaluate contingency plans due to increasing outages

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Equinix Insider - White Ops President & COO, Eddie Schwartz