AWS Direct Connect availability extended to eight Equinix data centres

Equinix, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect cloud service in Equinix’s Germany International Business Exchange (IBX®) data centers. With AWS Direct Connect, companies across Europe can connect their customer-owned and managed infrastructure directly to AWS, establishing a private connection to the cloud that can reduce costs, increase performance, and deliver more consistency. The Equinix Frankfurt location brings the total number...

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Databarracks addresses UK’s DR shortcomings with new Disaster Recovery Toolkit

Last month, cloud service provider Databarracks reported a dangerous lack of disaster recovery (DR) planning within small and medium UK organisations. The findings, taken from their Data Health Check 2014, suggested that a mere 30 per cents of small businesses and 54 per cent of medium businesses had any kind of Business Continuity Plan (BCP) in place.

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Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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