Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCompose a comprehensive electrical safety strategy and keep your data center staff safe from electrical hazards. Learn what best practices and standards you should consider. By Julia Borgini Data centers must ensure high availability, zero downtime and 24/7 service. Facility managers and technicians are skilled at maintaining these factors but might not always know all the electrical risks inherent in
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesSafety in the data center requires organizations to identify and address a variety of risk factors, from electrical systems to staff illness. By Allyson Larcom Data center facilities pose a variety of risks to the workers who operate them. Understanding proper data center safety is essential to protect staff. Common risks in data centers include environmental hazards, such as heat,
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesProtect your data center from potential fire hazards through proper mitigation, detection and suppression. Then, create a plan for recovery in the event of a fire. By Robert McFarlane Despite the rarity of data center fires, they can devastate your organization when they occur. Good fire protection provides insurance you hope you don’t have to use. Good data center fire
Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesCyber hygiene, or cybersecurity hygiene, is a set of practices organizations and individuals perform regularly to maintain the health and security of users, devices, networks and data. By Alissa Irei The goal of cyber hygiene is to keep sensitive data secure and protect it from theft or attacks. The concept works similarly to personal hygiene. Individuals maintain their health by taking precautionary
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThis is a must read for CIOs and other line managers. Share this list of phishing techniques and detection tips to help employees avoid phishing schemes. Plus, review technologies to protect your enterprise from phishing attacks. By Sharon Shea and Steven Weil Phishing attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, complex and common. According to a 2020 Proofpoint study, 90% of organizations
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesOne of the biggest challenges of network eavesdropping attacks is they are difficult to detect. Read about prevention measures to help keep your network safe from snoopers and sniffers. By Sharon Shea Network eavesdropping attacks, also known as network sniffing or network snooping attacks, occur when malicious actors take advantage of insecure network connections to exfiltrate data as it is being communicated. Just
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesA man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack is a type of cyber attack in which the attacker secretly intercepts and relays messages between two parties who believe they are communicating directly with each other. By Kinza Yasar and Michael Cobb The attack is a type of eavesdropping in which the attacker intercepts and then controls the entire conversation. MiTM cyber attacks pose a serious threat
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesA carbon offset is a credit that a person or organization can buy to decrease its carbon footprint. When the number of carbon offset credits obtained is equal to an individual or organization’s carbon footprint, that person or organization is carbon-neutral. By Ben Lutkevich Revenue generated from the purchase of carbon offsets is often — but not always — invested in
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesAmazon’s recent announcement to extend the useful life of its datacentre equipment has been deemed a positive decision for the cloud computing giant, but will other companies adopt this cost-saving and sustainability strategy? By Nicholas Fearn Amazon Web Services (AWS) made a surprise announcement during its February 2022 financial results about its plans to extend the useful life of the servers powering
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesStorage customers such as the German data processing service center GWDG have started to think about how they can archive data forever. It’s challenging and complex, but possible. By Paul Crocetti What do you do with data you need to archive forever? First of all, long-term data archiving for decades upon decades is not as simple as loading up tapes
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