Articles

Genetic Research Group protects cutting-edge research material with Overland Storage solution

30 Sep 2011

The University of Sheffield’s Centre for Development and Biomedical Genetics (CDBG) is an internationally recognized and multi grant award-winning center for biological research. 

Targeted cyber-attacks: how can organisations step out of the firing line?

30 Sep 2011

Cybercriminals are employing new, sophisticated and highly targeted methodologies that are completely circumventing traditional security. In this article, Bradley Anstis takes a look at traditional network security solutions and explains how businesses can shore up their defences in the face of targeted attacks.

In recent years, cybercriminals have shifted the way they operate by abandoning large-scale, gen eralised scams, such as malicious spam, in favour of more targeted and customised techniques, such as spear-phishing targeted senior executives in the hope of stealing passwords, customer details, critical company information and intellectual property (IP).  What is at stake is everything from military secrets to the operation of critical infrastructure like power and water utilities – no organisation or sector is immune.

Nomura banks on success with Cisco’s Data Centre 3.0

28 Sep 2011

International finance firm invests in the data centre of the future

Nomura is a leading financial services group and the preeminent Asian-based investment bank with worldwide reach. Nomura provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in over 30 countries.

High & Low: Performance & Latency Matters

28 Sep 2011

How the speed & throughput of next generation networks matters for mission-critical applications, and the influence it has on choice of data centre location

In networking, speed matters. Bandwidth-hungry apps and mission-critical systems demand ever more throughput and capacity. While the trail has been blazed in data-intensive sectors such as stockbroking, commodities trading, and the film and media industries, it’s hard to think of any business area that would not benefit from improved wide-area network performance. 

Making the case for a greener data centre

28 Sep 2011

Data centres are widely known for consuming a lot of energy. According to some estimates, almost two per cent of the nation’s electricity is used to power computers and telecoms equipment, most of it in specialised data centres. One data centre facility can use up to 50 times as much power as the equivalent in office spaceⁱ.However, operators have started driving up their efficiencies and driving down their costs and showing that they’re making their buildings more efficient and green.

iGovernment Energy Plans Could Prompt Data Centre Exodus – eWeek Europe, 3 August 2010

Popularity of cloud computing is continuing to soar

27 Sep 2011

Although not a new concept, the popularity of cloud computing is continuing to soar, says Robert Rutherford, Managing Director of, QuoStar Solutions. Many companies, however, are still unsure about what impact "moving to the cloud" will have on their business continuity plans

Product Review: Mimecast Unified Email Management

26 Sep 2011

The reviewer, Exchange MVP and creator of ExclusivelyExchange.com J. Peter Bruzzese, recognized the platform’s ease of use, and its deep levels of functionality, flexibility and integration.

It’s not often I find a product overwhelming (in a good way). Typically, I find products do what they advertise themselves to do within the Exchange realm with a feature or two that might impress me along the way. Where Mimecast’s Unified Email Management (UEM) blew me away is that it does everything it advertises so smoothly, through a single console. Through cloud-based, geographically dispersed servers, they provide a 100% service availability SLA (with stiff financial penalties) for their solutions as well.

The need for consolidated enterprise security

22 Sep 2011

Security Event Information Management (SEIM) can provide the security leap-frog in a world of point solutions – to ensure there are no blind spots in your network security architecture

The Growing Need for a Consolidated or “Context Aware” View into Enterprise Security

Even with dedicated security personnel, it’s tough to monitor the millions of messages and log records generated by various security edge devices such as intrusion detection systems, firewalls, anti-DoS and application firewalls. Even more difficult is identifying patterns occurring over time and across separate devices, but an SEIM system can build a centralized architecture that makes such tasks more feasible and allows for speedy compliance reports, audits and is absolutely required when prosecution of a perpetrator is needed.

Imperva Hacker Intelligence Initiative - Monthly Trend Report

22 Sep 2011

Hacker Intelligence Summary Report – An Anatomy of a SQL Injection Attack

This month’s report from Imperva’s Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) focuses on the rise in SQL Injection (SQLi) attacks on the Web. Dominating headlines for the past year, SQLi has become a widely-known, even outside the circle of security professionals. And for good reason: SQL injection is probably the most expensive and costly attack since it is mainly used to steal data.

GEO Foundation Case Study

19 Sep 2011

Based in Indiana, USA, the Greater Educational Opportunities (GEO) Foundation has worked to improve education since 1998. Specifically, GEO Foundation helped foster support for academy law and now sponsors four academies in the United States that serve more than 1,200 students.

Understanding the correlation between data leakage and the security mission

13 Sep 2011

In a number of cases, Internet-attached private systems are not always maintained in an up-to-date state and, as such, are vulnerable to exploitation by mischief-makers and, of course, their cybercriminal peers.

nlyte Express Edition Solution Brief

08 Sep 2011

The nlyte data center infrastructure management (DCIM) suite provides data center professionals with the predictive intelligence and management controls they need to reduce operational risks and achieve smarter, more efficient and highly available data centers. The nlyte Express Edition is our entry level solution designed to get companies quickly started with DCIM. The nlyte Express Edition takes the risk out of converting from manual processes and spreadsheets by providing a cost-effective approach to implementing DCIM.

Managing Risk in the Cloud

07 Sep 2011

Adopting Cloud computing may save money, but how does it change risk?

The Cloud allows the procurement of IT services from both internal and external suppliers to be optimized because the services are delivered through the Internet in a standard way. The Cloud is not a single model, but covers a wide spectrum from applications shared between multiple tenants to virtual servers used by one customer and hosted internally.

The seven deadly hosting sins

06 Sep 2011

Your internet is mission-critical, and your provider pledges to keep to SLAs, so you can relax. Or can you?

The team here has picked up just seven of the worst examples of ‘hosting sins’ for your entertainment - but also to act as a cautionary tale. Many of these ‘sins’ were the reason customers left their previous provider and came to Iconnyx. The stories are based on fact but the names have been changed to protect identity... 

4 Steps to Defeat a DDOS Attack on your Organisation

01 Sep 2011

Millions of computers around the world are controlled by cybercriminals. These computers have been infected with software robots, or “bots”, that automatically connect to command and control servers. The command and control servers then instruct the bots to carry out illicit activity, such as performing denial of service attacks, or harvesting application content. Building these networks of bots, or botnets, has become a lucrative business for botnet operators, who rent out their bots to the highest bidder.