Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea off Orkney to investigate whether it can boost energy efficiency. The data centre, a white cylinder containing computers, could sit on the sea floor for up to five years. An undersea cable brings the data centre power and takes its data to the shore and the wider internet – but if the computers onboard break, they cannot be repaired. Orkney was chosen because it is a major centre for renewable energy research. The theory is that the cost of cooling the computers will be cut by placing them underwater. “We think we actually get much better cooling underwater than on land,” says Ben Cutler, who is in charge of what Microsoft … Read More
The Benefits of Dropbox Business
If you are finally biting the bullet and taking steps to migrate from a traditional, on-premise file server to a cloud provider, then you won’t miss Dropbox Business on your search. Dropbox is aggressively asserting itself as the go-to cloud based provider for Business Storage, File Sharing and Collaboration; all of which are becoming increasing more relevant to the global business world. So exactly what are the Benefits of Dropbox Business? And how it will simplify and streamline efficiencies in the workplace? Storage Storing your data on a Fileserver or NAS is fast becoming a thing of the past. With Dropbox Business there are several options that range from a basic 2TB of shared storage and upwards to unlimited, it … Read More
The name is Sync, Dropbox Business Smart Sync
When we heard about Dropbox’s code name “Project Infinite” at last year’s Dropbox Partner Forum we could hardly contain our excitement. It promised a feature that all of us here at IP6net were convinced would be a game changer for the file sharing and cloud storage solution provider. It was finally released last week; and it doesn’t disappoint! Over the last 10 years we have seen hard drives rapidly increase in size, with laptops regularly coming complete with 1TB of storage as standard, but when Solid State Drives were released, clients raced to upgrade desktops and laptops with silicon based drives. These delivered around 50% more performance than their magnetic predecessors with one small problem; space. An average SSD delivered … Read More
IP6net achieves Dropbox Select Reseller status
IP6net has recently achieved Select Partner status with Dropbox in the Dropbox Business Reseller Program, which is designed to provide Resellers with the training, systems and tools necessary to deliver Dropbox Business to customers. Select Partner status is granted to Resellers who are fully engaged and on-board with the Dropbox Business offering and can demonstrate best practice case studies to support this. Eligibility for this status is reserved for Resellers, such as IP6net, that have both a high volume of sales and expertise in the successful implementation of Dropbox Business. It requires Resellers to invest in the platform technically by way of advanced training and expects a required level of competency in terms of customer support. David Davies, Technical Director … Read More
Meraki Cloud Managed Security Cameras
Cisco Meraki enter the physical security market with cloud managed cameras. The MV family brings Meraki magic to the video security world. Impossibly simple to deploy, configure, and manage, both the MV21 and MV71 provide reliable security at any scale. MV security cameras are another step towards broadening Meraki’s impact beyond just networking and unifying more components of IT. By leveraging advances in solid state memory technology and Meraki’s expertise in cloud management, MV removes the need for additional on premise hardware and standalone software packages, like the network video recorder (NVR) and video management software (VMS). In an industry particularly encumbered with dated technology, we’re eager to streamline and simplify purchasing, deployment, and monitoring of video security systems. Bandwidth Conscious … Read More
IP6net reaffirms it’s commitment to dropbox business
IP6net have been Dropbox partners since the programs inception in 2013. Recently Dropbox have changed the requirements of achieving partner status and IP6net are pleased to announce we have been accepted into the new program. IP6net partnered with Dropbox to offer our customers the leading file sync and share solution, Dropbox Business. Dropbox Business is a powerful collaboration platform that allows employees to access their files anytime, anywhere, while keeping IT administrators in control. With the power of Dropbox Business, your employees can: Save a file to Dropbox and sync changes across all their devices Quickly & securely share files with co-workers and customers Access files offline and in areas with limited internet connectivity With Dropbox Business admin controls, your IT administrators … Read More
Power outage affects large parts of BT’s broadband network
Another major UK Internet outage occurred on Thursday morning, this time reportedly caused by a power failure at Telehouse North (TH10). The outage appeared to have started at around 7am, with at least one network at Telehouse North falling over due to a reported loss of power. The situation had mostly been resolved by around 11am, though some UK broadband users are still reporting spotty connections. Like Wednesday’s outage, it appears that BT has a significant amount of networking equipment at Telehouse North. The has affected an unknown number of BT and Plusnet broadband subscribers, plus other smaller ISPs and services such as Zen Internet that make significant use of BT’s backhaul network. Telehouse issued the following statement: We are aware that there has been … Read More
123-reg accidentally deletes client Websites in error
Web hosting firm 123-reg has accidentally deleted an unspecified number of its customers’ websites. The company, which hosts 1.7m sites in the UK, said an error made during maintenance “effectively deleted” what was on some of its servers. “We can conclude that the issues faced have resulted in some data loss for some customers,” the firm admitted. It started a “recovery process”, but advised customers with their own data backup to rebuild their own websites. The web host, which has 800,000 customers in the UK, would not say how many websites had been deleted. What went wrong? Websites are hosted on computers called servers that can dish up pages to thousands or millions of people at the same time. Some … Read More
Hacker’s typo trips the alarm on billion-dollar cyber bank heist
Cyber bank robbers have drained $101 million from Bangladesh’s central bank – an enormous heist as it is, but one that could have netted the crooks $1 billion if they didn’t get caught when they misspelled the name of one of the places they were trying to transfer money to. After they slipped past the bank’s security systems, the crooks allegedly masqueraded as Bangladeshi officials to submit a series of requests for the New York Federal Reserve to transfer large sums of money from its account in the country. Bangladesh Bank told the Financial Times that it was defrauded for a total of $101 million in bogus transfers. The last payment request was for $20 million, with the hackers instructing … Read More
HSBC Under Attack
HSBC is working with law enforcement to catch those behind a cyber attack that forced its personal banking websites in the UK to shutdown, its second major service outage this month, the bank said on Friday. Europe’s largest lender said it had “successfully defended” its systems against a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack but it was experiencing fresh threats, impeding full restoration of its services. “HSBC’s internet and mobile services have partially recovered, and we continue to work to restore a full service,” John Hackett, UK Chief Operating Officer, said in a statement. “We are closely monitoring the situation with the authorities,” he added. The outage began on Friday morning and online services were still down by 1630 GMT … Read More