(02/01/2014) North Virginia – LINX NoVA, the first neutral, mutually owned Internet exchange in the Northern Virginia area is now fully operational following two weeks of beta traffic trials. The first networks to connect over the exchange were Leaseweb and IX Reach.LINX NoVA provides ISPs, content owners and network operators with the ability to peer Internet traffic from a choice of three different physical data centre locations across the NoVA metro area – Ashburn, Reston and Manassas.LINX CEO John Souter said:”There has been a lot of attention worldwide for what we’re building here. Our members called on LINX to build…
Author: RealWire
02 January 2014 – We are delighted to announce that Greenstone’s enterprise level software is one of the first software tools to achieve G4-certification by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). GRI’s Certified Software and Tools Program guarantees that software and digital tools are using GRI content accurately, enabling robust and transparent reporting and making sustainability reports better, more accessible and easier to produce. Greenstone provides easy-to-use, secure software with automated, accurate and auditable reporting along with supporting services from a team of industry experts. Greenstone’s CSR Frameworks module has been designed to meet the requirements of GRI’s sustainability reporting framework…
Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of VAD Wick Hill Group, looks forward to the coming year. Current indications are that 2014 will build on 2013 and show continued overall growth for the IT Industry Security Thanks to the NSA and GCHQ, (coupled with ongoing allegations against the Chinese), security, corporate privacy and encryption have moved swiftly up the corporate agenda. Identity management, which has often been seen as a ‘nice to have’, will become even more of a ‘must have.’ For many years, wireless security was an afterthought to wireless deployment. However, in 2014, with the ratification of multi GBPS 802.11ac, wireless…
Time is running out for Windows XP and switching to software thin clients is a simple and cost effective solution, says IGELReading, UK, 2 January 2014 – With support for Windows XP set to end in April 2014; IGEL Technology says 2014 is the perfect time to consider software thin clients to ease the XP migration pain.The IGEL Universal Desktop Converter 2 (UDC2) software allows you to combine existing PC hardware and thin client operating system with centralized remote management. As a particularly low-cost solution to the XP problem, IGEL is recommending that companies check whether they could continue using…
CloudSigma’s Advanced Hybrid Cloud Offering Recognized for its Industry-First Private Patching and Secure Data AccessZurich, Switzerland – December 23, 2013 – CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, has been shortlisted in the 2013-2014 Cloud Awards Program, marking the third consecutive year that the company has been acknowledged for its customer-centric public cloud platform. Honored as a finalist in the Best Hybrid Cloud Solution category, CloudSigma is being recognized for its hybrid hosting offering, which grants customers all the flexibility, scalability and accessibility of a public cloud without the security concerns. CloudSigma’s hybrid hosting capabilities are…