What is DDoS? Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack’s target an organisation’s web infrastructure with the intent of causing the victim financial loss or reputational damage. Who does it affect? It is claimed that we have just seen the worlds biggest DDoS attack, deployed by a Dutch man against the not for profit organisation Spamhaus. [...]
Most organisations believe that they have their company critical data processing kept in a resilient facility – indeed most third party data centres and Cloud/Hosting services will often boast about their Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS) and Stand-By Generators, but how many really test these out…I mean really test them? Reading the horror stories of IT [...]
A recent incident on our network underlines the potential for improved reliability with the new generations of DWDM equipment. During some planned maintenance, a network engineer from another telecoms operator disturbed one of Vtesse’s fibres at a data centre. We shall never know exactly what happened but probably a tight kink was put into a [...]
Did you know that at the current rate of decline the Artic won’t have any ice during summer months in less than 50 years?! Two weeks ago (21st November) was the Vtesse Networking evening, with a focus towards our channel partners and how we can learn to work more closely together to offer all our customers [...]
Vtesse Cirrus are proud to announce that we have been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2012 DatacenterDynamics EMEA Award for ‘Innovation in Outsourcing’ for the data centre migration project of Arup, the leading civil engineering company. This is the 4th awards shortlist for this project in 2012, after winning the DCS 2012 award earlier this [...]