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IT infrastructure might seem like boring, background work which isn’t too important, but it’s actually the lifeblood of your business that keeps your business online and your people and customers connected.
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The cost-of-energy crisis in the UK has hit every industry hard, and with a 635 % ...
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One of the impacts of GDPR is the issue of data sovereignty – that data is subject to the ...
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Modern technology is constantly evolving, and there are always new opportunities to ...
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Press Release 4D Data Centres, a leading UK-based data centre operator and infrastructure ...
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When GDPR came into force in 2018, there was something of a scramble to understand all ...
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It is no secret that AWS, Azure, and Google, like most cloud providers, charge nothing ...
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When a company entrusts their IT to a data centre, either through colocation or other ...
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One of the largest benefits of hosting your IT equipment in a data centre is that you ...
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If you're responsible for an IT setup then a firewall (or even more than one) is ...
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Organisations are always looking for ways to cut costs. For some this might be looking to ...
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Public cloud has been a total game-changer for both businesses and individuals alike. ...
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Cloud repatriation is a growing trend, but there’s a big question attached: when do you ...
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Public cloud has a lot of benefits, but its limitations can hinder a company's growth. ...
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IT infrastructure might seem like boring, background work which isn’t too important, but ...
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Cloud repatriation – the act of removing your workloads from the public cloud and onto ...
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A lot of businesses have private cloud as the goal for their IT, but to achieve this ...
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Watching TV recently, I was served an ad for hybrid cloud services which surprised me, ...
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If your business is looking to adopt a hybrid IT system, it means you get the best of ...
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With the complex nature of modern digital technologies, every business will need to take ...
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Whether you’re currently on public cloud, or considering it, you need to weigh up public ...
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Data centres underpin the economy, enabling almost every transaction and communication ...
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Remember that scene from the Matrix where Keanu Reeves emerges from his jellied pod, ...
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Every so often, you may see articles discussing the carbon footprint of spam, or the ...
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If you're reading this then there's a good chance you've just come from our 404 page when ...
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Digitisation, digitalisation, and digital transformation are frustratingly similar to ...
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The importance of cyber security can't be underestimated, with a third of UK businesses ...
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Press Release 4D Data Centres has been named Best Data Centre Operator at this year’s ...
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With efforts to tackle climate change ramping up, companies are feeling increased ...
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The cloud is everywhere, but is it the best or only option when making infrastructure ...
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Hybrid things are valuable because you get the best of both worlds. A hybrid car is ...
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Digital transformation is essential to the future of your business for a number of ...
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There are a lot of options when it comes to choosing cloud services for your business, ...
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It's non-negotiable that customers have around-the-clock access to your services, but ...
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“Digital Transformation” might just seem like a buzzword that’s thrown around between ...
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Hosting your IT in a data centre using colocation services is an opportunity to upgrade ...
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Ultimately, it's your staff who will be deploying and using your new digital ...
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Businesses are putting a lot of pressure onto IT teams to deploy new digital technologies ...
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A collection of the UK’s leading technical institutions, including 4D, are exhibiting at ...
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Every now and again the media locks onto the environmental impact of humanity’s digital ...
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95th percentile billing is also called burstable billing, and it’s a way of calculating ...
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The cloud is undoubtedly a great way to run more efficiently and increase flexibility. ...
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Server colocation is the act of hosting your servers in a data centre. Your servers will ...
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Hyperscale cloud is designed for enhanced scalability based on demand and it means ...
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PRESS RELEASE 4D Data Centres has successfully maintained an average net promoter score ...
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One of the deciding factors in how you plan your IT infrastructure is cost. But which is ...
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To make it easier for customers to raise tickets, request access, and check on their ...
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The cloud is such a great concept. Virtualise your workflows, downsize your hardware and ...
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What goes on behind the cloud? Cloud systems are only possible thanks to the layers that ...
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When researching your options for private cloud solutions you may have come across the ...
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Probably a safe bet that when Bob Dylan sang ‘the times, they are a-changing’, he had no ...
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When your IT needs outgrow the capacity of your in-house server room – whether in terms ...
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It’s no secret that the Covid-19 pandemic has fast-tracked digital and cloud ...
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Moving your IT to colocation or cloud is an IT upgrade which boosts your flexibility and ...
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Cost, security, reliability – there are a lot of factors to consider when choosing a ...
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Do you have an endpoint in mind for your digital transformation journey? For many ...
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The Covid-19 pandemic threw a lot at IT teams: sudden and wide-spread remote working, ...
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PRESS RELEASE 4D Data Centres has set a new sustainability standards for HPC with ...
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High performance computing (HPC) requires sophisticated cooling technology – but what ...
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While everything seems to be on track with the UK being granted data adequacy by the EU, ...
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As IT has evolved over time, the technology that cools it has had to evolve as well. ...
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More data means more energy consumption. With every search, selfie and online purchase, ...
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Information Technology has never covered a broader variety of tech than it does today, ...
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Despite all the progress made with immersion cooling since the technique was first used ...
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For Managed Service Providers (MSPs), providing an awesome customer experience (your ...
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In 2020 UK businesses had to handle the Covid-19 pandemic and the end of the Brexit ...
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Private cloud migration is a big trend in IT – and one we anticipate will only grow as ...
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At the end of 2020 we conducted a survey with our customers to find out how satisfied ...
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Running a business was never the most straight forward job and doing it all remotely ...
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Relationships in business are an essential asset that will aid the growth and power of ...
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One of the things that we’re all missing as we continue to work from home is the easy ...
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With the digitalisation of the workplace, IT has become the backbone of the modern-day ...
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When was the last time someone leaned over your shoulder and fixed your technical ...
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There is an increasing trend towards the deployment of private cloud – a trend IDC say ...
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Businesses have an increasing number of IT options on the menu, often with vague names. ...
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At the end of 2020, the Brexit transition period ended and with it, the UK’s membership ...
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Office downsizing requires a complete overhaul to a company's work environment, including ...
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With remote working more common than ever, a lot of businesses are wondering what's the ...
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When your existing IT system is becoming slow or unreliable because you've outgrown it, ...
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Since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, we have been having regular discussions with ...
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According to a 2020 survey, 69% of CEOs are planning to downsize their office space. It’s ...
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In a time of economic uncertainty (like the one caused by the Covid-19 pandemic) it's too ...
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As businesses look to cut costs and create a safe, flexible working environment, there is ...
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As a responsible data centre operator, we at 4D have an excellent fire suppression system ...
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Growing your business is exciting - but lots of things can conspire to slow you down - ...
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A core network is the infrastructure that connects together the different networks that ...
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In a previous article ,'The ticking time bomb in your in-office server room' we mentioned ...
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We are committed to continually monitoring and responding where necessary to the ...
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Updated December 2021 Important for 4D Clients: Access by Appointment Only Face Covering ...
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Data centres have always required some kind of cooling system. But as IT systems become ...
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Remote hands is a service some data centres provide alongside colocation where they ...
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DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks totally bypass firewall security and ...
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Avoiding unnecessary risk during a pandemic is the logical position that most companies ...
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Adiabatic cooling is one of the most efficient ways of cooling a data centre, saving ...
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If you’ve got as far as deciding you need a data centre, you are probably starting to ...
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The security risks to the VFX industry are very real, and you need outstanding cyber ...
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High-performance computing (HPC) is already being adopted by companies looking to reach ...
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Soho and the rest of Central London are difficult places to be right now; rent has been ...
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Spending 2020 locked down has made us all familiar with video calling apps. The amount of ...
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Every company needs to backup their system since it’s the only line of defence against ...
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Remote working can provide a lot of benefits for a company – with employees having ...
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As businesses are bracing for the long-term impact of Covid-19 one thing is becoming ...
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Lockdown forced a lot of VFX companies to work from home for the first time, but most ...
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Regardless of the current restrictions around working in the office vs remote working, a ...
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In the last few months we’ve gone from discussing how best to cope with a remote working ...
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Back in 1999 when everyone else in the IT world was worrying about the Millennium Bug, ...
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2020 has brought a lot of changes for a lot of industries, and visual effects companies ...
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Everyone is frustrated by IT problems, whether it’s impacting you directly or causing ...
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The potential of high-performance computing (HPC) is incredible. But all that processing ...
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We at 4D pride ourselves on operating people-focused colocation data centres, providing ...
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Reducing computer system downtime should be a top priority for every company, since your ...
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Hybrid cloud, also sometimes referred to as Hybrid IT, is a sophisticated computer system ...
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HPC comes with particular considerations that distinguish it from regular computing in ...
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Technology is constantly evolving, and with 5G and quantum computing on the horizon, ...
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Covid-19 and lockdown forced companies to make a rapid change to how their staff are ...
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Even for IT experts the future is hard to imagine, remember where technology was in the ...
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Working in data centre sales for eight years, I have often found myself explaining the ...
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Prior to March 2020, the UK’s digital infrastructure was not sponsored by any specific ...
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Have you thought about how the rollout of 5G will affect your business? 5G will change ...
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When you are operating a growing company it's really understandable that your focus would ...
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4D Data Centres is excited to announce our new partnership with the Charity IT ...
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Data centres generally fit into one of two categories: inner-city and edge data centres. ...
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Covid-19 has forced a global lockdown, and it seems that social distancing isn’t going ...
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At the time of writing we’re almost two months into the government lockdown and many ...
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4D’s top priority during the coronavirus pandemic has been to keep our data centre staff ...
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Covid-19 has shown us what world without loo roll would be like, but an even bigger ...
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As the Covid-19 pandemic swept across Europe, many businesses were forced to adapt to a ...
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Remote working before the pandemic was a very different experience to the one many of us ...
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Among the many things we’ve all learnt from this lockdown is the importance of a good ...
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Given that there’s not been a pandemic of this size since the 1918 Spanish flu, no-one ...
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With the Covid-19 pandemic keeping the whole country in lockdown, the internet has become ...
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A company's data and computer systems are its life blood, and that's why determining ...
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Where you store your business's data is critical to its day-to-day operations. Hosting ...
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We’re entering unprecedented times. Just a few weeks ago, the Coronavirus outbreak was ...
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HPC isn’t new, – just as data isn’t new. Scientists have been using both for a long time. ...
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The outbreak of Covid-19 has reminded us that there is a wide variety of reasons why a ...
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As the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, forces businesses to send their staff home to remote ...
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In the first few months of 2020 we’ve had mass flooding across the UK and now COVID-19, ...
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High-performance computing (HPC) has expanded beyond its original borders of laboratories ...
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4D will be regularly updating our business resources page with the latest information and ...
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When it comes to the IT industry - the clue's in the name: they love abbreviations, and ...
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4D have been operating UK-based colocation data centres since 2007, and in that time we ...
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High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are fundamentally ...
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HPC is revolutionising what companies can do with their data analysis. It's being adopted ...
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On Thursday 30th January 4D’s CEO, Jack Bedell-Pearce, was a guest speaker at ...
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Every company will have different data storage needs. Figuring out which is the best ...
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The use of cloud computing has exploded in recent history, and so has the rate of cloud ...
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2019 saw a rise in ransomware attacks, growing concern about the security of mobile ...
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With over 90% of companies using cloud services in some element of their business, it’s ...
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Do cyber security news headlines make you WannaCry? Do you know your Cyborgs from your ...
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Net neutrality is currently in place, for the most part, in Europe. This ensures that ...
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Net neutrality means that internet service providers (ISPs) are not able to vary their ...
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With the rise of big data analytics, machine learning, and AI over the last few years, ...
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Welcome to 4D's guide to server room air conditioning and cooling in a data centre. Even ...
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Welcome to 4D's guide to UPSs. Even if you've never heard of them before, by the end of ...
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4D’s CEO, Jack Bedell-Pearce, gives his guide on the cost of colocation.
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As global use of the internet rises sharply each year, data centres might be the only way ...
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In our live webinar, CTO, David Barker, gave his ultimate guide to firewalls, covering ...
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4D's CTO, David Barker, talks about the different data centre tier levels, what they ...
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Firewalls are an essential part of a company's cyber security, but there are different ...
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Big Data (huge amounts of data that can be analysed to reveal trends and associations) ...
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Over four in ten UK businesses suffered a breach or attack during 2018-19, and 43% of ...
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It’s impossible to ignore the rising threat of cyber-attacks. Over four in ten UK ...
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4D's CTO, David Barker, speaks about the future of DDoS attacks, including the threats we ...
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4D’s CEO, Jack Bedell-Pearce, spoke live at Gatwick Diamond’s Educational Seminain May, ...
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Earlier this year, 4D’s CTO, David Barker, gave this exclusive webinar on what to know, ...
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After being shortlisted for two awards, 4D are delighted to announce winning best ‘Energy ...
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Cryptography fundamentally underpins the modern internet, but developments in quantum ...
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4D's CTO, David Barker, gives his tips on how to protect against DDoS attacks. [View the ...
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DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is an effective and dangerous form of cyber attack ...
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2018 saw the continued trend of major data breaches with big companies such as Facebook, ...
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4D's CEO, Jack Bedell-Pearce, gives his top tips on how to be greener with your IT ...
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Hyper-V is an incredibly valuable resource for creating virtual machines, which can be ...
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What is FM-200 and how does fire suppression work in a data centre? As a professional ...
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Over the last couple of days there has been some coverage in Wired about DNS rebinding ...
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Whether you’re a small business on a winning streak, or a non-profit organisation ...
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Bitcoin, arguably the most well-known cryptocurrency, surpassed a record value of over ...
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Find the best possible data centre partner using our 'Data Centre Checklist' The video ...
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The biggest challenge any business faces is trying to predict the future; knowing what ...
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The last 20 years has seen the cementing of The Information Age, characterised by seismic ...
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