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Interoute, owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform, today announced PCI DSS certification of its Paris Data Centre Operations. Interoute maintains a PCI DSS certification for Data Centre Operations in its Amsterdam, Berlin, Geneva, London and Paris data centres, providing a secure Data Centre environment and managed hosting services to enable customers to meet their e-commerce requirements in compliance to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

For any individual or business looking to set up or move the hosting of their website or IT infrastructure, the number of different options facing them and the jargon used by each hosting provider, can appear bewildering. The idea of managed hosting crops up frequently across the market but unfortunately it has no recognised industry definition...

Information, articles and industry news relating to data centres, hosting and colocation

Information, articles and industry news relating to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and other Unified Communications

Information, articles and industry news relating to Unified Communications (UC), including VoIP and Video Conferencing

VoIP, or Voice over internet Protocol to give it its full title, is a concept at the vanguard of the telecommunications industry which, if you haven't already heard about, will become an increasingly familiar part of all our lives in the near future. But what is it and how can it benefit small business users?

The use of IPsec is pervasive throughout the networking industry. However, many organizations are using IPsec in sub-optimal configurations that result in weaker connection security. Many organizations use IPsec with pre-shared keys and weak encryption algorithms and no form of authentication. Organizations should reconsider how they are using IPsec to ensure it provides maximum security for their organization's private communications.

French publisher Hachette Livre has gained economies of scale and lowered the price of the bandwidth it uses by leasing dark fibre from European cloud services operator Interoute. Hachette Livre's head of ICT, Serge Bellier, said the cost was the same to lease dark fibre and operating it itself or to lease a line run at a limited speed from a major operator.