If you recall, in April 2016, the EU passed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will be implemented next year, May 25th 2018, in all EU member states. GDPR makes employee privacy protection a legal requirement and a comprehensive and well-structured enterprise mobility management (EMM) program will be an important component of an enterprise's GDPR compliance framework. An enterprise that does not use EMM effectively will find it challenging to justify to authorities why it did not adopt state-of-the-art technical measures, as required by Article 32, to mitigate the risk of data loss. So what does this mean for companies with potentially hundreds or thousands of mobile devices including smart phones and tablets, and even desktops to manage? In order to comply, organisations need to implement strong future-proofing policies, procedures and processes to protect themselves. They face not only the risk of heavy fines but also added risks of reputational...

Modular, Policy Defined Infrastructure   The flexibility that the new breed of data centre technologies offers is game changing. Designed and implemented intelligently they deliver on the promise of an application centric foundation which scales out and in as business requirements demand, and where policy is abstracted from the complexities of the underlying technology. The EthoSystem modular data centre simplifies all stages of the project lifecycle, from cost/benefit analysis through to design, implementation, integration, operation, and support. Best of breed software defined infrastructure available as software only, or provided as integrated turnkey appliances including holistic, global support with options for 24x7x365 cover. The EthoSystem is the culmination of many months of software and hardware testing, validation, integration and development; we’ve done the work so you don’t have to. Modular capabilities include turn-key private cloud and SDDC, hyper-converged infrastructure, scale-out software defined storage, software defined networking and monitoring, policy based hybrid cloud...

Ethos Technology, a leading value-added distributor specialising in converged technologies throughout the United Kingdom and Europe, has signed a new distribution agreement that adds Big Switch’s data centre networking and monitoring solutions, Big Cloud Fabric (BCF) and Big Monitoring Fabric (BMF) to its portfolio. Through this partnership, Ethos will distribute both Big Monitoring Fabric (BMF) and Big Cloud Fabric (BCF) products. By combining open networking hardware, with an intelligent SDN-based data centre switching fabric, Big Switch is bringing unmatched intelligence, agility, and flexibility to data centres that enable network owners to quickly deploy, automate, scale-out, and monitor and secure their networks, while optimising OpEx and CapEx. ”Our vision is to bring transformative technologies to the UK and Europe, offering businesses of all sizes the type of optimisation and efficiency that Google, Facebook and Amazon use in their infrastructures,” says Ethos CEO, Omar Galbraith. “Our CTO, Adam Worthington, was a network architecture...

Winner of the Innovation & Creativity Award sponsored by Begbroke Science Park “Ethos Technology are elated to be chosen as winners of the Cherwell Business Awards Innovation & Creativity award. To be successful in such a strong category, and for Ethos to be recognised by Cherwell Business Awards experienced and respected team of business leaders is amazing. It has given us great confidence and reinforced our motivation to keep thinking outside the box, and press on with our ambitious growth plans...." Read the full story   For more information contact us . Also published here... The Oxford Times   Ellacotts   This is Oxfordshire  

HPE today announced the acquisition of SimpliVity for $650m Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) acquisition of SimpliVity has validated the hyper-converged market, according to channel onlookers. HPE today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement... Read the full story   For more information contact us .