Engaging the B2B audience: Finding new ways to tell the LDeX brand story Finding new ways to delight, excite, engage and connect with existing and potential customers is something which I feel very passionately about and a challenge which the team at LDeX embraces on a daily basis. In today’s fast paced digitally connected world,

As part of the LDeX media insights series, David Sidebottom, Senior Analyst: Entertainment Content at Futuresource Consulting shares his insights about digital ownership and the growth of premium streaming. Ownership to access and the growth of Premium Streaming In an increasingly digital world, it may surprise you that consumers spent almost $25 billion on DVD

Disaster Recovery Q & A with Patrick Doyle, Director at LDeX Patrick Doyle, COO at London based colocation and network connectivity provider LDeX, shares his thoughts about why organisations should opt for colocation over keeping their disaster recovery in-house for business continuity purposes. First of all, what do you see as the main reasons for

Working in a Datacentre – from an intern’s perspective  For any graduate looking to attain employment and succeed in the workplace, it is expected that an internship is completed in order to understand the main drivers of how a  business operates as well as gaining an insight into what makes the industry tick and how

Multi skilling in the Data Centre Industry The ‘skills gap’ has unfortunately become synonymous with the technology industry with 2.5 million IT jobs expected to go unfulfilled by 2020 according to a recent infographic from IT recruitment firm SmartSource. For clients dependent on having low latency resilient connectivity to their servers, infrastructure and systems at

The LDeX Guide to DDoS Mitigation for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) In recent weeks, we have seen a number of security issues hitting the headlines; including the Heartbleed security bug and the NTP Amplification Distributed Denial of Service attack bringing DDoS firmly back onto the security agenda again for many ISPs around the world. DDoS

The LDeX Guide to Physical Security in the Data Centre In the April edition of Data Centre Solutions, LDeX Group COO Patrick Doyle spoke about physical security in the data centre and the policy measures which need to be implemented to protect your company’s infrastructure and servers. Here’s what he had to say… Data Centre

Access to Data Centres: more than just an afterthought in times of crisis We are all hoping that the severe floods experienced recently in parts of the UK are now behind us. However damaging they may have been to the public and businesses alike, they should have acted as a wake up call for business

A guide to data centre metrics and standards for start-ups and SMBs Having made that choice to co-locate your organisation’s servers and infrastructure to a trusted data centre provider, companies need to be able to understand the key metrics and standards which they should use to evaluate and benchmark each data centre operator against. With

The LDeX guide to streaming satellite feeds over IP Since launching our first ever data centre company UK Grid back in 2004, the management team at LDeX has been involved with colocation clients that stream satellite feeds over IP. Although the Manchester based company was acquired in 2011, the management team went on to create