Women in IT: Addressing the gender imbalance in the technology industry   Over the last few years, there have been lengthy articles, media discussions, debates, roundtables and in company meetings about ways in which to address the gender balance in the technology industry. In a recent article featured in ComputerWorld, it describes the traditional perception

Time is running out: LDeX Connect CTO gives his thoughts on the Internet Routing Table Simon Chamberlain, CTO of LDeX Connect, gives his thoughts on the Internet Routing Table. Recently, a somewhat anticipated problem, somehow managed to (ironically) creep up on the Internet Service Provider community, causing panic amongst many network engineers all over the

An Internship at a Data Centre – My Experiences, Lessons Learnt and Advice Having recently completed an internship at LDeX, I was approached with the interesting idea of writing a blog about it. I was intrigued by the prospect of sharing my experiences with readers who may be interested in a career in a data

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

LDeX Group makes plans to enhance connectivity offering with the addition of a LINX virtual PoP London, United Kingdom – 25 June 2014: LDeX Group has today announced that it plans to enhance its connectivity offering with the addition of a virtual PoP from the London Internet Exchange (LINX). LINX intends to build a transmission

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 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