Cyber and resilience
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Britain’s cyber bill meets a thin skills bench
The UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will extend security duties to data centres and managed service providers, while a shortage of experienced personnel threatens to constrain implementation.
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London–Brussels route skirts Europe’s crowded paths
RETN has opened an optical route between London and Brussels using new Rotterdam–Brussels fibre, a separate continental landing point, and a London path designed to avoid the Docklands corridor.
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Dutch outage pulls power and cooling into one failure
A utility power failure in Google Cloud’s Dutch region developed into a cooling loss and protective workload shutdowns, disrupting bare-metal, VMware, and managed storage services for more than 12 hours.
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$5bn cover arrives for gigawatt risk
Aon has expanded its data centre lifecycle insurance programme to $5 billion as larger campuses concentrate construction, equipment, cyber, cargo, and interruption exposure.
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Telxius sale puts Europe’s cable gateways in play
Telefónica and Pontegadea are reported to have reopened a sale of Telxius, placing transatlantic cable routes, landing stations, and connected data centre assets on the market.
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Datadog brings observability data closer to UK workloads
Datadog adds UK hosting for observability and security telemetry data.
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Airbus puts sovereign cloud on the flight path
Airbus selects Scaleway for sensitive European industrial cloud workloads.
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Spain becomes A1 Digital’s sovereign foothold
A1 Digital plans to deploy locally hosted Exoscale infrastructure in Spain, initially using third-party data centre capacity while it builds a regional operation.
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Security by design moves to the fence line
The Security Industry Association has published 12 data centre security principles covering design, access, operations, and resilience as facilities face rising critical infrastructure scrutiny.
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Sovereign cloud finds a Geneva anchor
nLighten and Arqit have tested a model that anchors data and cryptographic controls in a Geneva data centre while workloads use public cloud resources.