Certified Data Centre Professional COURSE SNEAK PEEK

In this short interactive webinar, you will get a sneak peek into the world-class CDCP course. Find out why the CDCP is the most attended course by data centre professionals from all over the world.

The CDCP is a must-have for anyone working in and around the data centre industry, whether a vendor/supplier, designer/builder, data centre owner/operator, those involved in daily operations of a data centre or a data centre user/customer. CDCP provides you with the knowledge of all aspects of the data centre and will enable you to talk confidently about the data centre with your colleagues, vendors, customers or your superiors. CDCP certification is a must have for your career in the growing data centre industry.

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Speaker: Otto de Roo

Senior Data Centre Consultant & Trainer, EPI

Otto has over 25 years of experience in the ICT and mission critical data centre industry. He had the experience managing 13 mission critical data centres in Europe on all aspects such as daily operations, Green initiatives and strategic level projects.

Otto has been involved in many new-build data centres, deploying new technologies which included Kyoto cooling and Hypoxic-based fire prevention. He had also initiated various data centre renovation and migration projects. One of his main goals when running his data centre operations was a tight security policy. All his data centres complied with ISO 27001 and the PCI DSS standard, and a number of his data centres also complied with SAS 70. He had introduced an environmental approach to realise a reduction of 20%-30% in power consumption. Otto had set up and trained data centre staff to form a lean but well-oiled team to ensure a maximum operational efficiency with a Rated-4 level availability.

He was awarded a “1000 days without down time” certificate by one of the largest oil companies in the world. He is a well sought after speaker in the industry.

Using OPENDNS on a Mikrotik

At the office we use a Mikrotik which is connected via fibre to Cool Ideas. We use OpenDNS as a Information Security tool. It prevents ransomware and bots from becoming major incidents within the office.

The router is scheduled to do a daily update via script of the OpenDNS settings. Below is the example:

:local opendnsuser "user@domain.co.za";
:local opendnspass "itsprivate";
:local opendnshost "office";

:log info "OpenDNS Update";
:local url "https://updates.opendns.com/nic/update";
/tool fetch url=($url . "\3Fhostname=$opendnshost") user=("$opendnsuser") password=("$opendnspass") mode=https dst-path=opendnsupdate.txt
:local opendnsresult [/file get opendnsupdate.txt contents];
:log info "OpenDNS: Host $opendnshost - $opendnsresult";

The Hours of WannaCry from the Cisco Umbrella Blog

In the span of just 10 days, two large-scale, wormable attacks grabbed international headlines. First, a phishing campaign posing as a Google Docs sharing request gained access to Google accounts then spread across its victim’s contacts, and now, a ransomware campaign with a bite, named WannaCry, autonomously infected vulnerable systems leveraging an exploit leaked on the internet. In the early minutes of the attack, we worked with our Talos counterparts to analyse the behaviour of WannaCry and protect our customers. We were also particularly proud to see that our Investigate product helped MalwareTech reduce WannaCry’s impact. In this post, we hope to give you a retrospective analysis of what we’ve observed during the first critical hours of the event.
Read more here.

PUE: to compare is human – to improve is divine (part of the DS PUE series of articles)

Yes, I know – it’s an inadequate distortion of an old, clichéd proverb. Yet, I say this too often in client meetings and peer discussions, “Don’t compare the PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of your data centre to that of another because it’s a pointless exercise. - Lee Smith Read the article here about Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) in data centres on our website.

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