Ratheniska in Laois has been picked as the pilot point for SIRO’s rural broadband programme, with 17 premises connected to the network. Ratheniska is, of course, currently hosting the National Ploughing Championships so, in purely promotional terms, SIRO could not…
Following the first anniversary of the publication of ISO 27018 – an international privacy standard governing the processing of personal data in the cloud — Mason Hayes & Curran looks at how successful the new standard has been and the…
Data Centre thermal risk experts at EkkoSense are offering a free, no obligation, initial audit service to help Data Centre and IT Managers assess the threat of outages caused by thermal issues to their Data Centre – and understand the…
The Digital Hub’s newly renovated Grainstore was officially opened today following a €4m refurbishment of the historic Dublin 8 building. Now consisting of seven new offices (on the back of five new businesses joining the fold recently) The Grainstore was…
The company also announced that it’s rolling out home broadband services with download speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second in 15 communities around the country. 23,000 premises will have access to the eir ‘Fibre Extreme’ product immediately, which…
If a new report from Juniper Research is accurate, the amount of devices connected online with 5G speeds will hit 240m by 2025, but only 3pc of the world will actually have access to it. While 4G speeds are still…
Dell is attempting to make a massive push into the Chinese market after announcing that it intends to pump US$125bn into the country over the next five years. The announcement was made by none other than Dell’s chief executive, Michael…
In a deal very similar to that with IBM last year, Apple has forged a new hardware partnership with Cisco that will create a fast lane for iOS devices and apps into the enterprise space. The deal will see Cisco…
Wireless and fibre broadband telco AirSpeed Telecom has signed a three-year contract worth €250,000 to install a high-performance MPLS network at legal firm Willam Fry’s new Grand Canal Square headquarters. William Fry employs 440 people and is planning to create…
Quadplay player Eircom has reported its first year-on-year growth in seven years, with revenues up 5pc to €325m. The company is also planning to rebrand for the first time in 16 years to reflect its growing ambitions as a fibre…
