In my last post, I listed two of the six ways the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can affect even non-EU enterprises—by …
Reaching beyond the EU; and
Redefining personal and sensitive data.Here are four more reasons you can’t afford to ignore GDPR:
Have your clients been asking about GDPR ? Due to take effect on May 25, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation may impact a portion of your clients, not least due to the intensifying focus on the use of personally identifiable information. Although GDPR applies only to EU citizens, it’s influencing even US companies to alter their terms of service, rewrite contracts, and provide new tools to handle “personal data.” I offer six reasons why some of your clients may find it less risky to assume GDPR does affect their business than to assume it does not. This is especially true if their enterprise handles personal data :
I’m here to ping you about GDPR .
That’s the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation — due to take effect on May 25. If this sounds like just another set of data privacy rules that someone else, not you, has to worry about — don’t be fooled.
Thinking about renting space in a co-location facility?
I suggest you visit any site you’re considering with the usual due-diligence checklist that addresses matters of security, compliance, environmental risks, power redundancy, and networking capabilities.
This checklist will get you only so far, however. You’ll need to keep a couple of other co-location considerations front-of-mind, too
The right services provider can ease the burdens of sustaining your network performance. But take care in choosing one. You can start by asking and answering whether the services provider you’re considering can…
1 Scale in tandem with your business?
Meeting both your current and (often unexpected) future needs requires a services provider that’s been successful at combining breadth and depth of capabilities — cloud as well as managed services; data centers, co-location, and network operations centers; vendor-neutral needs assessments; and diverse professional services.
For your clients to attain the network performance their enterprises need, point them to these nine best practices:
1 Plan for continued bandwidth growth
Your clients will need to prepare for 5G mobility, the internet of things (IoT), video conferencing, collaboration tools, etc. — all of which will accelerate bandwidth demand.
