80 per cent of data centres still using physical security to protect virtualised estate

Charlee Gothard
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And only a fifth of those are taking steps to phase it out

Eighty per cent of organisations still employ software and services designed to protect physical servers despite having moved to a virtual server estate, Computing research has revealed. The res...

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