NEWS
Over 70 % of organisations experienced IT disruption in the last 12 months
60 % of businesses struggled to return to normal operations after a major resilience disruption, while 58 % admitted to suffering substantial financial losses.
• Confidence crisis in risk recovery: Over half of respondents report only low or medium confidence in handling major risks like cybersecurity breaches( 54 %), data centre outages( 61 %), or unauthorised physical access( 62 %).
According to the latest research commissioned by Asanti, one of the UK’ s leading colocation data centre providers, 72 % of senior IT decision makers reported experiencing significant disruption or downtime in the past year due to IT resilience issues, with only 31 % expressing extreme confidence in their current disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
Key highlights from the study include:
• Gaps in recovery preparedness: Only 56 % of organisations surveyed have fully defined and regularly tested Recovery Time Objectives( RTOs) and just 36 % say the same for Recovery Point Objectives( RPOs).
• Significant operational fallout:
Stewart Laing, CEO of Asanti, said:“ This research makes clear that real resilience isn’ t about where your systems live – it’ s about how well you’ ve prepared to keep them running. Without clearly defined recovery objectives, rigorous testing and a culture of proactive risk management, even the most advanced infrastructure can fail. Business leaders must move beyond surface-level confidence and embed resilience into every layer of operations.”
GNM expands core network with 400G infrastructure upgrade in Sofia
GNM has completed the modernisation of its point of presence in Sofia, deploying the Arista 7800R3 – a modular, carriergrade platform with native 400G capability. The upgrade is part of GNM’ s ongoing strategy to strengthen its optical backbone and meet increasing interconnection demands across South-Eastern Europe.
The Sofia node now plays a key role in supporting high-throughput transit traffic from the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East and the Caucasus. With two fully independent DWDM paths – routed via Belgrade and a diverse route through Romania – the site has been engineered to provide path diversity, automated failover, and consistent low-latency performance. It is fully integrated into GNM’ s meshed DWDM backbone, which provides onward connectivity to major European hubs including Bratislava, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Vienna, Prague, Warsaw and Stockholm.
“ The Sofia upgrade is an important step in the ongoing development of GNM’ s core infrastructure in the region. One of the first customers to use the new platform was a European network operator that provisioned a 100G DWDM service over both available paths, along with a GNM-IX peering connection. The deployment delivered a measurable reduction in latency to Frankfurt, around 18 % and significantly improved recovery times during incidents. It’ s a clear example of how infrastructure investment directly enhances service performance for our clients,” said Alex Surkov, Head of Development at GNM.
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