Intelligent Data Centres Issue 08 | Page 6

NEWS Cyxtera Technologies’ AppGate solution achieves Common Criteria Certification yxtera Technologies, the secure infrastructure company, has announced that AppGate SDP, a leading software-defined perimeter (SDP) solution for accelerating the journey to zero trust, has achieved Common Criteria Certification. C AppGate SDP is the first SDP solution to achieve this certification, indicating it meets stringent requirements for operating in security-sensitive or critical systems. Common Criteria is recognised by 30 nations and was developed by the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Although it is a government-driven certification, it is recognised as important to any business or organisation looking to leverage trusted security software solutions that are designed with compliance and performance in mind. Products evaluated against a Common Criteria standard exhibit a clear chain of evidence that the process of specification, implementation and evaluation has been conducted in a rigorous and standard manner. AppGate SDP was evaluated against and achieved the following certification: Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2+. The + in this evaluation indicates the inclusion of network and firewall- applicable protection profile elements in the testing and evaluation criteria. The evaluation of AppGate SDP was conducted by a third-party auditor authorised by the Common Criteria consortium. Nelson Fonseca, President and COO of Cyxtera, said: “Achieving certification provides reassurance to organisations around the world that their security systems are in the most capable hands.” 6 Issue 08 Servers.com to provide worldwide infrastructure for Gameye lobal hosting platform Servers.com has announced that Gameye has selected the company as a service partner of choice to power the future of online multiplayer games. G Gameye focuses on delivering scalable multiplayer infrastructure for multiplayer games. It is a new entrant in the managed game server hosting space and requires a reliable supply chain to prepare for global growth to support its quickly expanding client base. Servers.com will allow Gameye to spin up capacity quickly around the world, relying less on the more expensive cloud platforms like AWS, GCP and Azure. It will also receive high touch account support team which allows it to offer more services than it would on its own. Servers.com serves customers across the globe, in a variety of industries. Customers choose Servers.com because of its industry leading 40-minute provisioning time for bare-metal servers in data centres geographically distributed around the world, which gives players and end users a low latency, high quality experience. “Game studios want the best for their gamers and by adding Servers. com’s capacity to our worldwide infrastructure, those studios now have an even bigger reach. Our technology makes sure it deploys game sessions in the most cost-effective way, whilst maintaining the best player experience,” said Sebastiaan Heijne, CEO Gameye. www.intelligentdatacentres.com