Gartner recommends limiting data centres to two per continent

Most global organisations have too many data centres in too many countries, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that in order for businesses to save costs and optimise service delivery, they need a twin data centre topology for each continent of major business activity.

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Energy-efficient and safe environment for Switzerland’s fastest supercomputer

Siemens has supplied the new Swiss National Supercomputing Center (Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico, CSCS) with state-of-the-art technology capable of managing and controlling its building automation, safety and security systems. The center houses the fastest computers in the country and facilitates world-class scientific research by pioneering, operating and supporting leading-edge supercomputing technologies.

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Highly Commended Supplier of the Year

Leading global facilities management provider Norland has awarded trusted supplier 8 Solutions, a specialist at increasing efficiency and mitigating against the risk of down-time in critical facilities, its ‘Highly Commended Supplier of the Year’ award. The two companies have been working in partnership for over 10 years.

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Four new FlexPods

Cisco and NetApp are introducing four new FlexPod capabilities with additional features to simplify the cloud and offer greater business continuity. These FlexPod solutions have been designed to enable IT and service providers to become cloud enabled more easily. FlexPod provides a highly virtualized infrastructure that can be easily automated. Companies like Cirrity and Virtustream are taking advantage of FlexPod to help advance their cloud offering to their customers.

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Proact expands in Estonia

Proact IT Group AB has through Proact Estonia AS signed a contract to acquire a business line from Elion Ettevõtted AS containing IT infrastructure solutions from Oracle, Hitachi Data systems, Quantum and Symantec.

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Splunk Inc. has announced the general availability (GA) of the latest version of the Splunk App for...
By Roger Keenan, managing director of London data centre, City Lifeline.
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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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