Stephen Beard, Global Head of Data Centres, Knight Frank, discusses how real estate and data centres marry up, data centre growth in the UK market compared to the global picture and why Manchester should be a top priority for data centre investment. What does your role entail and can you give an overview of what a […]
To succeed in its mission of unlocking the potential of rural communities, Gigaclear collaborated with Telehouse. Gabriel Yepes, Head of Networks, Gigaclear, discusses its need to establish a presence in a well-connected data centre in London to offer exceptionally fast speeds and reliable full fibre broadband to rural homes and businesses. We learn how the […]
With the goal to champion and reimagine the health and well-being of every community in America, Walgreens uses BMC Software’s solutions to deliver on this. Here, Tim Perkins, Director of IT, Walgreens Boots Alliance, talks to me about why it chose to work with BMC, some of the challenges the organisation faced ahead of the […]
Resilience is key when managing the pressures placed on the network due to Digital Transformation demands. Intelligent Data Centres’ Alix Pressley talks to Yarob Sakhnini – VP, Emerging Markets, EMEA at Juniper Networks, to hear how Juniper Apstra, a turnkey, multi-vendor automation solution, allows customers to design, build, deploy and operate data centre networks from a single […]
SONDA, a major integrator of technology solutions in Latin America, has updated its infrastructure with Dell Technologies to enhance its offer of solutions and services aimed at solving the transformation and digitization needs of organizations throughout the region. For more than four decades, SONDA has been focused on transforming and making available technological solutions and […]
Durham University, one of the UK’s leading HPC research facilities, has chosen 232 nodes of its COSMA7 DiRAC system for a test deployment of a new Rockport switchless network architecture which, based on codes, is seeing a performance improvement over InfiniBand. The Arepo cosmology code saw up to 28% performance improvement over a comparable EDR […]
Sapporo’s use of Nutanix Cloud Clusters to establish hybrid cloud environment follows the modernization of its data center using Nutanix’s hyper-converged infrastructure solution. Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, and its partner iret, have announced that the City of Sapporo has deployed Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Amazon Web Services and selected Nutanix Flow […]
Virtual Data Corp (VDC), a Canadian managed services and hosting provider, switched to Infinidat, bypassing the solid state array technology it was originally expecting to invest in, and achieved many benefits. These included the ability to significantly differentiate its offering as a hosting provider, deliver a much higher value level of customer service and benefit […]
The University of Southampton wanted to enable high power computing (HPC) performance alongside more repetitive processing tasks, while maintaining maximum power control and efficiency across these varied load profiles. Mike Powell, Data Centre Manager at the university discusses how Vertiv offered an easily deployable, enterprise-class solution which met the institution’s requirements, meaning it is able […]
Haitham Hussien, Senior Associate ELV/ICT Engineer, AE7, discusses his involvement in some major projects, how sustainability plays a part in the design and operation of a data centre compared to some years ago, and how he works to ensure quality and construction of facility design standards. Can you tell us how you work with clients […]
