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Proximity meets requirements for Edge-based immersive VR and AR experiences

The GRID Factory needed to offer its client a new approach for delivering highly accurate 3D city models and found the solution in Proximity’s Edge 7, 89,000 sqft. Edge data centre in Swindon. Ben Jones, Founder and CTO of The GRID Factory, outlines some of the benefits of the project and the ways in which […]


Knight Frank continues to invest in thriving data centre market

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 […]


Gigaclear unlocks potential of rural communities with Telehouse

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 […]


JM Finn lowers operational costs and reduces carbon footprint by migrating legacy data centres to Nutanix Cloud Platform

Leading UK investment management company, JM Finn, achieved tangible benefits – accelerated performance; operational savings; and improved efficiency – after migrating its legacy data centres to Nutanix Cloud Platform. Jon Cosson, Head of IT and CISO at JM Finn, offers insight into how this took place and the results. Business need With a clear focus […]


EIDF enables world-leading data-driven innovation with storage solution from Spectra Logic

Mark Parsons, Director of EPCC at The University of Edinburgh, discusses how with the help of Spectra Logic it is creating what it believes is the only facility of its kind in Europe focused on delivering data-driven regional growth. Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, has announced that its […]


Walgreens champions healthy success with BMC Software

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 […]


Building a network fit for the future

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 […]


Infrastructure solutions that meet the demands of digital organizations

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 selects Rockport Switchless Network for breakthrough performance

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 City selects Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS

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 […]


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