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Art pushes technology: How VAST Data’s solutions accelerate Pixar’s cinematic magic

Pixar’s innovative productions have redefined the boundaries of technology integration in visual storytelling. Its collaboration with VAST has set the foundation for AI-powered cinematography while allowing quick adaptation to evolving artistic needs. Eric Bermender, Head of Data Center and IT Infrastructure, Pixar, discusses the data centre’s capacity for artistic growth. VAST Data, a data platform company for […]


Advanced cooling advances science: One university’s immersion-cooled, supercomputing journey

Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) needed to upgrade its powerful Lonestar5 supercomputer to keep up with its several thousand projects and continue pushing the boundaries of supercomputing. The organisation realised immersion cooling was the only practical way forward. Tommy Minyard, Ph.D., TACC’s Director of Advanced Computing Systems, explains how GRC’s liquid immersion cooling solution addressed […]


Next-gen HPC delivers sustainability, efficiency and lower TCO for BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas, atNorth and Dell Technologies have collaborated in order to deploy HPC with 50% less energy usage, 85% less CO2 output and lower TCO. To deliver more value to its customers and fuel emerging HPC needs, BNP Paribas CIB required exponential infrastructure growth. Ricardo Jantarada, Global Head of Telecom & Datacenter at BNP Paribas […]


Spectra Logic deploys 18-frame tape library at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, has announced that the company deployed an 18-frame Spectra TFinity ExaScale Tape Library with LTO-9 tape drives and media at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA. SLAC develops and implements some of the world’s most advanced scientific tools for exploring how the universe works at the biggest, smallest and […]


Three unlocks 12.5% data centre cooling energy reduction in under 10 weeks with EkkoSense

Rapid thermal optimisation using EkkoSoft Critical AI-powered software helps Three’s data centre team to meet corporate demand for 5% total energy saving across its legacy sites. Shamim Mohamed, Data Centre Operations and Service Readiness Manager, Three; Derval O’Brien, Sustainability Manager, Three UK&I; and Dean Boyle, CEO, EkkoSense, discuss how this was achieved and the benefits of […]


Vodafone and Nokia make Msheireb Downtown in Doha, first gigacity in Middle East

Vodafone Qatar has announced that, in collaboration with Nokia, it has powered Msheireb Smart City with cutting-edge fibre technology that delivers hyper speeds of up to 25 Gbps and will extend the collaboration to demonstrate speeds of up to 100 Gbps, using a Nokia Bell Labs prototype in the near future. With the roll-out of […]


Ireland’s largest university upgrades data centre cooling system with Schneider

The Future Campus project at University College Dublin (UCD) called for space utilised by facility plant and equipment to be given up for development to support the student population. Total Power Solutions, an Elite Partner to Schneider Electric, worked with UCD’s IT Services organisation to upgrade its primary data centre cooling system, to provide greater […]


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 […]


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