Western Digital has announced two new additions to its broad portfolio of NVMe-based systems, platforms, SSDs and memory drives for data centre and cloud customers. With a full portfolio covering applications from edge-to-core, these additions are the Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN630 NVMe SSD and the Western Digital CL SN720 NVMe SSD. Each leverages the power of […]

Ganesh Bhat, Head of Data Centres, eHosting DataFort, discusses what best practice approach data centre managers should take to managing outdated equipment. Any industrial plant that runs for years lowers the efficiency. Data centres are the IT industry’s power house which is expected to run most efficiently. Data centres support an organisation’s mission critical infrastructure […]

Data volume, mobility and the Internet of Things all require decentralised computing power as an extension to hyperscale data centres. Shibu Vahid, Head of Technical Operations, R&M Middle East, Turkey and Africa talks further about this shift to the edge and how telcos can help prepare for it. The growth in private and business data […]

Batelco, the leading digital solutions provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has announced that it has achieved Tier III Certification of Design and Construction from the Uptime Institute, for its RJR Data Centre. The milestone marks Batelco as the Kingdom’s first commercial data centre receiving both design and construction recognition. The certification is awarded by […]

SBV Services stops millions of attacks while protecting cash in transit, employees, and data with Trend Micro. Overview SBV Services is a leading provider of customised cash services and solutions to reserve and commercial banks, ATMs, and retail environments. Founded in South Africa in 1986, SBV recently expanded its footprint into other African countries and is […]

Cloudian has announced that Systemec, a Managed Services Provider (MSP) specialising in healthcare and logistics in the Netherlands and Germany, has deployed Cloudian’s HyperStore object storage platform to address the backup challenges of growing data volumes. Cloudian enables Systemec to protect data from multiple applications, prevent the scheduling problems it previously faced and achieve increased […]

As more and more companies are having to carefully decide where to store their data, especially with the uncertainty of Brexit, Germany is seemingly dominating the data centre market. Intelligent CIO Europe hears from Philip van der Wilt, SVP, GM EMEA, ServiceNow, on why the company chose to further expand business into the country. ServiceNow […]

Iskandar Najmuddin, Specialist Architect at Rackspace, discusses how container adoption could plug the enterprise cloud skills gap. Businesses increasingly rely on complex technologies to power their day-to-day business operations. These complex solutions can require highly skilled and supportive expertise, forcing many organisations to spend large amounts of time and effort on the maintenance of basic […]

Ruckus Networks, an ARRIS company, has announced the availability of its new ICX 7850 switch: an edge-to-core solution for the next decade of enterprise networking. Ruckus’ stackable ICX 7850 delivers high-density aggregation for 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE and 100GbE using existing customer investment in fibre cabling, making it suitable for large, secure enterprise edge networks in education, […]

EkkoSense’s Dr Stu Redshaw, explains why it’s time for data centre operations to ditch their spreadsheets and start paying attention to much more granular, real-time thermal and power measurements. Ask any operations team if their data centre rooms are fully performance-optimised and the answer will invariably be yes. However, despite the best efforts of FM […]