Patrick Lastennet, Director of Marketing and Business at Interxion, A Digital Realty Company, examines the roadblocks facing the acceleration of AI innovation. He says it is important to develop a strong infrastructure strategy for AI deployments from the start. The hunger for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing. Companies in every industry are exploring ways that […]
A modern data centre must provide the agility, security and scalability needed to power growth and innovation. Ian Jansen Van Rensburg, Senior Systems Engineer and Lead Technologist at VMware Africa, explains why cloud and software vendors are critically important to help build data centres for the future. Digital Transformation is disrupting the fundamentals of doing […]
Andrew Brinded, Vice President and Sales Chief Operating Officer, Nutanix, says cloud provides the enabling deployment model for the times in which we live and its impact is set to grow. In 1991, the renowned technology journalist Stewart Alsop made a famously wrong forecast. “I predict that the last mainframe will be unplugged on March […]
As technology continues to evolve, so too does the infrastructure that supports it. Jon Barker, Technical Manager, Chatsworth Products (CPI), talks us through the new demands on modern data centres and explains how CPI solutions are helping organisations to meet these requirements. How and why has the demand on data centres changed? In the past, […]
The era of 5G has arrived in the MENA region, with 2020 set to be the launchpad to a ‘more connected’ future. Femi Oshiga, VP Sales, Service Providers, MEA, CommScope, tells Intelligent CIO’s Jess Phillips why wireless operators will need to make some critical decisions during the year ahead, as well as how CommScope is […]
Genetec is holding a three-day digital conference between April 20 and April 22 to connect physical security professionals from around the world directly to Genetec experts and industry leaders. The agenda for Genetec Connect’DX includes sessions on key trends and new technology; keynotes from industry leaders including Pierre Racz, Genetec President; Genetec product demos and […]
Mark Cleary, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner, supports the idea of turning digital disruption into infrastructure-led disruption as this leads to business value. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders have a unique opportunity in deciding what role they will play when Digital Transformation takes place within the context of technology disruption: Move to the forefront of infrastructure-led […]
Paul Morgan, Business Unit Lead – Data, Planning and Analytics at Altron Karabina, unpacks the business benefits of including data warehousing platforms in the transition to the cloud. The cloud journey of most local companies has centred around the migration of on-premise virtual environments. But with the local Microsoft Azure data centres approaching their one-year […]
Last November, BRE Global announced the release of the Data Centre Annex Pilot which is to be used alongside the BREEAM New Construction International manual. The Annex provides data centre buildings with the ability to assess and improve their sustainability and environmental performance against the current BREEAM New Construction International manual for new-build projects around […]
Eran Brown, EMEA CTO, Infinidat, gives his predictions for data storage for 2020. Last year saw significant changes in the cloud and nothing tells the story better than a quick straw poll survey. At every event I spoke at in the last year, across Europe, I asked these questions: Do you see your business units […]
