Alkira, a network cloud pioneer, has announced the expansion of its on-demand Cloud Network-as-a-Service (CNaaS) to extend cloud connectivity to any network. The industry’s first Cloud Backbone-as-a-Service (CBaaS) connects core data centres to edge or remote sites worldwide and to any multi-cloud, in minutes and hours compared to six to 18 months. The Alkira Cloud […]
Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, has announced that it has raised US$1.25 billion in incremental equity capital from its existing investors, led by Digital Colony. This funding will be used to fuel ongoing expansion and development across North America and Europe. “Hyperscale data centre market demand remains strong, […]
As an increase in data volume and new services dominates data centre growth and development, Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM) needed to update its data centre setup in order to meet future requirements. It therefore embarked on a digitalisation journey with Huawei. The Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM) chose to partner with Huawei, a company […]
IT solutions specialist, TechBuyer, prides itself on raising awareness on the importance of reusing technology to make for a more sustainable world. Charlie Collett, Sustainable IT Communications / Marketing – TechBuyer, explores some of the benefits of using remanufactured equipment and discusses why it is the way forward. With long manufacturing delays on supplies of […]
Aruba S.p.A., one of the largest Italian cloud providers and a leader in data centre services, web hosting, email, PEC and domain registration, formalises its status as a Day-1 Member of the GAIA-X project. With the aim of making a strong contribution to the development of a secure, reliable and certified network infrastructure for sharing […]
Apstra, a pioneer of Intent-Based Networking (IBN) and multinational software company, has updated its industry-leading data centre network automation, validation and analytics software with significant SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) operational and feature enhancements. The software enhancements eliminate the deployment complexities and operational challenges that were barriers to entry for SONiC. Apstra […]
Improving the end-user experience while generating company efficiency should always be a top priority for IT business leaders. Indra Zulardi, Infrastructure Network, System and Virtualisation Specialist, Royal Court in the Kingdom of Bahrain, discusses the benefits of using Nutanix’s solution and tells us why the sky’s the limit in terms of what the company can […]
The Iceotope, Avnet and Schneider Electric partnership to jointly develop innovative, chassis-level immersion cooled data centre solutions has been joined by Lenovo to deploy its ThinkSystem SR670 servers in a highly scalable, GPU-rich, liquid-cooled Micro Data Centre solution. Sealed at chassis level, the new solution enables Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and High Performance […]
The rise of data applications has impacted storage technology and accelerated unified fast file and object (UFFO). Wes van den Berg, VP & GM, Pure Storage UKI, tells us why the emergence of UFFO is fundamental and why it is expected to power the innovation of tomorrow. Looking back, there are many significant milestones in […]
Edge Computing has become increasingly popular as business leaders look to modernise their network infrastructure, resulting in a spike in demand for data centres across the globe. Jürgen Hatheier, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA at Ciena, says that in the next five years, we will see tens of thousands of additional scaled-down data centres at the […]
