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In business for nearly 30 years, MR Datentechnik is a leading German provider of IT solutions and managed services. To launch a new S3-compatible storage service, the company implemented Quantum ActiveScale object storage along with Veeam Backup & Replication. By using ActiveScale, the company can offer a resilient, highly scalable service that has the flexibility to support a wide range of S3-enabled apps and workflows.

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Cyber-attacks: Avoiding Black Friday Blackouts with WAN Acceleration

By David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks.

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Data storage for an AI-enabled world

By Dan McConnell, Senior Vice President Product Management and Enablement at Hitachi Vantara.

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The Art of Data Curation – It ain’t what you do, it’s the way you do it

Srini Srinivasan, CTO at Aerospike, says it is not about how much data you have, but what you do with it that matters, and curating your data is the key to scaling well.

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Unlocking cooling efficiency: The next big opportunity for greater data centre sustainability, serviceability, and scalability

By Kelley Mullick PhD, Vice President of Technology Advancement and Alliances, Iceotope.

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How outsourcing Incident Response can ease pressure in-house

By Patrick Wragg, Head of Incident Response at Integrity360.

VIRTUS develops landmark green campus in Berlin Brandenburg region

Christina Mertens, Vice President of Business Development, EMEA, and Darren Watkins, Managing Director, both at VIRTUS Data Centres, discuss the company’s planned 300MW Wustermark Data Centre Campus - poised to become one of Germany's and Europe’s largest scale green data centre campuses and described as a ‘new benchmark for data centre capacity for Cloud and AI in Europe’.

Making the transition to managed services – the major channel driver

Kunal Kaul, Cisco Managing Director, Partner Managed Services & SP RTM, EMEA, discusses a recent Cisco/Canalys report, which reveals that IT Channel partners anticipate significant growth in 2023, with the main driver being managed services. Technology-wise, the cybersecurity focus remains a major driver, alongside managing IT complexity, the AI opportunity and sustainability.

An email security success story

Dan Hoy, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Egress, explains why companies need to understand today’s heightened cyber security risk and implement intelligent email security solutions as part of a defence-in-depth strategy and goes on to outline how Egress, working through its channel partners, is experiencing significant growth thanks to its ‘best-of-breed’ solutions.

Stellium adds OCP Ready certification

Ed Bissell, Sales Director, Stellium Data Centres, discusses the company’s recent OCP Ready Certification, bringing it many new opportunities to work with the Open Compute Project Foundation community. He explains what this means in terms of the data centre design itself, building on Stellium’s major focus on providing a highly connected, sustainable environment for customers.

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Tier IV Onix Data Centre in Ghana connects to Angola Cables Network

The facility currently has 170, 3kW and 5kW racks and a pod of 50 racks available for individual clients wanting to share infrastructure and reduce costs.

Western Digital begins volume shipments of 24TB CMR HDDs

As new applications, use cases and connected devices multiply, Western Digital’s enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDDs) remain critical for helping data center customers design more cost-efficient, scalable and sustainable infrastructure. When combined with the emergence of generative AI and the multitude of innovative applications it is enabling, the demand for high-capacity, low-power and reliable storage is poised to surge.

Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration select SambaNova

LANL adopts SambaNova Suite and expands existing SambaNova DataScale® deployment to run AI workloads for performing national security, science, technology, and engineering projects.

technotrans supplies liquid-cooling systems for high-performance servers in the USA

Major order for series production of energy-efficient cooling systems for high-performance servers.

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