Siemon adds cold aisle containment to its data centre ecosystem

Siemon has launched a new cold aisle containment system to support passive cooling in the data centre. Containment systems can reduce cooling power costs by improving energy efficiency whilst enabling growth in environments constrained by perimeter cooling capacity.

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Optimisation hampered by lack of centralised monitoring and managment

Many data centres could be failing to optimise performance by failing to centralise monitoring, management and intelligent capacity planning of critical systems according to a recent survey from design, build and management specialist Keysource. It found that whilst almost three quarters of decision makers and influencers are now familiar with Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) there is still a long way to go before the adoption of this integrated approach to management and monitoring...

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MapR Technologies and VMware team up

MapR Technologies, Inc. and VMware have announced that MapR’s Distribution for Apache Hadoop is now certified for VMware vSphere®. Through the VMware Ready™ program, the two companies conducted a detailed validation process, which now enables joint customers to easily deploy and run the MapR Distribution for Hadoop on VMware vSphere and receive commercial support.

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KEMP announces first load balancer and ADC to run natively within Cisco UCS

Cisco IVT Certified LoadMaster operating system for Unified Computing System (UCS) enhances enterprise application performance and availability.

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NorCom selects MapR as underlying technology for Big Data ready enterprise collaboration platform

NorCom, an innovative and highly respected German system developer, has selected the MapR Big Data platform as the core data and storage technology for its new Eagle document-based collaboration system.

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New Statesman produces a series of special reports about data centres

In collaboration with Data Centre Alliance the award winning current affairs and politics weekly magazine, the New Statesman will be publishing a series of special reports looking at data centres and cloud computing investigating the key issues that are affecting this growing industry.

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Security dominates the list of business priorities despite 46% experiencing data loss from downtime...
As part of its campaign to address the ongoing skills shortage in the data centre industry,...
Red Hat has introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, the first minor release of Red Hat Enterprise...
Panduit presents the new series of Power over Ethernet extenders increasing Ethernet signal and PoE...
The latest BCS Breakfast Club meeting was held in conjunction with AVK-SEG at The Ned in the City...
AFA Insurance has selected Proact to deliver a new IT infrastructure solution to manage the...
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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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