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Gartner recommends limiting data centres to two per continent

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Most global organisations have too many data centres in too many countries, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that in order for businesses to save costs and optimise service delivery, they need a twin data centre topology for each continent of major business activity.

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Siemens has supplied the new Swiss National Supercomputing Center (Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico, CSCS) with state-of-the-art technology capable of managing and controlling its building automation, safety and security systems. The center houses the fastest computers in the country and facilitates world-class scientific research by pioneering, operating and supporting leading-edge supercomputing technologies.

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Leading global facilities management provider Norland has awarded trusted supplier 8 Solutions, a specialist at increasing efficiency and mitigating against the risk of down-time in critical facilities, its ‘Highly Commended Supplier of the Year’ award. The two companies have been working in partnership for over 10 years.

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Cisco and NetApp are introducing four new FlexPod capabilities with additional features to simplify the cloud and offer greater business continuity. These FlexPod solutions have been designed to enable IT and service providers to become cloud enabled more easily. FlexPod provides a highly virtualized infrastructure that can be easily automated. Companies like Cirrity and Virtustream are taking advantage of FlexPod to help advance their cloud offering to their customers.

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Proact IT Group AB has through Proact Estonia AS signed a contract to acquire a business line from Elion Ettevõtted AS containing IT infrastructure solutions from Oracle, Hitachi Data systems, Quantum and Symantec.

Apptio helps companies compare IT costs

Apptio has unveiled product updates that, for the first time, allow enterprises to measure costs of their IT assets in standard categories, and automatically compare these categories against industry peers.

SIs are crumbling under the threat of SMEs, says Databarracks

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications now supports IBM Power Systems running SAP HANA®

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Hitachi Data Systems to acquire Pentaho

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Report identifies four emerging data centre models

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iPRONICS raises € 20m in Series A

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