Weather outlook is sunny

Cray has signed a $36 million contract to upgrade and expand the Cray® XC™ supercomputers and Cray® Sonexion® storage system at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). When the project is completed, the enhanced systems will allow the world-class numerical weather prediction and research center to continue to drive improvements in its highly-complex models to provide more accurate weather forecasts.

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Economic recovery is rekindling interest for ICT investments among Spanish enterprises

A recent survey from Kable shows that 44% of enterprises in Spain have been planning to increase their overall ICT budget in 2015, an increase of 20% from 2014.

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Do IT Systems and Bright Computing partner for Italian HPC market

Italy-based Do IT Systems has signed up to the Bright Partner Programme.

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Building a modern data centre by the book

Three award-winning authors and technologists have published a new book, Building a Modern Data Center: Principles and Strategies of Design, that provides practical advice on how to use new technologies such as hyperconvergence, software-defined data centres and the cloud to meet the business challenges facing today’s IT organisations.

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Avnet in the UK is named Cisco EMEA Data Centre Distributor for 2015

Avnet wins top award for boosting Cisco’s growth in the data centre marketplace.

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AMD Opteron A1100 SoC joins the 64-Bit ARM data centre arena

AMD marks a major step toward delivering choice and innovation in the datacenter with the launch of the AMD Opteron™ A1100 System-on-Chip (SoC), formerly codenamed "Seattle." Jointly with its software and hardware partners, AMD is accelerating time-to-deployment of ARM®-based systems and driving forward ecosystem support for ARM in the datacenter.

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Storage industry innovator X-IO Technologies says that its “Intelligent Storage...
Speeds four times faster and storage capacity increased to more than 10TB after total...
As businesses increasingly embrace private, public, and hybrid clouds to cost-effectively and...
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.74 trillion in 2019, an increase of 0.6% from 2018,...
Super Micro Computer has launched the industry’s first family of server and storage systems that...
82% see decision making hurt by data fragmentation. 93% struggling to control corporate data. 83%...
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Three benefits of a converged infrastructure

ISG looked at the benefits of converged infrastructures, which combine data center components into centrally managed systems. NFLEX is a pre-configured converged infrastructure solution by NetApp and Fujitsu supporting all three ISG requirements.

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