Fujitsu adds deep learning to nVidia GPUs
Fujitsu today announces the addition of nVidia Volta Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate advances in artificial intelligence and support deep learning processing on its latest Primergy x86 servers. Available to customers in Europe, the Middle East, India...
EcoStruxure offers IoT-enabled plug-and-play
Schneider Electric's new EcoStruxure Industrial Software Platform offers IoT-enabled, plug-and-play, open architecture, which delivers end-to-end solutions in six domains of expertise -- power, IT, building, machine, plant and grid -- for four end markets, building,...
Energy Vision deploys hybrid power system
African telecom ESCO Energy Vision has ordered more than 100 units of Flexenclosure's eSite x10, ahybrid power system purpose-built for outdoor telecom sites and to outdoor telecom standards, for a large rollout of cell site power systems in Burkina Faso, for use by a...
Mellanox InfiniBand central to CHPC growth
Almost two years have passed since the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) chose Mellanox FDR InfiniBand to assist it in its goal of providing high-end computing resources to the South African...
Oracle’s SPARC systems deliver better performance
Oracle has announced its eighth generation SPARC platform, delivering new levels of security capabilities, performance, and availability for critical customer workloads. Powered by the new SPARC M8 microprocessor, new Oracle systems and IaaS deliver a modern...
Fujitsu drives SDDC with hyperconverged PrimeFlex
Fujitsu Integrated System PrimeFlex for VMware Cloud Foundation -- on show next week at VMworld in Barcelona -- is designed to dramatically simplify how companies buy, implement, and operate large-scale SDDCs. Customers can choose either a turnkey integrated system,...
VMware helps to modernise the data centre
At VMworld 2017, VMware has announced new releases of VMware Integrated OpenStack and VMware vRealize Network Insight to help customers modernise their data centres to increase business and developer agility while introducing increased networking and security...
Fujitsu PrimeQuest server sets world SAP record
The recently-launched Fujitsu Server PrimeQuest 3800B has demonstrated exceptional performance in demanding SAP(r) software environments by setting a new Sales and Distribution (SD) two-tier benchmark world record, underpinning the strengths of the enterprise-class...
Tarsus Distribution unveils HPE Synergy
Tarsus Distribution has announced the local availability of HPE Synergy from Hewlett Packard Enterprise - a converged infrastructure platform that provides a single solution for all applications and operational models, from traditional to cloud. The 'composable...
Availability to accelerate for rest of 2017
Nes that Microsoft will bring two Azure servers online in South Africa next year has caused a buzz of excitement in the local market. Veeam Software believes that this will significantly impact availability strategies across the continent. "Amidst organisations...
Fujitsu and SUSE unveil ‘SUSE Business Critical Linux’ support
Fujitsu and SUSE have announced the launch of a new premium Linux support service, "SUSE Business Critical Linux," which will be exclusively offered by Fujitsu over the next 12 months. Fujitsu has selected SUSE as its preferred Linux partner for this new premium Linux...
Uptime Institute certification for Rack Centre
Rack Centre, the Sub Sahara Africa's premium data centre and colocation services provider has attained the Tier III Tier Certification of Constructed Facility (TCCF) from the Uptime Institute, the first in the West African sub-region. The TCCF certification was...