Schneider installs data centre at ELIDZ
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, has installed a full data centre solution at the East London Industrial Development Zone (ELIDZ), a prime industrial park servicing various industries such as automotive, agro-processing and aqua-culture,...
Riverbed aids software-defined data centres
At an event entitled Data Where You Need It; Control Where You Want It, Riverbed Technology will unveil breakthroughs in software-defined data centre deployments with Granite technology that extend the benefits of the data centre to global branch offices. At the...
Oracle announces big data rack
Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 Starter Rack and Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 In-Rack Expansion. Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 Starter Rack enables customers to jumpstart their first big data projects with an optimally sized...
Fujitsu, Oracle announce M10 servers
Continuing their more than 20-year partnership and leadership in mission-critical computing, Fujitsu and Oracle today announced the worldwide availability of Fujitsu M10 servers, based on the 16-core SPARC64 X processor. Fujitsu M10 servers deliver mainframe class...
The importance of effective IT installations
Globally, society has become increasingly dependent on technology. As a whole, there is such a dependence on technology that, when it fails, the ability to work is severely affected. IT is the foundation of any business and enables access to Internet, e-mail and...
EC rolls out mission-critical HP servers
Hewlett-Packard Belgium has announced that, through the open Call for Tenders - DIGIT/R2/PO/2011/038 - Mainframe data servers III, it has been selected by the European Commission (EC) to supply HP Integrity servers and related offerings to support critical workloads,...
Fujitsu launches the PRIMERGY CX420
Fujitsu has introduced a new solution intended to provide peace-of-mind for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) that rely on ICT to optimise their business. Launched at CeBIT, the new Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX420 introduces simplified clustering technology designed to help...
Jasco launches DCaaS offerings
Jasco Networks has announced the addition of data centre as a service (DCaaS) offerings to its last mile communication portfolio, augmenting the end-to-end networking solution with virtual data centre and other virtualisation services. This move takes Jasco ICT...
Altonet complies with global best practice
Altonet, local providers of the HP Autonomy LiveVault and Connected Backup solutions, which has its vaults in the Teraco data centre in Isando, has set up mirrored vaults in a geographically separated data centre located in Midrand. This move ensures that Altonet...
Mines need system architecture integration
With constant change to commodity demand and pricing, mining companies are required to maximise productivity and profitability across both greenfield and large brownfield projects. “Planning through economic cycles is a balancing act. You need to ensure that demand...
Workload-optimised solutions from Dell
To help customers run and deploy business-critical applications and workloads they depend on, Dell has announced new workload-optimised solutions for the SAP HANA platform that enable customers to confidently deploy Dell server, storage and networking systems running...
Mazda wins with Oracle SPARC T4 servers
Mazda Motor Corporation has modernised and consolidated its Mazda Digital Innovation (MDI) system on Oracle’s SPARC T4-4 and T4-2 servers running Oracle Solaris 10. The MDI system is critical to Mazda product development and provides technologies which span the entire...