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IT Infrastructure stories - Page 47

The vast numbers of servers, routers, storage devices, and services comprising the foundations or framework of information technology systems all fall under the definition of IT Infrastructure.

Essentially, IT infrastructure is relied upon and underpins every interaction with the internet, a cellular network, and every transmission between one person and another over a computer or telephone.
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US-China trade war sees Huawei launch unique data centre chipset

Tue, 8th Jan 2019
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Huawei launches Kunpeng 920 chipset for data centres, boasting 25% better performance and 30% less power usage, amid US-China trade tensions.
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Surging HCI adoption to drive intelligent data centers in 2019

Mon, 7th Jan 2019
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Kevin McNamara explores the flow-on effects of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) adoption and what it means for IT teams.
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2019 data centre predictions from Interxion's Europe MD

Thu, 27th Dec 2018
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The coming year looks set to be one of implementation where we see a lot of technologies that have been present on the fringes become mainstream.
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Forget the hype, here's some edge computing clarity

Wed, 26th Dec 2018
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Schneider Electric's Kevin Brown discusses the confusion surrounding edge computing and what he believes is the definition - and its place in our future.
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5 strategies for widening the colocation data centre talent pool

Fri, 21st Dec 2018
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The colocation industry has one of the lowest unemployment numbers across industries, making talent acquisition a difficult task.
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Report: Bulk of data centre managers don't care about environment

Fri, 21st Dec 2018
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This week Supermicro released its first annual report detailing the environmental impact of today's cloud-scale data centres.
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Critical data centre operations is just like F1

Thu, 13th Dec 2018
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Schneider's David Gentry believes critical data centre operations share many parallels to a formula 1 race car team.
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Why the future of IT infrastructure is always on and always available

Thu, 6th Dec 2018
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As more organisations embrace digital business, infrastructure and operations leaders will need to evolve their strategies and skills to keep up.
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Is the on-premises data centre really going to 'die'?

Thu, 6th Dec 2018
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Gartner certainly thinks so, as it expects the sheer majority of enterprises to have binned their on-premises facility by 2025.
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Gartner's ten 2019 trends for infrastructure and operations

Wed, 5th Dec 2018
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As IT infrastructure and operations take an continually growing role in the IT ecosystem, Gartner highlights what to prepare for in the year ahead.
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Lenovo DCG takes ANZ partners on Europe experience

Tue, 4th Dec 2018
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The fully-funded tour included the Nutanix conference in London, the Lenovo EMEA data centre, and driving on the Autobahn in fire-breathing Mercs.
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Data centre operations must become more standardised

Tue, 4th Dec 2018
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Schneider Electric's Anthony DeSpirito says with data centres being crucial to business profit and loss, CIOs must now be a partner in all strategic decisions.
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Park Place opening EMEA ops centre in Cork, jobs up for grabs

Tue, 27th Nov 2018
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The world's largest post-warranty data centre maintenance organisation has announced that it will be opening its new EMEA Operations Centre in Cork, Ireland.
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Vertiv launches IT testing lab in Poland data centre

Tue, 27th Nov 2018
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This facility is the first of its kind in the Central and Eastern Europe region (CEE) and will enable clients to test environments to improve energy efficiency.
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University of Birmingham deploys UK's largest IBM POWER9 AI cluster

Wed, 21st Nov 2018
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After originally deploying just two servers, the University realised it needed more horsepower and added another nine.
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Datacentres Ireland gets the ball rolling in Dublin

Wed, 21st Nov 2018
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Ireland's largest dedicated gathering of suppliers for data centres today opened in Dublin and is set to span two days.
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Frankfurt overtakes London as largest data centre cluster

Sat, 17th Nov 2018
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After many forecasts predicting it, a new report of Europe's top 20 data centre clusters has confirmed London has lost its crown to Frankfurt.
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Enterprises to begin closing their data centres

Fri, 16th Nov 2018
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Dan Hushon predicts next year companies will begin bidding farewell (if they haven't already) to their onsite data centres.
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HPE extends cloud-based AI tool InfoSight to servers

Fri, 16th Nov 2018
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HPE asserts it is a big deal as the system can drive down operating costs, plug disruptive performance gaps, and free up time to allow IT staff to innovate.
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Data centre management can learn from the Navy

Wed, 14th Nov 2018
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While a nuclear submarine may seem like a completely different beast from a data centre, the similarities in how they should be managed are striking and many.