Blackout disruptions show no sign of going away

Electrical blackouts could cost the UK economy billions of pounds and with the number of incidents on the rise, organisations are being warned not to underestimate the threat to supply. These are just some of the conclusions from Eaton’s latest annual Blackout Tracker UK Report that provides a comprehensive overview of power outages in 2014 and their potentially disastrous effects.

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SUSE and Veristorm bring Hadoop solutions to IBM z and Power Systems

Customers use Linux to effectively process big data for better business decisions.

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Huawei and SAP cooperate on Industry 4.0 and IoT

Huawei has revealed an expanded partnership with SAP to establish joint innovation efforts in Shenzhen, China and Walldorf, Germany. The SAP-Huawei joint innovation efforts will focus on establishing a technical collaboration between SAP and Huawei, and to advance research on the Internet of Things (IoT) to provide new solutions to market.

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Siemon publishes white paper on low loss fibre in the data centre

Siemon has published a white paper entitled ‘The Need for Low-Loss Multifibre Connectivity in Today’s Data Centre’. The paper considers optical insertion loss budgets, of particular concern for data centre managers in today’s large, virtualized server environments, with longer distance 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet backbone switch-to-switch deployments for networking and storage area networks (SANs).

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Companies left in the dark as two-thirds admit cloud apps being implemented without their knowledge

More than two-thirds (67 per cent) of organisations admit that unauthorised cloud applications are being implemented without IT’s knowledge or involvement, and correspondingly pose a security risk to the business. This is according to a snapshot poll by Centrify, the leader in unified identity management across cloud, mobile and data centre, at Cloud Expo Europe last week in London.

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Colliers launches EMEA Data Centre team

Colliers International has launched a Data Centre solutions team as part of a rising trend to enable organisations from corporations to retailers, professional services to financial services, future-proof their IT capacity and capability.

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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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