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DigiCert unveils Device Trust Manager for IoT security

DigiCert, a global provider of digital trust products, has announced the evolution of its IoT security platform with the launch of DigiCert Device Trust Manager, an innovation designed to safeguard IoT devices throughout the entire lifecycle. The new Device Trust Manager addresses the critical needs of device manufacturers for an integrated and scalable solution to secure IoT devices, manage complex compliance requirements, and ensure operational and device integrity amidst growing threats targeting devices. With the projected growth of 55.7 billion connected devices by the year 2025 - spanning consumer electronics, healthcare equipment, industrial systems, and more - the threat landscape grows more diverse and complex each day. The scale of this interconnected ecosystem also amplifies compliance issues, as organisations struggle to adhere to stringent security standards and regulations across diverse device types, environments, and borders. To effectively mitigate these risks, organisations need a comprehensive way to manage and secure the vast array of devices in various stages of the lifecycle while safeguarding data, privacy, and operational continuity in the face of evolving threats. “With Device Trust Manager, DigiCert is reinforcing its commitment to digital trust in the rapidly expanding IoT landscape,” says Deepika Chauhan, Chief Product Officer, DigiCert. “We're excited to introduce this integrated platform to new and existing customers, transforming IoT device security with comprehensive protection throughout the device lifecycle. Device Trust Manager checks all the IoT boxes, except the one labelled 'Ship and Pray'.” DigiCert Device Trust Manager offers unparalleled security for every stage of the IoT device lifecycle, from birth to decommission, ensuring compliance while improving operational efficiency. The solution prioritises privacy, consumer safety, and business continuity via: • Enhanced compliance: Simplifies adherence to international regulations, supporting rigorous compliance demands with detailed SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials), real-time monitoring, and secure provisioning to maintain device integrity throughout the lifecycle• Operational efficiency: Automates security processes, enabling quicker device deployment with features like over-the-air (OTA) updates and zero-touch provisioning• Risk mitigation: Improves anomaly detection capabilities to protect against downtime and data breaches• Scalable security: Easily scales from small to large deployments, adapting to various device ecosystems. “The latest solution from DigiCert, built upon the already impressive DigiCert One platform, shows continued innovation,” says Sam Gabbay, President, TUO Accessories. “Once again, DigiCert is leading the way by showing leadership, commitment to IoT security and especially their customer experience by thinking 10 steps ahead for them. I am proud to be a DigiCert customer and am excited to use Device Trust Manager, which shows promise to improve an already streamlined workflow.” For more from DigiCert, click here.

Schneider Electric helps Sidara build a greener future

Schneider Electric, a leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has revealed that its smart energy management solutions feature in the London headquarters of leading design, engineering, and consulting group, Sidara. Designed by Sidara’s own engineers, 150 Holborn has been created with sustainability and user efficiency at its core. Embedded with innovative smart building technology, the new headquarters will play a key role in supporting Sidara’s ambition to decarbonise its business by 2030, under the World Green Building Council’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment. The building, which officially opened its doors in January 2023, is over 180,000 square feet and caters for over 1,000 employees. It is built on Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure IoT platform and uses a sophisticated network of over 650 sensors and controls to collect, analyse, and manage over 60,000 data points. These provide vital information into energy usage, occupancy patterns, and environmental conditions, such as temperature, humidity, and light intensity, in near real time. The data and insights from the platform allow Sidara to tailor the environmental conditions within office spaces and meet the specific needs and preferences of occupants. Whether it’s adjusting lighting levels, modifying temperatures or boosting air quality, the system ensures that workspaces are not just habitable but are optimised to promote well-being and productivity. It is also helping the company to reduce energy waste and deliver on the wider sustainability initiatives. “Access to Schneider Electric’s expertise and experience has been vital to understanding how our building’s technology and systems must be designed to enable continuous optimisation and innovation,” says Dan Cope, IT manager at Sidara. “Our vision is to create a best-in-class working environment to optimise energy consumption and enhance comfort levels for both employees and visitors. However, this is just the beginning. Becoming more sustainable is a journey and ongoing engagement with the Schneider Electric team will be key to understanding the building and benchmarking ourselves moving forward.” Kas Mohammed, VP Digital Energy at Schneider Electric UK & Ireland, notes, “With 150 Holborn, Sidara has created a building of the future, today. Every aspect of its smart infrastructure has been meticulously planned and executed to help the company on its journey to net-zero. This new headquarters stands as a beacon of best-practice and Sidara’s efforts to build sustainability into its very foundation is something that others can – and should – look to emulate.” For more from Schneider Electric, click here.

STX Next appoints new Head of Data Engineering

STX Next, a global leader in IT consulting, has announced the appointment of Tomasz Jędrośka as Head of Data Engineering. Tomasz is responsible for expanding STX Next’s team of data engineers while getting clients AI-ready by building and maintaining their data infrastructure. Bringing almost two decades of technical experience to the role, Tomasz previously worked as Head of Data Engineering at CodiLime and as a Senior Project Manager at Nordea. Jędrośka aims to strengthen STX Next’s credentials in fields including data architecture design, multi-source data ingestion, and data cleaning and normalisation, especially in the context of extended AI-based analysis. Tomasz says, “I’m excited to join a company that aims to be a technological partner and constantly drive growth for its clients by unlocking the potential of emerging innovations and processing techniques. As Head of Data Engineering, I will focus on ensuring data is a valuable asset for every company we partner with while supporting the delivery of AI solutions by assisting with the preparation of holistic data architecture. “Data engineering is a vital skill set in any organisation, allowing businesses to make informed decisions based on their data, save time through more efficient information processing, and lay the foundations for the implementation of AI solutions and process automation. I believe it’s vital that business leaders recognise the importance of this discipline and understand how it can be instrumental in building a platform for sustained growth. “My strategic objectives, designed to further advance STX Next’s already sophisticated data engineering capabilities, all relate to refining data architecture design, implementing a scalable infrastructure to manage and analyse large quantities of data, and improving data quality operations. As a practitioner of a customer-centric approach, I aim to deliver a holistic, cloud-native, and AI-capable data processing and analytical platform that extends our clients' offerings and boosts their competitive advantages.” Ronald Binkofski, CEO of STX Next, adds, “As a company, we’re intent on contributing to the growth and development of AI solutions, and Tomasz’s appointment will play a central role in preparing clients for AI deployment. It’s fantastic to have another experienced and knowledgeable professional in a specialist management role and I’m certain Tomasz’s expertise will support our goal to deliver the best and most advanced level of service possible.”

VAST partners with Superna to help boost cyber resilience

VAST Data, an AI data platform company, has announced a partnership with Superna, a provider of data security and cyber storage solutions for on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The integration will provide VAST customers with immutable data protection, real-time suspicious behaviour detection, automated cyber threat response, and near-instant recovery from ransomware and other disasters, bolstering cyber resilience for their enterprise data. With ransomware payments exceeding $1.1 billion (£865m) in 2023, enterprises today require sophisticated protection embedded at the storage layer. The VAST Data Platform aligns to the NIST framework, providing a solid foundation to detect, protect against, respond to, recover from, and even prevent cyber threats entirely with active defence and powerful Zero Trust security features. VAST’s breakthrough approach to data management and data-intensive computing serves as the comprehensive software infrastructure for AI and deep learning. As AI adoption grows, so does the challenge of managing large amounts of unstructured data. This new world, with new workloads using various data types, needs a new level of protection for cyber resilience. With its Zero Trust architecture, granular access control, multitenancy with strict isolation, and intelligent threat detection, VAST has integrated Superna Data Security Edition capabilities into the VAST Data Platform, enabling them to mitigate the risks of ransomware and other threats to AI models and application datasets. “By combining the world’s simplest, fastest and most efficient data platform built for exabyte scale AI, with Superna’s trusted, secure data protection and recovery offerings, we’re offering a ready-made solution able to access, manage, move and protect data for the most data-intensive organisations on the planet,” says John Mao, Vice President, Technology Alliances at VAST Data. “With VAST and Superna, customers get robust, federated cyber defence and resilience at the data layer. ” Together, VAST Data and Superna provide organisations worldwide with: • Ransomware detection at the data layer. The VAST and Superna partnership seeks to redefine ransomware protection with proprietary algorithms and multi-layer defence that analyses data and user behaviour in real-time. Proactive threat detection protects against and halts known and emerging ransomware threats before they breach data defenses, significantly boosting cybersecurity resilience by dismantling dangers at their very origin. • Improved business continuity. With this comprehensive security offering, organisations can significantly reduce the risk of data breaches while still capturing immutable snapshots for immediate, automatic recovery of the last-known clean data set. Superna Disaster Recovery Edition mitigates the impact of attacks, facilitating uninterrupted business operations and AI deployments by safeguarding customers’ mission critical data. • Streamlined disaster recovery and global replication. With VAST and Superna, customers can replicate entire systems, jobs and policies to another cluster with Tenant-Aware Replication and Intelligent Configuration Replication under every protected path. • Robust Migration with Heterogeneous Environments. As many organisations undertake initiatives like moving to a preferred cloud, repatriation, and diversification of storage (intentional or not), the ability to provide a consistent approach everywhere is essential. Superna facilitates flexible data migration from supported storage platforms to VAST, allowing customers to easily re-platform their data and services. • Seamless integration with leading security tools. The VAST Data Platform intelligently integrates the Superna Data Security Edition into existing security tools, enhancing defense posture without disrupting workflows or processes. By keeping security and operations teams on high alert with comprehensive reports on the scope of an attack, VAST and Superna are empowering these teams to mitigate threats and accelerate recoveries. Superna bundled with VAST is available to partners via ARROW. For more from VAST Data, click here.

DataStax launches hyper-converged data platform

DataStax, a Generative AI data company, today announced the upcoming launch of DataStax HCDP (Hyper-Converged Data Platform), in addition to the upcoming release of DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 6.9. Both products enable customers to add generative AI and vector search capabilities to their self-managed, enterprise data workloads. The company describes DataStax HCDP as "the future of self-managed data", and the platform is designed for modern data centres and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) to support the breadth of data workloads and AI systems. It supports powerful on-premises enterprise data systems built to AI-enable data and is ideal for enterprise operators and architects who want to take advantage of data centre modernisation investments to reduce operating costs and operational overhead. HCDP brings OpenSearch and Apache Pulsar for generative AI RAG knowledge retrieval The combination of OpenSearch’s widely adopted Enterprise Search capabilities, with the high-performance vector search capabilities of the DataStax cloud-native, NoSQL Hyper-Converged Database, enables users to retrieve data in highly flexible ways, catalysing the ability to get RAG and knowledge applications into production. “With more than 2,000 contributors, including upwards of 200 maintainers spanning 19 organisations, OpenSearch has built a vibrant, growing community and is used by companies around the world,” says Mukul Karnik, General Manager, Search Services at AWS. “We’ve seen a growing number of companies building AI-powered capabilities using OpenSearch, and RAG workloads in particular can benefit from OpenSearch’s extensive full-text search capabilities. We are excited to have DataStax join the community and offer OpenSearch as part of HCDP, and we look forward to seeing how their customers use it to build a range of new generative AI-powered services and applications.” Hyper-converged streaming (HCS) built with Apache Pulsar is designed to provide data communications for a modern infrastructure. With native support of inline data processing and embedding, HCS brings vector data to the edge, allowing for faster response times and enabling event data for better contextual generative AI experiences. With the ability to consolidate workloads from legacy applications, HCS provides application communication modernisation and enables users to operate across multiple cloud environments or between on-premise and cloud to provide a high-performance, scalable data communications layer that simplifies data integration across all environments. HCDP provides rapid provisioning and powerful, intuitive data APIs built around the DataStax one-stop GenAI stack for enterprise retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and it’s all built on the proven, open-source Apache Cassandra platform. DataStax 6.9 brings generative AI capabilities to existing on-premises data DataStax Enterprise 6.9 offers enterprise operators and architects with massive on-premises Cassandra and DSE workloads the fastest upgrade to lower total cost of ownership and operational overhead, while adding powerful GenAI capabilities to their existing on-premises data. Its vector add-on brings vector search capabilities to both existing DSE and lift-and-shift Cassandra workloads, and the addition of DataStax Mission Control makes the operations of on-premises data workloads dramatically easier with cloud-native operations and observability on Kubernetes. “We're looking forward to DSE 6.9 for its advancements in real-time digital banking services. Currently, we use DSE for critical tasks like data offloading and real-time data services. Its full-text search enhances customer engagement without adding to core system loads,” notes Marcin Dobosz, Director of Technology, Neontri. “With features like the Vector Add-On and DataStax Mission Control, DSE 6.9 aligns with our goal of modernising technology stacks for financial institutions, enhancing productivity, search relevance, and operational efficiency to better meet clients' needs." Ed Anuff, Chief Product Officer, DataStax, concludes, “We’re delivering the future of self-managed data for modern infrastructure and AI systems, and enabling enterprises to get the most out of their data centre modernisation and total cost of ownership. In addition to supporting all of the new HCI investments on the most powerful systems in new AI data and edge clouds, we’re also enabling users to benefit from powerful integrations with leading technologies like OpenSearch and Apache Pulsar.”

Veeam extends data freedom for customers with Proxmox support

Veeam Software, a provider of data protection and ransomware recovery technologies, has announced that it will now deliver support for Proxmox VE. Support for this virtualisation platform has been a popular request from Veeam’s existing small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers and service providers. Veeam will showcase this new data protection capability live for the first time during VeeamON 2024, taking place 3-5 June 2024, at the Diplomat Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and online. As organisations embrace new technology and evolve their business, it is critical they can choose the business platforms and applications optimised for their particular needs. This is at the core of data freedom. Veeam enables organisations to protect, move and recover their data from and to the platforms they prefer, and the company is also committed to extending support for new platforms giving customers freedom of choice. Following the recently launched support for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, Veeam is again extending the breadth of Veeam Data Platform, which provides data security, data recovery, and data freedom to backup and use data from anywhere without platform or cloud lock-in to soon also include the Proxmox VE hypervisor. Veeam currently supports VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization, as well as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. John Jester, Chief Revenue Officer at Veeam, says, “When we talk with customers, one of their most common questions is how they can move between their preferred platforms both in the cloud and on-premises. It is why Veeam champions data freedom – giving customers the ability to move to new platforms with the peace of mind we provide through data protection and cyber recovery. “This introduction of Proxmox VE support extends our comprehensive data management solution to address the challenges currently faced by our customers as they struggle with hard decisions in order to keep their data safe and protected, and their businesses running. As we continue to advocate for data freedom and choice for our 450,000 customers, backup for Proxmox VE provides them with an additional option for the tools and flexibility they need to optimise their data management practices, enable cyber resiliency and accelerate business growth.” Veeam Data Platform gives users even greater freedom of choice to best fit changing business needs for both virtualisation and cloud. Key highlights of Veeam’s Proxmox VE support include: Immutable backups: Keep on-premises and cloud backups of Proxmox VE VMs safe and protected from encryption by ransomware, accidental deletions, or malicious destruction during cyberattacks with storage-based immutability. Or, leverage native support for tape and for rotated drives to achieve true airgap at the lowest possible cost. Uncompromised backup performance: Powered by advanced changed block tracking (CBT) integration and hot add backup mode, Proxmox VE users can now enjoy faster and more efficient virtual machine (VM) backups, minimising disruptions from long-running backups and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. Veeam BitLooker: By automatically excluding unused disk blocks, such as those belonging to deleted guest OS files, this intelligent feature significantly enhances backup performance while conserving valuable storage space. Storage flexibility: Support for all Veeam Backup and Replication backup repository types, including hardened repositories and object storage, empowers customers to easily create backup repositories from any storage that suits their RTO/RPO requirements and budget. Freedom of full VM recovery: VMs from key virtualisation platforms such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V or public cloud can be promptly restored to Proxmox VE – and the other way around too, reducing downtime and maximising productivity. Advanced granular recovery capabilities: Effortlessly identify and quickly recover all changed and deleted files, due to a ransomware attack for example, ensuring business continuity and peace of mind in the face of unexpected data loss or unplanned disruption. “Veeam’s upcoming support for Proxmox is a testament to the customer value delivered by Proxmox VE during this time of market transformation,” says Martin Maurer, CEO of Proxmox. “We are excited that so many customers are making it clear that Proxmox VE is the hypervisor that meets their business objectives. Veeam delivering comprehensive Proxmox VE backup in Veeam Data Platform further validates and acknowledges customers’ demands and desire for data freedom of choice.” “Veeam has developed comprehensive platform support over the past few years and is constantly evolving how it can better protect environments of all sizes,” notes Christophe Bertrand, Practice Director at ESG. “This is why providing resilience to Proxmox VE environments – the sixth hypervisor the company now supports – is not only a logical step, but one that should further confirm Veeam’s focus on customer and SMB market requirements around the protection of data, and its mobility.” General availability for Proxmox VE support is expected in Q3 2024. For more from Veeam, click here.

Keepit crowned a winner in 2024 Cloud Security Awards

Keepit, a provider of SaaS data protection solutions, achieved success in the 2024 Cloud Security Awards programme by being named a winner in the 'Best Security Solution for Data Management / Data Protection' category. Now in its second year and with an expanded range of categories, The Cloud Security Awards programme celebrates the pivotal innovations in cloud-based security solutions from around the globe. In addition to the aforementioned success, Keepit was also a finalist in the 'Best in Information Security' category. Speaking on the company's success, James Williams, CEO of The Cloud Awards, comments, “Keepit has successfully navigated all three rounds of judging during a rigorous selection process, impressing the judges with their innovation and commitment to keeping data and other assets safe, secure, and private. We look on with interest to see what Keepit has in store for its customers throughout the rest of 2024, and beyond. Many congratulations to them, and our other winners.” Michele Hayes, CMO at Keepit, adds, “Keepit supports customers around the globe by future-proofing their security strategies. This accolade underscores our commitment to innovation, security and reliability, and further positions the company as a leader in the cybersecurity industry.” Built for the cloud, the Keepit platform is designed for usability, security and scalability. With a user-friendly interface, robust data security, and the ability to adapt to the user's cloud environment, Keepit ensures the user's data is always accessible and protected. The Cloud Awards is an international programme which has been recognising and honouring industry leaders, innovators and organisational transformation in cloud computing since 2011. The Cloud Awards comprises five awards programmes, each uniquely celebrating success across cloud computing, software-as-a-service (SaaS), cloud security, artificial intelligence (AI), and financial technologies (FinTech). Winners are selected by a judging panel of international industry experts. For more information about the Cloud Awards, click here. For more from Keepit, click here.

Collab seeks to accelerate modern virtualisation adoption

Pure Storage, an IT company that delivers advanced data storage technology and services, and Red Hat, a provider of open source technologies, have announced an optimisation for Portworx by Pure Storage on Red Hat OpenShift to enable streamlined integration and provide enterprises with a more seamless path to modern virtualisation. By delivering a single platform to deploy, scale, and manage modern applications, and a single control plane for both virtual machines (VMs) and containers, Pure Storage and Red Hat can help accelerate time to market and provide a consistent and flexible data experience. Enterprises are increasingly moving applications to containers to speed and scale deployment. However, many enterprises remain significantly invested in large traditional application footprints that run in VMs. Supporting multiple platforms based on both VMs and containers is cumbersome and expensive, and is often exacerbated by the need to re-architect VM-based applications for compatibility with modern frameworks. This can slow development, create operational complexity, and hinder data visibility. In fact, according to a recent survey, more than four out of five (81%) of data management stakeholders are planning to modernise or migrate existing VM workloads to cloud-native options, with 79% citing operational simplicity as a key driver for these plans. Portworx by Pure Storage and Red Hat OpenShift, through Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation, support both containers and VMs, enabling customers to standardise end-to-end application modernisation at scale. With this latest optimisation and co-development, enterprises can run traditional virtualised applications side-by-side with modern containerised applications, streamlining operations, reducing costs, and bringing the entire application development process together. Portworx brings enterprise-grade data management capabilities to Red Hat OpenShift customers to not only migrate VMs to Red Hat OpenShift but also provide developers with a single, self-service portal to build, test, and deploy applications, with integrated support for storage, data, and the entire application lifecycle management. Benefits include: Faster time to market with enhanced operational efficiency: Enterprises can improve time to production with self-service options for development teams to quickly migrate VMs, and apply cloud-native operational and development practices to VMs, accelerating time to value. Additionally, Portworx and Red Hat offer more cost-effective options for customers to shorten ramp-up time and day two operations resulting in an estimated 63% cost reduction encompassing infrastructure expenses, licenses, and subscriptions when compared to alternatives. Simplified, more consistent development and management: Together, Portworx and Red Hat help simplify the management of VMs and containers with a unified view, and a more consistent set of storage, data, and application management tools, creating better alignment between virtualisation admins and platform engineering teams. Flexibility to deploy VMs and containers anywhere: Enterprises can modernise their VM-based applications by benefiting from the modern storage, data, and application management principles by integrating Portworx with Red Hat OpenShift. This enables enterprises with greater flexibility to deploy VM and containerised applications on any on-premises, cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure while maintaining consistent storage and data services. Murli Thirumale, GM, Portworx by Pure Storage, comments, “Enabling integration for Portworx on Red Hat OpenShift represents a pivotal advancement in modern IT infrastructure representing the modern storage and compute building blocks, respectively. By combining the Portworx platform’s robust data management capabilities with the agility and scalability of Red Hat OpenShift, enterprises gain the foundation for building a modern virtualisation stack, achieving the benefits of Kubernetes without rearchitecting VMs. Our collaboration with Red Hat not only accelerates application development and deployment but helps drive enterprise reliability and operational flexibility across complex, hybrid cloud environments.” Mike Barrett, Vice President and General Manager, Hybrid Platforms, Red Hat, comments, “Portworx offers enterprise-class storage capabilities such as high availability, performance, backup and disaster for both VMs and containers running in Red Hat OpenShift. Together, we are providing a powerful solution for enterprises seeking to modernise their application development without the complexities of managing disparate development platforms. “By seamlessly integrating VMs and containers within a unified framework, we offer enterprises flexibility and efficiency in infrastructure deployment, storage management, and the overall application lifecycle. Our partnership with Portworx empowers customers to standardise their IT environments while accelerating their journey towards modern virtualisation.” Archana Venkatraman, Research Director, Cloud Data Management, IDC, adds, “The virtualisation landscape is undergoing rapid transformation, prompting organisations to re-evaluate their IT infrastructures and application architectures, particularly those heavily reliant on VMs. Many are now accelerating the modernisation of monolithic applications into cloud-native or microservices-based architectures. “The integration of Portworx and Red Hat OpenShift arms enterprises with the tools they need to seamlessly integrate containers and VMs on a unified infrastructure while driving efficiency, agility, and significant cost savings.” For more from Pure Storage, click here.

"We’ve got to talk about AI"

Centiel, a global Uninterruptible Power Supply manufacturer, looks at the role of AI in relation to data centres while exploring some of the challenges and opportunities. There is much talk about how data centres will deal with AI (machine learning). One major challenge is that AI requires three times the power needed compared to normal servers. Facilities will also need extra space to house additional equipment to manage and power the data. We are already seeing AI in use in our daily lives. On LinkedIn we are invited to use AI to help us write a social media post and ChatGPT has caught the imagination of copywriters across the world. However, this is just the start. AI’s capability will grow exponentially over the next few years. This phenomenon is set against a society already struggling to provide enough energy and infrastructure for existing services. Data centres are already placing a huge strain on the national grid and we also have EV chargers and additional homes to add to the grid. We must look at alternatives. At Centiel, members of our team have been at the forefront of technology for many years bringing to market the first three-phase transformerless UPS and the first, second, third and fourth generations of true modular, hot-swappable three-phase UPS. Most recently, we turned our attention to helping data centres achieve net-zero targets. Following four years’ development we recently launched StratusPower a UPS to provide complete peace of mind in relation to power availability while helping data centres become more sustainable. StratusPower shares all the benefits of our award-winning three phase, true modular UPS CumulusPower - including '9 nines' (99.9999999%) availability to effectively eliminate system downtime; class leading 97.6% on-line efficiency to minimise running costs; true 'hot swap' modules to eliminate human error in operation – but now also includes long-life components to improve sustainability. Large data centres can need 100MW or more of power to support their load and in the future, they will need to generate their own power through renewables like photovoltaic arrays, perhaps located on the roofs of their buildings, or wind farms located in adjacent fields. Currently, mains AC power is rectified to create a DC bus that is used to charge batteries and provide an input to an inverter. But what about a future where the DC bus can be supplied from mains power and/or renewable sources? There is little doubt that future grid instability and unreliability will need to be corrected by the use of renewables, and StratusPower is ready to meet this future. The product is built with the future of renewables in mind, ensuring stability and reliability as we transition to cleaner energy sources. With a power density greater than 1MW per M2, StratusPower also offers a compact solution. Al is set to put more strain on infrastructure and power supplies which are already struggling to cope. However, the technology is now available to harness alternative energy sources, and our team of trusted advisors at Centiel can discuss the options to help future-proof facilities in the face of the AI revolution. We’ve got to talk about AI, so why not give Centiel’s team a call? To learn more, visit www.centiel.co.uk. For more from Centiel, click here.

Digital Realty partners with Oracle to accelerate AI growth

Digital Realty, a global provider of cloud and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation, and interconnection technologies, has announced a collaboration with Oracle to accelerate the growth and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) among enterprises. The strategic collaboration aims to develop hybrid integrated innovations that address data gravity challenges, expedite time to market for enterprises deploying next-generation AI services, and unlock data and AI-based business outcomes. As part of this collaboration, Oracle will deploy critical GPU-based infrastructure in a dedicated Digital Realty data centre in Northern Virginia. This deployment, which leverages PlatformDIGITAL - Digital Realty’s open, purpose-built global data centre solution - will cater to a wide range of enterprises and AI customers, helping them to address critical infrastructure challenges, including those experienced with NVIDIA and AMD deployments. By leveraging the expertise and resources of both Oracle and Digital Realty, customers with mixed requirements can benefit from a tailored and efficient offering that meets their specific needs for GPU-based infrastructure. This announcement further strengthens Digital Realty's existing partnership with Oracle, which currently encompasses multiple deployments across the globe, 11 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect points of presence, a global ServiceFabric presence, and a recent Oracle Solution Centre deployment in one of Digital Realty’s Frankfurt data centres. In the fourth quarter of last year, Digital Realty successfully implemented an OCI Dedicated Region deployment for a major financial services customer, showcasing the potential of the collaboration between Oracle and Digital Realty in meeting enterprise customers' hybrid cloud requirements. Patrick Cyril, Global Vice President, Technical Sales & Customer Excellence – Revenue Operations, Oracle, says, “We’re excited to be working with Digital Realty to bring innovative solutions to the market that empower our enterprise customers workloads and their ecosystems to harness the boundless possibilities of AI. Together, we're not just pioneering technology; we're unlocking a future where every challenge is met with unparalleled innovation and every opportunity is maximised.” Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer at Digital Realty, comments, “We’re delighted to build upon our relationship with Oracle and enable the next generation of hybrid and private AI adoption among enterprises. Together, we're bringing the extensive capabilities of the cloud to enterprises’ private data sets through secure interconnection, unlocking new data-driven business outcomes.” Digital Realty states that its collaboration with Oracle signifies a significant step forward in the advancement of AI technologies. Furthermore, the company hopes that by combining their expertise and resources, together they can revolutionise the AI landscape and empower enterprises to unlock the full potential of their data. For more from Digital Realty, click here.