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Rackspace Launches Global Professional Services for Enterprise Customers
Rackspace has announced an expanded professional services offering to help customers move workloads out of their data centres and onto the world ’ s leading public and private cloud platforms . This offer , called Global Solutions and Services , ( GSS ) will provide customers across all markets with the specialised expertise and support needed to transform their IT operations .
Through GSS , Rackspace architects and engineers will work with customers to plan , assess , design , migrate , manage and optimise their journey to the cloud , helping to ensure they achieve maximum performance , agility and cost efficiency .
Rackspace GSS will place an added focus on enterprise and mid-market businesses , and will help support their evolving business needs by providing specialised expertise and professional services in several key areas , such as security , compliance and governance .
The GSS offering is now available globally .
For further information visit : www . rackspace . com / en-gb / professional-services
Siemon introduces new Base 8 plug and play fibre system
Siemon has expanded its line of LightHouse advanced fibre cabling solutions with a comprehensive Base 8 plug and play system consisting of fibre enclosures , modules , adaptors , assemblies and jumpers .
Current 40Gb / s ( 40GBASE-SR4 ) and 100Gb / s ( 100GBASE- SR4 ) multimode fibre applications deployed for backbone switch-toswitch links in the data centre are based on eight optical fibres with four fibres transmitting and four receiving at either 10Gb / s or 25Gb / s . When using 12-fibre MPO / MTP solutions for these eight-fibre applications , 33 per cent of the optical fibre goes unused . While conversion cords or modules can be used to enable 100 per cent fibre utilisation , these solutions add additional cost and complexity . Furthermore , conversion modules add increased insertion loss , which can significantly limit flexibility when deploying fibre links .
Siemon ’ s new Base 8 plug and play system enables 100 per cent fibre utilisation , eliminating the need for conversion cords or modules while providing a complete end-to-end Base 8 fibre system for the most efficient support of current and future eight-fibre applications . The system includes Siemon ’ s high density FCP3 fibre enclosure along with snap-in Base 8 modules that feature three eight-fibre MTPs to 24 LCs to support 10Gb / s applications and MTP adaptor plates to support day-one 40Gb / s or 100Gb / s applications .
For further information visit : www . siemon . com / lighthouse
Huawei and Commvault Jointly Launch the Hybrid Cloud Back up Solution
Huawei and Commvault have released their hybrid cloud back up solution at CeBIT 2017 . The solution enables enterprises to efficiently and securely back up the core data of private data centres to a Huawei public cloud platform using Commvault software .
The solution significantly reduces customer investment in data back up while simplifying back up data maintenance . In addition , the solution provides on-demand storage resources to support businesses that are growing rapidly , enabling enterprises to get planning and maintenance free back up storage while ensuring a high level of security and availability of all critical data .
In contrast to on-premises data backup , this off-premises solution provides remote disaster recovery , enabling Huawei public clouds to provide convenient , large capacity object storage at a low cost and remarkable data durability . In addition , the solution supports encrypted transmission and static data encryption so as to guarantee the security of enterprise data . The hybrid cloud back up solution is currently applicable to the Open Telekom Cloud co-built by Huawei and Deutsche Telekom .
For further information visit : www . huawei . com and www . commvault . com
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