projects & agreements
BSO signs with Netrality
Properties, expanding
into third on-net data
centre in Chicago
BSO has announced its new relationship with Netrality
Properties, to establish a new Point-of-Presence (PoP) in
BSO’s third on-net data centre in Chicago at 717 South Wells.
This expansion benefits both BSO and Netrality customers,
providing financial traders and other clients looking for fast,
diverse, reliable connections with a single point of entry to
BSO’s global, ultra-low latency network, which offers local
infrastructure while also linking the Americas to Europe, the
Middle East and Asia Pacific. The move is BSO’s latest in its
comprehensive and aggressive US expansion plan.
One of the city’s most connected buildings, 717
South Wells serves as a gateway to local and long haul
infrastructure, offers reliable interconnection for its customers
and features a carrier neutral Meet Me Room. BSO’s move
into 717 South Wells further emphasises the company’s
dedication to bringing its unique approach to connectivity
to Chicago, the centre of the derivatives market and one of
the world’s top financial trading hubs. BSO also has PoPs
in Chicago’s E. Cermak and Aurora DC3 data centres; this
third entry point provides increased diversity to customers
accessing the network.
For further information visit: www.bsonetwork.com
LENOVO AND NIMBLE
STORAGE PARTNER TO
TRANSFORM THE DATA CENTRE
Lenovo and Nimble Storage have announced a strategic partnership
intended to transform data centre capabilities by delivering new
levels of efficiency and scale, and slashing the time IT teams spend
managing infrastructure.
Lenovo and Nimble will enable the use of predictive
analytics in infrastructure management to automate service
activities, allowing data centres to redeploy their resources from
maintenance and support tasks to strategic projects that deliver
value for their organisations.
According to recent data from industry analyst firm, Forrester, for
2016, US enterprises are allocating only 29 per cent of their tech
budgets to new project spending and 45 per cent of the balance
to ongoing operations and maintenance, keeping the lights on, and
maintaining the status quo.
This partnership brings together Lenovo’s server technology
with Nimble’s innovative all-flash storage offerings and InfoSight
Predictive Analytics as a means to address this issue, enabling the
IT professional to spend less time on maintenance and more time
innovating. In the first wave of these offerings, Lenovo announced
its ThinkAgile CX series of converged infrastructure solutions,
which has storage capabilities powered by Nimble Predictive allflash arrays.
For further information visit: www.lenovo.com
and www.nimblestorage.com