Projects & Agreements
Colt Expands Nordic PrizmNet,
Leveraging Verne Global’s Position
as a Gateway to Financial Markets
Verne Global, has announced that Colt has expanded its presence within its
Icelandic data centre by adding Colt PrizmNet as part of its on-net offering.
Colt PrizmNet is a financial extranet that connects a global capital markets
ecosystem of 85+ exchanges, venues and service providers and 10,000+
participants. It provides connectivity to all major venues, ensuring best execution
and visibility into global markets – increasing algorithmic trading efficiency.
Adding access to Verne Global’s campus is designed to help clients with
cost savings and the growing requirement for computationally intensive
technologies such as high performance computing (HPC) and grid applications.
Iceland’s data privacy laws will also enable Colt’s financial customers to meet
regulatory requirements for secure data storage and the ability to monitor and
manage new cyber security risks.
In today’s highly competitive financial
markets, firms are seeing an increasing
demand for data and analytics that is driving
the need for more compute resources and
higher capital and operational costs.
Acxiom Announces
Partnership with
Data Compliant
to help brands
accelerate GDPR
readiness
Pure Storage has announced a new pan-EMEA distributor agreement. The deal
enables PNY Technologies to offer modern flash storage to its established high
performance computing partner network.
As the EMEA distributor of NVIDIA enterprise products, PNY Technologies is
engaged with an experienced and established partner network across the region. This
has focused on the needs of customers operating in environments that demand high
performance compute capabilities such as artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning
and various scientific workloads, such as genomics.
Data is at the centre of the AI revolution. Large amounts of data must be delivered
to GPUs at incredibly high speeds in order to train models faster and more accurately.
As the essential instrument for AI research, the NVIDIA DGX-1 is at the heart of many
of the world’s most demanding deep learning and analytics environments. However,
customers found that legacy storage solutions, architected with serial building blocks,
failed to deliver in terms of performance and capability, demanded by AI workloads.
Pure Storage FlashBlade is the industry’s first data platform purpose-built for
AI and modern analytics. In half a rack, it can offer 8 petabytes usable, 75GB/s read
throughput, 25GB/s write throughput and 7.5M IOPS. Since general availability in
January 2017, FlashBlade has gained
traction among organisations innovating
with emerging workloads, specifically
modern analytics, AI and machine learning. Acxiom has announced a partnership
with Data Compliant to help businesses
address the challenges and the pressing
need to comply with the fast approaching
EU General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR). With more businesses looking
for approaches and solutions to optimise
their security and privacy preparations for
GDPR, this unique partnership will deliver
actionable, ‘Accelerated GDPR Readiness’
programmes for clients.
Acxiom brings to the partnership
a strong foundation in the ethical,
responsible and compliant use of
customer data for omnichannel marketing
and unparalleled expertise in client
data management, marketing capability
assessments, ethical data sourcing and
curating its own highly effective data
products for almost fifty years.
Data Compliant brings independence
and in-depth policy expertise,
assessment experience on business
readiness for the new EU Regulation
and deep experience embedding
effective corporate data governance and
accountability within an organisation.
Together, Acxiom’s experience and
practical expertise in data management
along with Data Compliant’s skillset and
policy expertise will ensure that businesses
have the right policies, procedures,
technologies and tools needed to generate
a combined practical and technical
roadmap that helps accelerate and ensure
GDPR readiness across an enterprise.
When it comes to GDPR there are a lot
of questions that have not been answered
and companies, therefore, need guidance
on how to handle the risk and assess the full
impact of GDPR across an entire business
structure as this guidance evolves.
For further information visit:
www.purestorage.com For further information visit:
www.acxiom.com
For further information visit:
www.verneglobal.com
Pure Storage and PNY Technologies Partner
to Bring AI and Modern Analytics to EMEA
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