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NEWS Nutanix recognised as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice vendor utanix, a leader in enterprise N cloud computing, has announced that it has been named by Gartner as a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. This is the second year that Nutanix has been recognised as a Customers’ Choice. “At a time when many organisations are struggling with the day-to-day realities of running a business remotely, we are continuing to focus on our customers by delivering an IT infrastructure that is invisible and automated, allowing teams to focus on more immediate business needs,” said David Sangster, Chief Operating Officer at Nutanix. “To us, being recognised as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Hyperconverged Infrastructure is a great honour and only strengthens our commitment to deliver cloud computing solutions that are flexible, simple, resilient and adaptable to customers’ changing needs, including widespread remote work.” Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) integrates compute, virtualisation, storage, networking and security, making tasks like deploying a virtual desktop environment much easier and faster. Something that would take weeks with legacy IT can take just hours with Nutanix. Portable, subscription-based software licenses deliver valuable flexibility so IT infrastructure is no longer coupled to specific hardware devices and configurations, which could be critically important in situations where the global supply chain is impacted. Siklu and Exertis Hammer partner to deliver wireless connectivity across northern Europe alue-added distributor, V Exertis Hammer, and Siklu, a global market leader in millimetre-wave wireless solutions, have announced a distribution agreement that will greatly expand Siklu’s reach to wireless connectivity resellers, data centres, integrators, service providers and OEMs in the UK, Ireland, Benelux and Scandinavia. Exertis Hammer has been supplying Ethernet, fibre channel and InfiniBand networks for nearly two decades and can supply networks for the campus, the data centre, storage and high-performance computing deployments. As part of the arrangement, Exertis Hammer will carry and distribute Siklu’s millimetre wave wireless solutions to its vertical markets. The UK and Europe distributor will be able to supply its new and existing customers with the full Siklu product range, which includes radios in the 60 GHz and 70/80GHz bands. Products offered through Exertis Hammer will include Siklu’s EtherHaul Hundred Series and EtherHaul Kilo Series that can support deployments with up to 10 Gb throughput, and up to 4.3 miles (6.9km), as well as the MultiHaul Series for automatically aligning rapid deployment. Siklu leads the millimetre wave radio market and offers excellent fibre extension solutions for delivering multigigabit connectivity free from 5GHz interference. Siklu’s mmWave radios provide fibre-like performance with the speed and flexibility of a wireless deployment. For companies in time-pressured industries, applying Siklu wireless connectivity solutions to the already existing networks helps shorten the deployment timelines. The agreement between Exertis Hammer and Siklu will allow many UK and European businesses, as well as public organisations, to have unprecedented access to best-in-class mmWave wireless connectivity. 10 Issue 15 www.intelligentdatacentres.com