NEWS IN BRIEF
07
Pulsant acquire Onyx
The cloud computing and colocation
expert, Pulsant has acquired IT
infrastructure services provider Onyx.
The acquisition is part of a wider
strategy for the company to enhance
capabilities and strengthen their overall
market position.
Five Onyx data centres in Edinburgh,
Glasgow, Sheffield and Newcastle,
alongside staff and infrastructure will be
integrated with Pulsant over the coming
month. The combined business will be
made up of 400 staff, with revenues
of £75m and over 4,000 customers in
a number of industries. 15 owned and
operated data centres across the UK will
provide the backbone of operations.
Pulsant CEO Mark Howling, said:
“Bringing Onyx and its capabilities into
Pulsant is the latest step in our targeted
acquisition strategy. The acquisition
increases the scale of our business
and the breadth of services we can
offer, which is crucial as multi-cloud
environments become more complex
and more important.”
Pulsant’s position as a provider
of hybrid IT services will be greatly
increased, with expanded reach in
the UK to deliver more options for
resiliency and solutions to customers.
The promises to customers are;
better opportunities for resilience and
reliability, enhanced regional reach
with 15 UK data centres and expanded
capabilities and services. n
BICSI president visits
Networks Centre
Networks Centre was privileged to host the BICSI president, Brian Ensign
and BICSI Director of Global Developments & Support, Paul Weintraub
while in they visited the UK for the BICSI conference in June.
As the only BICSI Authorised Design Training Provider (ADTP) in Europe,
Networks Centre has developed a dedicated training centre, literature
and training competencies to facilitate BICSI RCDD. This is the flagship
qualification for network infrastructure designers, and is offered by
Networks Centre alongside a portfolio of related training courses by City &
Guilds, Capitoline, Square Mile and manufacturer specific courses.
Brian and Paul were able to witness a BICSI RCDD training course
that was being delivered by a BICSI Certified Trainer. They were most
impressed with the whole setup, remarking that in conjunction with the
success of the conference, it marked a new chapter in the evolution of
BICSI in the UK. Keith Sawyer, Technical Services Director commented,
“Hosting such prestigious visitors is a landmark for our training academy
which we are continually developing to meet the growing demands of our
customers.” n
New congatec
Server-on-Modules
for real-time media
processing
congatec has announced two new Serveron-Modules designed specially for real-time
media processing. The conga-TS170 Serveron-Modules are based on the latest Intel
Xeon E3-1578L and E3-1558 processors. And
feature integrated Intel Iris Pro Graphics
accelerated by 128MB eDRAM, with double
graphics base frequency for transcoding and
video processing performance.
Software support is provided by the Media
Studio Server package, and new conga-TS170
Server-on-Modules come with complete
Board Support Packages, comprehensive
driver support and instantly application ready
carrierboards and evaluation kits.
The two main areas of application for these
modules are Edge and fog computers for
industrial IoT applications, and where densely
packed servers are used for high-quality video
transcoding. The aim is to provide end users
with the best experience. n
CMS Distribution to offer complete range of data protection
solutions for hybrid local and cloud environments
Hybrid cloud data protection software company Acronis is expanding its UK and Ireland distribution agreement with CMS Distribution. This
will make the latest Acronis hybrid cloud data protection solutions, including backup, cloud storage, disaster recovery, and file sync & share
solutions, available to the CMS Distribution cloud reseller network.
As data volume is continues to increase alongside a growth in digital business processes, the real and present threat of problems and
cybercrime such as Ransomware, data backup and protection are critical requirements. The aim of the new partnership is to fulfill the
growing demand for cloud data protection in the UK. And with 50% of businesses are expected to move all IT assets off-premise in the
future (UK Cloud Industry Forum 2015) it’s more important than ever.
Frank Salmon, CEO & Founder at CMS Distribution said. “As the adoption rates of cloud services is healthily growing among our reseller
network, expanding our portfolio offering with a key partner such as Acronis was a simple decision.” He added. “Together we are committed
to enhance partner profitability and provide highly flexible cloud solutions designed for service providers in order to always remain
competitive within every opportunity.” n
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