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Siemon appoints new President and CEO

The Siemon Company, a leading global network infrastructure specialist, has appointed Henry Siemon as the company’s new President and CEO, effective 01 January 2021. Carl Siemon, who has served as President and CEO since 1982, will continue to serve on the board of directors and will work with Henry and the leadership team as a strategic advisor. Henry becomes the fifth CEO in Siemon’s 118-year history and establishes a fifth generation of stable family leadership.

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Your data centre may not be dead, but it's morphing

As interconnected services continue to proliferate, with increases in cloud providers, edge services and SaaS offerings, the rationale to stay only in a traditional data centre topology has limited advantages. This is not an overnight shift, but a change in thinking how we deliver services to our customers and to the business. This trend, coupled with the new reality that external factors might limit physical access to data centres (such as emergency quarantine), is driving new thinking on how...

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WAN Confusion: Why WAN Data Acceleration isn’t

WAN optimisation or SD-WAN WAN optimisation and SD-WAN vendors tend to talk about cost-efficiencies, scalability, virtual flexibility, their ability to accelerate any application despite the limitations of TCP/IP, being cloud-ready, industry-leading. In addition, it’s about being able to accelerate any application despite the inhibitions created by latency and packet loss. They are indeed great technologies, and each one has their purpose, but they often fail to live up to expectations –...

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Outside the four walls of the data centre

Almost four in 10 people in the EU began working remotely in the first few months of 2020, according to a study carried out by Eurofund. This is a seismic shift considering that the amount of people who regularly worked remotely before the pandemic took hold ranged from as low as 6% to as high as 23%, depending on country. By Michael Cade, Senior Global Technologist, Veeam.

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Cloud provider spend jumps; enterprise declines

New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that worldwide spend on data center hardware and software nudged upwards by 2% from the third quarter of 2019, thanks entirely to a 21% jump in spending on public cloud infrastructure, which pushed it to an all-time high.

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STULZ offers next generation climate control

STULZ CabinetAir PRT with direct free cooling helps telecommunications cabinets beat the heat.

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Chayora, a Hong Kong-based data centre infrastructure company, has chosen Keysource as its lead...
Patch panels from any vendor can now be equipped with intelligence.
maincubes, a European data center owner/operator with ‘German-engineered’ facilities located in...
Joint offer enables IT Professionals to overcome challenges associated with distributed...
New wired and wireless network consolidates and transforms operations to underpin mission-critical...
In a strategic move aimed at further expansion in the European market, Methode Electronics'...
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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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