Clustering for high availability and HPC

Preventing unplanned downtime in the datacentre is crucial to your organisation's business operations. To ensure the highest availability possible, check out the advice and news on high-availability (HA) clustering in this section, including information on backup, redundancy, failover and HA testing. Also, get the latest on using high-performance computing (HPC) clustering to handle heavy processing demands.

March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22
Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have opened Sweden’s first large-scale HPC hub

Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have pulled off a country first by opening a renewbly-powered HPC datacentre hub in Stockholm, Sweden
March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22
SingHealth researchers to get new supercomputer

Healthcare researchers at SingHealth can look forward to a new supercomputer to support their work
March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22
Kao Data expands Harlow datacentre campus by opening second 10MW facility

Kao Data has begun the build-out of its second datacentre on the site of its Harlow campus several months after securing £130m in additional funding to support its expansion
February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22
NetApp provides data infrastructure for EMBL

European Molecular Biology Laboratory uses NetApp to enable researchers to share and process high-end electron microscopy data

Sharp end of the edge: Managing micro-datacentres in a shared environment

Ongoing diversification in datacentre types gives rise to management challenges for operators, prompting a rethink about how they run their sites Continue Reading
Evolving datacentre chipsets put cooling, power and software management techniques under microscope

New processor designs that could revolutionise approaches to supporting higher power densities at the rack still look years away, it appears Continue Reading
Could Iceland be the best place in the world for high-performance computing?

Most of Iceland’s cheap, sustainable energy is currently used by aluminium smelters, but recognising the need to diversify, the Landsvirkjun power company now promotes other uses Continue Reading

10 years on, and HPC is taken for granted

In recent weeks we’ve looked back at several areas of IT. In many, we concluded that while today may look technically very different from yesterday, that’s just superficial: the underlying ... Continue Reading
The generation gap: Why legacy datacentres are not a good fit for HPC

In this guest post, Spencer Lamb, vice president of Harlow-based colocation firm Kao Data, sets out why legacy datacentres may struggle to accommodate the growing demand for HPC workloads The ... Continue Reading
Where HPC lives: The London-to-Cambridge UK Innovation Corridor

In this guest post, Spencer Lamb, vice president of Harlow-based colocation provider Kao Data, discusses how HPC datacentres are aiding the fight against Covid-19 All science is data-driven: ... Continue Reading

Life on the edge: The benefits of using micro datacentres

Enterprises are demanding faster access to applications and ever more processing power. Could edge datacentres fill the gap? Continue Reading

2017 IT Priority Study: Trends in the EMEA converged/hyper-converged market

Find out what converged and hyper-converged initiatives IT decision makers are planning in 2017