NEWS
EkkoSense appoints senior data centre sector
business development leader
kkoSense, a leading M&E capacity planning, monitoring
and simulation specialist for critical live environments,
has appointed data centre sector business development
leader Adrian Barker as its Key Account Director. Barker joins
EkkoSense from global critical infrastructure solutions firm Vertiv,
where as Senior Director for Business Development he was
responsible for executing the company’s solutions strategy and
driving growth across the entire Vertiv portfolio.
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Before that he spent seven years with RF Code, building the team
that delivered the company’s first US$1m+ account in the EMEA
region before serving as RF Code’s General Manager for EMEA.
In his new role Barker will be responsible for providing key
account management and sales leadership to EkkoSense’s UK
and international operations. He will also be instrumental in
developing the company’s relationship with key partners such
as CBRE, where EkkoSense is a global PSA supplier. Barker will
report directly to EkkoSense CEO Dean Boyle.
Barker said: “EkkoSense is growing rapidly, providing powerful
software-driven thermal optimisation solutions for critical live
environments and I’m excited to be joining the business at such
an important stage in its development.”
Adrian Barker has
been appointed Key
Account Director
at EkkoSense
HOSTKEY deploys processors for customers
for powerful performance
MD and HOSTKEY, a leading
cloud solutions company
representing clients across
Europe, Russia and North America,
has announced the release of AMD
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EPYCTM processor-based servers
across HOSTKEY’s infrastructure. This
new deployment of AMD EPYC CPUs
offers differentiated features, core-count,
connectivity and memory bandwidth to
HOSTKEY customers running virtualised
environments and high-performance
computing workloads.
The new HOSTKEY platform uses the
16-core AMD EPYC 7281 and 24-core
EPYC 7401P processors delivered on
Gigabyte platforms, which have support
for up to eight channels of RDIMM/
LRDIMM DDR4 memory and 128 lanes
of ultra-fast PCIe Gen3 x4 connections
to support increased user demand.
“AMD EPYC processors in single or
dual-socket configurations enable
HOSTKEY to provide a greater variety of
services to our customers, expanding
upon the available options for their
processing needs,” said Anton Malina,
Head of the Netherlands Datacenter
Infrastructure. “As a leading provider of
services in the regions we support, we
are excited to work with a leader in the
data centre industry, AMD, to make the
performance of AMD EPYC available.”
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