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ello and welcome to
the latest edition of
Intelligent Data Centres.
This month, our cover
story features Gulf
Bank, one of the leading
financial institutions in Kuwait, which
is utilising Dell Technology solutions to
enable its Digital Transformation project.
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The bank is using VPLEX and
RecoverPoint solutions to realise
efficient data management,
continuous data availability, seamless
mobility and accelerate data centre
modernisation, as well as Data Domain
and Deduplication Technology to speed
backups and reduce costs.
Osamah AlAbdullah, Deputy General
Manager – Information Technology at
Gulf Bank Kuwait, tells us why the bank
chose to work with Dell Technologies
and explains how the solutions are
helping to futureproof the organisation.
Meanwhile, in our first feature of the
month, we explore some of the key talking
points when it comes to data storage.
This is a key issue for the industry as the
volume of data produced and received by
organisations is only set to increase.
We find out how Manchester City
Council is leveraging the Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud Platform to create
an agile and scalable infrastructure,
achieving a lower total cost of
ownership, improved performance
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The council has ambitious plans to take
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meet the challenges of its increasingly
diverse and mobile population and
Mike Farrington, Technical Operations
Manager, Manchester City Council, tells
us more about how this is happening
from page 44.
And, as more organisations across
the region embark on data centre
modernisation projects, Mark O’Keefe,
Director of Architecture at CyrusOne,
talks us through some of the trends
shaping this modernisation and offers
best practice advice to those progressing
their own efforts in our ‘Expert Opinion’
from page 40.
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the latest news in the data centre sector,
while our ‘intelligent’ brands section looks
at what’s new in operations, infrastructure,
power and cooling, and facilities.
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