Weather outlook is sunny

Cray has signed a $36 million contract to upgrade and expand the Cray® XC™ supercomputers and Cray® Sonexion® storage system at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). When the project is completed, the enhanced systems will allow the world-class numerical weather prediction and research center to continue to drive improvements in its highly-complex models to provide more accurate weather forecasts.

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Economic recovery is rekindling interest for ICT investments among Spanish enterprises

A recent survey from Kable shows that 44% of enterprises in Spain have been planning to increase their overall ICT budget in 2015, an increase of 20% from 2014.

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Do IT Systems and Bright Computing partner for Italian HPC market

Italy-based Do IT Systems has signed up to the Bright Partner Programme.

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Building a modern data centre by the book

Three award-winning authors and technologists have published a new book, Building a Modern Data Center: Principles and Strategies of Design, that provides practical advice on how to use new technologies such as hyperconvergence, software-defined data centres and the cloud to meet the business challenges facing today’s IT organisations.

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Avnet in the UK is named Cisco EMEA Data Centre Distributor for 2015

Avnet wins top award for boosting Cisco’s growth in the data centre marketplace.

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AMD Opteron A1100 SoC joins the 64-Bit ARM data centre arena

AMD marks a major step toward delivering choice and innovation in the datacenter with the launch of the AMD Opteron™ A1100 System-on-Chip (SoC), formerly codenamed "Seattle." Jointly with its software and hardware partners, AMD is accelerating time-to-deployment of ARM®-based systems and driving forward ecosystem support for ARM in the datacenter.

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Three benefits of a converged infrastructure

ISG looked at the benefits of converged infrastructures, which combine data center components into centrally managed systems. NFLEX is a pre-configured converged infrastructure solution by NetApp and Fujitsu supporting all three ISG requirements.

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