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Kiwi Stories

Infrastructure stories

KiwiRail back on track

Reopening of the Main North Line helped lift KiwiRail's half-year revenue 12% to GBP £328.8 million and surplus to GBP £16.3 million.

By Staff Writer • 4 min read • Fri, 22nd Feb 2019

National Party

Gaps in infrastructure pipeline 'causing headaches'

Road contractors warn a nearly GBP £3 billion roading shortfall over two years is delaying jobs and leaving crews idle across New Zealand.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Sun, 17th Feb 2019

Supply Chain

CHASNZ’s three-part strategy to reform health and safety in construction

More than 70,000 assessments have already been carried out as the trust pushes for a unified safety benchmark across New Zealand construction.

By Michael Curreen • 4 min read • Sun, 27th Jan 2019

Oil and Gas

Ultra-flat high tonnage cylinders from Enerpac feature low height and safety protection for harsh conditions

Confined-space lifting gets safer, as stop rings and nitrocarburised surfaces help protect 10-100 ton cylinders in harsh sites.

By Michael Curreen • 3 min read • Thu, 24th Jan 2019

Global Stories

Infrastructure stories

DataCentre infrastructure

Lenovo DCG to launch new edge server similar in size to a laptop

The company has unveiled its new server which is a result of its continued investment in solutions supporting IoT and edge computing.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Sat, 23rd Feb 2019

Hyperscale

French cloud giant sets up shop in two APAC data centres

OVH Infrastructure has expanded its public cloud services in the Asia Pacific (APAC) market operating from two data centres within the region.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 22nd Feb 2019

Hyperscale

Why NSP adoption of ECX Fabric is on the rise

Equinix reports a surge in NSP adoption of ECX Fabric, driven by the demand for on-demand, private multicloud connectivity from providers like AWS and Azure.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Thu, 21st Feb 2019

Virtualisation

Veeam achieves backup certification for SAP HANA

Veeam Software has launched a certified plugin for SAP HANA, offering customers a backup and recovery solution.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Wed, 20th Feb 2019

DataCentre infrastructure

Lenovo launches new IT infrastructure-as-a-service offering

Customers can now use and pay for data centre hardware and services - on-premise or at a customer-preferred location - without having to purchase the equipment.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 13th Feb 2019

Private Cloud

Hybrid cloud adoption accelerating in healthcare

In just two years, healthcare providers' hybrid cloud deployments are set to almost double from 19 percent penetration to 37 percent.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 12th Feb 2019

Storage

Interview: Emerging trends for a sustainable data centre industry

SPIE UK's Peter Westwood discusses the various technologies emerging both now and in the future to boost energy efficiency among data centres.

By Ashton Young • 5 min read • Mon, 11th Feb 2019

Unified Communications

Sunshine Coast submarine cable landing station underway

The submarine cable will help deliver the fastest data and telecoms connection to Asia from the east coast of Australia.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Mon, 11th Feb 2019

Open source

The Linux Foundation welcomes 22 new members

The Linux Foundation welcomes 22 new members, including Hyundai and BTS Digital, to support open source development and innovation.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Mon, 4th Feb 2019

DataCentre infrastructure

Lenovo and its partners making HCI easy for data centres

Lenovo's new HCI solution provides the benefits of traditional converged systems with the addition of a software-defined scale-out architecture.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 1st Feb 2019

Network Infrastructure

Silver Peak appoints new VP of sales for APJ

Silver Peak hires Dean Vaughan as VP of sales for Asia Pacific and Japan as it expands into the region and pursues market leadership in SD-WAN.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Wed, 30th Jan 2019

Network Infrastructure

Silver Peak hits big four with Google Cloud agreement

Silver Peak is the only SD-WAN vendor to partner with all four leading public cloud providers – Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Wed, 23rd Jan 2019

DevOps

InfluxData aims to accelerate growth with new sales executives

InfluxData appoints Jim Walsh as SVP of Engineering and Will Paulus as VP of Sales, aiming to drive global expansion and strengthen its leadership team.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Mon, 21st Jan 2019