Intersect 360’s latest market update: HPC and Generative AI are growing at a phenomenal rate.
Two phrases that have become inextricably linked over the past two years are HPC (High Performance Computing) and AI (Artificial Intelligence). Both depend on the development of one another to enable growth in their retrospective markets. Yet, under the surface, each has specific technological requirements and drivers for change. Ahead of SC 2023 – the […]
Putting Kao Data in pole position
I have always enjoyed sitting down and watching Formula One racing at the weekend and this Sunday my son and I will be avidly watching the F1 season finale at Yas Marina – one of the calendar’s most spectacular circuits. In my younger days, I fancied myself as a race car driver, as many young […]
Crunch time for the UK’s National Data Strategy
The beginning of December saw the close of the consultation period on the UK Government’s National Data Strategy (NDS). Data – “information about people, things and systems”, as the policy paper defines it – is vital for everyone from online retailers and social network companies to Covid-19 researchers and transport planners. The UK’s data market […]
The Putty Blog – Welcome to Megaport!
As the man heading-up Kao Data’s drive to continually upgrade our campus’s network and carrier connections, I was thoroughly delighted this week to see us announce our new partnership with our friends at Megaport. Establishing new connectivity partners in a data centre is sometimes a tricky process, but in the case of Megaport it’s been […]
The Putty Blog – 5G is coming of age…
2020 has seen our personal and professional lives change beyond all recognition and our dependency on digital technologies has never been greater. Seamless connectivity with negligible jitter, latency, congestion and capacity issues on the telecoms and broadband networks is fundamental right now because for many it’s their only means of keeping in contact with the […]
Uptown and downtown – Being part of the city will always be crucial for data centres
Why would you put a data center in a city? It’s the exact opposite of what we’ve been doing for the last twenty years, but suddenly we are being told it’s essential. Let’s look at the reality… Enterprises have been shutting data centres, and moving to colocation, as well as switching physical servers for virtual […]
Power hungry: Why GPUs are taking over the data centre…
The rate of change within the technology space often brings with it feelings of excitement, anticipation and, in some cases, fear. Fresh into my new role at Kao Data, and with feelings predominantly of excitement, I thought it particularly appropriate to dive into the “core” of these technology advancements – please excuse the pun! In […]
Kao Data – High performance colocation for the UK’s advanced computing community
While challenging, the last fews months have really seen some tremendous developments for Kao Data and highlighting our progress we’ve have had some fantastic media coverage. This has shared what Kao Data is all about and how we can really help to make a difference, especially to advanced compute clusters within the Cambridge to London […]
Is water cooling finally flowing into the data centre?
Still using air to cool your servers? Boy, you’re out of date! By now, everyone’s using liquid cooling… Or at least they should be, according to a very authoritative prediction I had from an IBM systems consultant I spoke to in 2009. “We’ll see a return to liquid-cooling in most IT solutions,” he said, at […]
Four data centre trends for the future
With a world growing ever-hungrier for data and new applications evolving constantly, data centres are on the lookout for ways to move faster. Here are four trends to watch. Shares in big data centre companies such as Equinix and Digital Realty have boomed so far this year, with investors attracted by a surge in the […]