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Covid-19 drives compute off-site

The puzzler doing the rounds goes like this: Who led your company’s digital transformation? The CEO, the CTO, the CIO or Covid-19? The reality is, of course, that for many companies it has been the latter. Digital transformation plans, including transitions to cloud computing have been underway for years, but the global pandemic has accelerated […]

Putting our customers first – our new portal

This month marks my first full year at Kao Data. I joined the company back in June 2019 as their Customer Implementation Manager and prior to this I spent 9 years working for one of the dominant European colocation providers, as part of a 16 year IT-industry experience which has enabled me to see the […]

The UK Innovation Corridor’s connection to high performance computing

The Innovation Corridor is home to some of the largest research facilities in the UK with a number of research campuses developed over the last 30 years. Enterprise research teams are now located alongside the publicly funded institutions such as Cambridge University, The Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute and EMBL-EBI. Growth in this region has outpaced […]

HPC Innovators – Dr Steven Newhouse, EMBL-EBI

Dr Steven Newhouse is the Head of Technical Services at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). He has previously held roles in the leadership of European Grid Infrastructure activities and was a Program Manager in the High Performance Computing (HPC) group in the Windows server division at Microsoft. Dr Newhouse’s role today involves managing teams that […]

Introducing Kao Data’s new look

Today signifies a new stage in the growth of the Kao Data brand. With our first data centre now fully operational and already home to a number of high performance computing, artificial intelligence and enterprise customers, our focus now shifts to accelerating our commercial partnerships throughout 2020, and developing the rest of our campus. This […]

Can the networks take it?

Can the networks take it?  As people settle into home-based work and leisure, the world’s networks have adapted phenomenally well to a radical shift in traffic patterns. The Internet was designed to handle rapidly changing demands, but in the last couple of months it was hit by an unprecedented challenge. Due to the pandemic, people […]

Can AI and Digital Twins future-proof data centre designs?

The explosion in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications has fast become a fundamental game changer for many industries across the globe. From weather prediction and climate change modelling, to bio-computational analysis and life science exploration, the requirement to process complex data sets faster and with higher fault-tolerance, is a key driver for equipment manufacturers, data centres […]

HPC’s vital role in tackling Covid-19

Less than five months ago, the novel coronavirus (formally known as SARS-CoV-2) was unknown. By 1st May, at the time of writing, Covid-19 – the disease caused by the novel coronavirus – has claimed the lives of almost a quarter of a million people, and has changed the lives of billions as it has spread […]

Safe Cardholder Data Assured with Latest Security Compliance

Safe Cardholder Data Assured with Latest Security Compliance We recently hosted a breakfast event at the campus with one of our on-site partners -ServerChoice. Kao Data would like to take this opportunity to convey a huge thank you to everyone that took time out of their busy schedules to support the event and helped create […]

Capability and Innovation Drive Change and Opportunity

How Digital Transformation is Changing our Industry Our industry is changing rapidly, the majority of new build data centres have moved away from the monolithic over resourced warehouses. The era of redundant technical space, over resourced power, complex and expensive mechanical equipment for keeping the IT suites cool and the lights on, is finally making […]

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