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Lotus to establish new advanced
technology centre at University of
Warwick’s Wellesbourne campus
Lotus has announced a dedicated and specialist advanced
technology centre, which will also be home to a new headquarters
for the company’s engineering consultancy.
Located on the University of Warwick’s Wellesbourne Campus,
the new facility is established in partnership with WMG at the
University of Warwick. WMG is an international leader in successful
collaboration between academic research, teaching, training and
Artist’s impression
of the new
Lotus advanced
technology centre
industry. The substantial facility consists of offices, workshops and
laboratory space with ample opportunity for expansion.
Initially, 130 engineers will move in, complementing the 500-strong
engineering team at the home of Lotus Cars in Hethel, Norfolk. Matt
Windle, Executive Director, Engineering, Lotus Cars, said: “This is a
big step forward for Lotus and our engineering consultancy. The new
space, facilities and job opportunities at Wellesbourne will be in great
demand as we rapidly build our portfolio of external projects.
“Our team and specialist skills have grown significantly in the last
two years as renewed impetus has been put in to the business with
new shareholders and management. The all-electric Evija hypercar
is the first new Lotus Cars product for us to deliver, with significant
focus on this at Wellesbourne as we complete the project and
continue to advance its technologies for our future programmes.”
Nadhim Zahawi MP, the UK government’s Business and Industry
Minister, said: “The West Midlands has long been the beating
heart of the UK’s automotive and engineering industries and this
announcement is further evidence that this proud history
will continue.”
Rahi Systems and Infinidat target enterprise
industry with a new strategic partnership
Rahi Systems, a global IT solution provider, and Infinidat,
a prominent ground-breaking data storage provider, have
announced a strategic partnership that will offer high-end
enterprises access to a range of innovative data storage pricing
models. ‘Pay-As-You-Grow’ is one of the key models that will allow
for flexibility in data capacity and data management planning,
while removing the perpetual issue of available capacity that can
impede an organisation’s ability to grow and remain agile.
and platforms will need to be supported and work to bring those
solutions to market now,” said Lee Bushnell, Channel Manager
UK&I at Infinidat.
The model works in a simplistic yet very effective way. For example,
if an enterprise requires 300 terabytes of storage, Infinidat and
Rahi Systems will actually deploy 1 petabyte on-premises but
the customer will only pay for the 300TB they need – Capacity
on Demand (COD). Based on the growth of the organisation’s
storage requirements, the billing levels can then be adapted
accordingly. This not only makes accurate forecasting possible but
it also delivers the additional benefit to a business of being able to
future-proof its data storage demands. It results in organisations,
accessing and drawing down increased capacity, as needed.
“A vital part of exploring the market with new technology partners
is ascertaining what’s going to be demanded in the longer term, so
we can imagine how the next generation of use cases, applications
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