Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 32 | Page 18

NEWS 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 18 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com