May 22, 2018

Black Box launches ‘Acuity’ micro data centers

The launch seeks to provide cost-effective data center solutions with high speed and efficiency in case of emergency situations.

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Data center company Black Box have launched ‘Acuity’ micro data centers in a bid to provide cost-effective solutions to their enterprise clients. With this launch, Black Box say that they will be facilitating high speed and efficiency services to customers, especially in emergency situations.

According to Black Box, enterprises need data center services 24/7 when mission-critical workloads are at stake. They say that high server uptime and security are key parameters for enterprises to benchmark the performance of their data center services.

With the launch of ‘Acuity’ data centers, Black Box claim that they will be catering to the needs of high speed as well as efficiency in terms of services. They also say that with this launch, customers will be able to set up and deliver critical communications, applications, and information from anywhere in the world in a matter of hours.

Black Box say that in case of emergencies like natural disasters or harsh operating environments, increased efficiency could make the difference for the business. Speaking about the launch, Ken Kincel, Product Director of Edge Data Solutions at Black Box, commented:

The design of the Acuity edge solution ensures complete agility within the system.

Acuity not only provides speed and efficiency but delivers substantial cost savings compared to current systems where it can take days or weeks to get emergency data center services up and running.

Furnished with state-of-the-art facilities, Black Box say that the micro data centers will enable unified capabilities (voice, video, chat, and presence), identity management, session migration, load balancing and failover and secure vector routing. Explaining this, Jeff Murray, Senior Vice President – Government Solutions at Black Box, said:

The Acuity Micro Data Center can be outfitted and customized for a myriad of applications and operating systems.

The core system is equipped and configured to offer complete voice and data communications in a DIL environment with access to applications as predefined by the mission leaders for each environment. Acuity is not like any other product on the market as it delivers a Capability out of the gate.