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Datacentrix advances Lenovo certification with
Authorised Service Partner accreditation
Datacentrix, a high performing and secure ICT solutions provider,
has extended its partnership with hardware technology
company, Lenovo, adding the title of Authorised Service Partner
(ASP) to its existing Tier 1 Platinum Partner certifications for
Lenovo’s PC Group (PCG) and Datacentre Group (DCG). The company
is now one of only two South African Tier 1 Platinum Partners to also
be named as an ASP.
“Datacentrix has enjoyed a close working relationship with Lenovo
in South Africa for many years, and it was a natural next step for us
to add the ASP certification to our existing qualifications,” explained
Shawn Marx, Datacentrix Business Unit Manager for Converged
Solutions. “The new accreditation allows us to deepen client
interactions, providing local businesses with an end-to-end Lenovo
offering – from presales right through to break/fix services.”
Datacentrix has used the lockdown period constructively to
bolster its skills base, completing more than 630 vendor-related
certifications since the end of March to mid-May, including the
Lenovo ASP accreditation.
“Datacentrix’s excellent service delivery is already in place and by
using this time to upskill within lockdown, we have completed the
requisite training to position ourselves as trusted advisors and create
Lenovo customers for life,” Marx added.
Spot achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator certification
for its serverless container engine Ocean
Spot, a leading provider of software
for modern CloudOps, has announced
that Ocean by Spot has achieved Red Hat
Operator certification for OpenShift.
Using Ocean on Red Hat OpenShift,
companies have access to a fully managed
data plane service to run pods and
containers without the burden of having
to deal with maintaining, patching, scaling,
securing and life cycling the underlying
worker nodes infrastructure. The Ocean by
Spot Kubernetes Operator running on Red
Hat OpenShift allows CloudOps teams to
focus on building and managing applications
rather than managing the infrastructure of
their Kubernetes environments.
Ocean by Spot is a proven Kubernetes
data plane service that provides a
serverless infrastructure engine for running
containers. Building on Spot’s advanced
predictive analytics and automation,
Ocean continuously monitors and analyses
compute infrastructure to understand
and predict pod, container and application
resource needs. Using this analysis, Ocean
continuously optimises cloud resource
allocation in real time, ensuring dependable
performance, fast scalability and up to 90%
lower cloud infrastructure costs.
The Spot certified operator for OpenShift
provides a new way of controlling an Ocean
group from the Kubernetes cluster. This
operator allows DevOps teams to create,
configure and manage Ocean clusters by
working with standard Kubernetes API. With
the operator, users can now create, update,
delete and monitor an Ocean group from an
existing OpenShift cluster, using standard
kubectl commands.
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