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Exciting news! We have expanded our #baremetal offering to include dedicated NVIDIA DGX servers with up to 16 V100 GPUs with 512GB of combined GPU memory at up to 70% lower costs than 3-year cloud pricing! Perfect for running Inference Engines, Generative AI (image/video), simultaneous ChatGPT sessions, and continuously training Small Language Models (SLMs). Control your data, your costs and your carbon through Cato's bare metal platform. ?? https://cato.ai #technology #innovation #sustainability #future #machinelearning #slm #enterprise #cloud #smalllanguagemodels #chatGPT #llm #inference #generativeAI | Dean Nelson | Yuval Bachar | ECL | Jesse Fulton | Valentin G. | Karimulla Shaikh | Simon Allen | Robert Dugdale | Amber Caramella | Peter Gross, PE | Dave Johnson | iMasons Climate Accord

Looking forward to this panel next week ??My 1st OCP regional summit ??

Cato Digital is now a recognised OCP Solution Provider. The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) is a global community whose mission is to design, use, and enable mainstream delivery of the most efficient designs for scalable computing. OCP provides a structure in which individuals and organisations can share their intellectual property with others to encourage the IT industry to evolve. In designing commodity hardware that is more efficient, flexible, and scalable, we’re redefining tech infrastructure. A commitment to excellence keeps OCP at the forefront of the open source compute movement. ? Cato Digital?leverages second life OCP hardware, stranded data center power capacity and clean energy to provide low cost, low carbon, modern hybrid cloud architecture. ? On demand, ready to use servers for any requirement - large or small. ? Easily spin up and tear down instances as needed ? Scale your applications on demand without needing dedicated infrastructure ? Scalable architecture, where workloads are distributed across multiple environments ? Services are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. ? Circular economy ocp hardware ? Compute powered by?unused capacity & clean energy ? ? the cost of traditional cloud providers For more information:?https://cato.digital/ To request pricing, a test server or general enquiry:?[email protected] #circulareconomy?#technology?#innovation?#sustainability?#scope3?#OCP

Cato Digital will be at the OCP Regional Summit next month and joining the panel - Boosting Innovation: The Role of Startups and VC in the OCP Ecosystem Today, the data center industry is at a pivotal moment. The market calls for solving emerging industry challenges to support the increasing demands for compute loads (eg. AI and HPC) and to meet the requirements of sustainability regulations. A way to boost innovation and to come up with new solutions and opportunities is through open collaboration between startups, venture capital (VC) and industry. For this panel, we invited four guest speakers from fast-growing startups and a European private equity firm to talk about the role of entrepreneurship, startups and VC in the OCP Ecosystem. The panel discussion will cover data center innovation and growth opportunities (eg.?data center cost optimization, power and cooling, sustainable solutions and heat-reuse)?as well as some of the industry challenges that startups have to solve for. Among those challenges are the rapidly changing markets and environmental regulations, the supply chain disruptions, customer demands for rapid deployment of new technologies and finally, the search for funding and investment opportunities. Rob Lawson-Shanks Paul Benoit Maxime Mallet Lesya Dymyd See the full schedule here:?bit.ly/43CRTPo Learn more and register here:?bit.ly/3m3vJEk #circulareconomy?#technology?#innovation?#sustainability?#scope3?#quantumcomputing #OCP

A fascinating visit to?Evoque-Cyxtera?who, together with Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), have launched the world’s first commercial Quantum Computer at?Evoque-Cyxtera?LHR3 data centre in Reading, UK. The project actually won the?DatacenterDynamics "European Data Center Project of the Year".?I didn't get to see the Quantum Computer but above is an image from the OQC website.?Evoque-Cyxtera?also has a very cool AI Quantum Centre of Excellence at LHR3 - which I did get to see. ? Whilst Cato Digital Bare Metal may not be offering Quantum Bare Metal just yet - we do have high performance, enterprise quality Application, Storage and GPU servers - all at 1/2 the price of cloud and engineered to be the lowest possible carbon. ? Cato’s low cost, low carbon Bare Metal will be in all the right locations and is growing its presence across the USA?(currently in West and East coast US and Africa) with plans to expand into Europe and APAC ?? Big thanks to?Charlie Bernard?for showing me around. #circulareconomy?#technology?#innovation?#sustainability?#scope3?#quantumcomputing

OPENCON24 - The UK's Open Technology Conference - was held this week Feb 6th and 7th. Great atmosphere, content, organization etc etc.?simply brilliant.?Also - high quality tea bags. It’s the detail that makes the difference??? I was privileged to be on the OCP Panel with Deborah Andrews Mark Dansie Astrid Wynne Rogers MIEMA, CEnv "Achieving DC Sustainability Through Open Hardware" moderated by Lesya Dymyd We discussed the need for an agreed carbon accounting methodology that encourages leveraging circular economy hardware. I think we had the right people on the panel to start connecting the dots and making real progress on this. Also thanks Kat Burdett for offering to benchmark Cato Digital's recycled OCP hardware ?? #circulareconomy #technology?#innovation?#sustainability?#scope3?

This article from Peter Judge at DatacenterDynamics shows we’ve got a long way to go on #carbonaccounting. If a company buys a #secondlife system, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) requires the company to absorb the entire carbon footprint of the product, even if the previous owner has already added it to their own reporting. This accounting approach can make some new equipment purchases “lower carbon cost” than second life equipment. I understand the motivation to push companies to run equipment longer, but it is counter productive to the circular economy and will drive the wrong behavior. Their result will be that we build more than we should and inadvertently increase carbon. #circulareconomy is a critical contributor to the decarbonization of #digitalinfrastructure. At Cato Digital we are fully committed to a carbon free future by embracing second life equipment. Ohh, and by the way it is half the cost of cloud. ?? Article: https://lnkd.in/gFB7sb8f Zero Sum Game: https://lnkd.in/g-cFcckc #technology #innovation #sustainability #scope3 | Karimulla Shaikh | Simon Allen | Miranda G. Gardiner, LEED Fellow | Anna Timme | iMasons Climate Accord | Lex Coors | Charlie Sellars | Joshua Hatch | Rob Coyle | Open Compute Project Foundation | Noah Goldstein, Ph.D. | Sunni Wissmer | Jeff Omelchuck | Mislav Crnogorac | Christian Belady | Joseph Kava | Eric Wilcox | Rachel Peterson | Curt Belusar | Mark Dickerson | Spas Lazarov |

Very much looking forward to our panel at OpenUK next week ?? Thanks Deborah Andrews Astrid Wynne Rogers MIEMA, CEnvMark Dansie Lesya Dymyd Cato Digital Open Compute Project Foundation Techbuyer #climatechange?#sustainability?#decarbonization?#netzero?#baremetal?#circulareconomy?#scope3emissions?