Pioneering projects
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“ If you can have a selfdriving car , why can ’ t you have a selfdriving data centre ?”
– Tor Bjorn Minde , CEO , RISE SICS North application platforms .” At ICE , clients can test their innovations in a riskfree environment with the added service of being able to measure hundreds of environmental factors .
Pioneering projects
Despite being established just 18 months ago , much progress has already been made by RISE SICS North . “ We are now at € 1.8mn a year in turnover and we have 11 persons right now that work here ,” notes Minde . “ Our scientific leader is Jon
Summers . He is from the University of Leeds – he started up Data Centre Alliance and is behind the Data Centre Transformation Conferences .” At present the facility is working on four major projects . “ There is one project on data centre automation . If you can have a self-driving car , why can ’ t you have a self-driving data centre ?” Minde comments . “ The machine learning algorithm already can perform lots of activities , complex identification problems much better than humans .
“ The long-term mission is to come
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