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Iguazio teams up with Boston

Posted on June 16, 2021 by - News

Iguazio, a data science & MLOps platform build firm, announced a partnership with Boston Limited, an Nvidia Elite Partner and leading provider of high‐performance, mission-critical server and storage .

The partnership enables both companies to extend their offerings to enterprises across industries looking to bring data science into real-life applications, regardless of the size or skill set of their internal teams.

Iguazio CEO and co‐founder Asaf Somekh said that companies need better ways to implement their AI solutions in real‐world environments, to help them cut costs, work more efficiently, and accelerate the rollout of new AI services and products for customers.

“This radical shift to transforming business models with AI typically requires highly customisable infrastructure, as well as a streamlined data science workflow to navigate the transformation effectively and efficiently”, he said.

Boston distributes Swiss Prime

Posted on August 27, 2020 by - News

Boston Limited will include Prime Computer in its product portfolio and distribute the Swiss manufacturer’s IT hardware solutions in the UK and Ireland.

Prime Computer’s fanless design in servers are used in a wide range of operating environments across a variety of sectors including hospitality, medical practices, and hospitals. The products are silent with no other mechanical parts generating noise. As many businesses currently rely on digital services, Prime Computer products are designed to provide continuous operation and reliability for all business needs.

Prime’s chief sales officer Bianca Brinker said: “Prime Computer is determined to further expand its presence in the UK and Ireland, enhancing the status of the Prime Computer brand as the leading Swiss manufacturer of energy-saving, passively cooled mini-PCs and servers, including our brand new PrimeMini IoT.

Boston prepares Panasas ActiveStor Ultra product line

Posted on July 15, 2020 by - News

HPC integration specialists Boston has completed testing and certification of the Panasas ActiveStor Ultra product line, readying the turnkey HPC storage appliance for distribution to its customer base throughout the US, EMEA and APAC.

Boston is a distributor and integrator for ActiveStor Ultra, providing customised HPC product and service solutions including installation, configuration and support services globally.

Boston distributes Nvidia Rapids

Posted on June 10, 2019 by - News

Boston announced the first European offering for Nvidia Rapid test drives.

The move brings Nvidia Rapids, a suite of open-source software libraries giving data scientists the freedom to execute end-to-end data science and analytics pipelines entirely on GPU. The result is a cluster of Nvidia T4 GPU-optimised servers running a variety of Rapids frameworks available to customer and data scientists looking to accelerate and scale out their frameworks working in Python.

Boston Networks swallows 2020 Vision Systems

Posted on December 14, 2018 by - News

Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider Boston Networks has written a cheque for Newcastle-based 2020 Vision Systems.

The Glasgow-based VAR has undertaken a strategy to establish itself as the UK in “network-enabled smart integrated technologies to improve the performance safety and security of buildings, campuses, and cities.”

2020 Vision specialises in IP-enabled security technology and video surveillance and has a strong presence across the North-East, including an office in Birmingham.

The deal brings the headcount of the Boston Group to 170 after it previously acquired London-based audiovisual solutions provider PEL Services in April.

Scott McEwan, Boston Networks CEO, said: “We look forward to using 2020’s many years of experience of working in key areas of critical physical security, which will help us to drive towards the next phase of our growth as we continue to focus on applying technology to improve the performance, safety, and security of people, buildings and assets. In particular, this acquisition further deepens our services in the further education sector, enhances our existing security offering through the cloud platform and significantly spreads our geographic coverage.”

Greig Brown chairman of Boston Networks said that the latest acquisition is a strong fit for the VAR.

“In addition to the complementary solutions offering and strong management team, it is a significant step forward in our plan to create a national provider of integrated life safety, security and networking services, in key sectors, specifically targeting mid-market UK-based Blue-Chip companies.”

 

Boston signs distie deal with Mellanox

Posted on August 14, 2013 by - News

bostonskylineBoston Limited has just signed a distribution deal with Mellanox Technologies to sell the latter’s Infiniband and Ethernet Interconnect kit, as well as rigging it up with Boston’s own server and storage tech.

Boston hopes the contract will help its growth and development in offering high performance server and storage, especially as enterprises are after scalable options running with high performance and efficiencies.

Mellanox increases efficiency, the company says, by offering the highest throughput with the lowest latency to deliver data, quick, as well as using a system to the best of its capabilities. Interconnects like adapters, switches, software and silicon will all be on offer to optimise HPC, enterprise data, cloud, storage and financial services.

Mellanox’s Darrin Chen said adding Boston Limited as a distie partner will help the company “better address customers looking to achieve their performance”.

“Across EMEA, organisations are increasingly demanding new systems with the scalable and high performance interconnect products to increase application performance and business productivity,” Chen said.

The Mellanox products are available to buy from Boston now.