REYKJAVIK, May 31, 2018 — Opin Kerfi and UberCloud have announced a partnership which enables Opin Kerfi’s customers to gain instant access to world-leading engineering simulation software and UberCloud’s customers to source their compute power from powerful and sustainably fueled Iceland.

Opin Kerfi have since 1985 offered IT services and solutions to domestic and international customers, providing substantial financial benefits due to the green, low-cost energy grid especially to high-performance computing users. Previously offering co-location and dedicated services, Opin Kerfi now offer completely subscription-based cloud- and Software-as-a-Service solutions through the link to UberCloud, who makes it easy for engineers to run sophisticated software from ANSYS, Dassault Systèmes, SIEMENS and more on powerful cloud hardware using UberCloud’s unique HPC container technology.

This partnership and portfolio expansion is not only valuable to current customers but also appeals to a much wider spectrum of prospects as a subscription-based and managed approach is commonly preferred by both small and large businesses. Customers can use this extra capacity to research, design, experiment and simulate as fast as they need, when they need it.

Computer Aided Engineering simulation, product research, design and testing has been transformed by the power of supercomputing and the virtual laboratory. Opin Kerfi and UberCloud are looking forward to empowering businesses accelerate their time to market with this new HPC cloud solution based in optimal environmetal conditions in Iceland.

Both Opin Kerfi and UberCloud are attending the ISC2018 conference in Frankfurt on June 24th-28th. Opin

Kerfi are leading a team from Iceland to promote the country as a datacenter location where UberCloud’s solutions will be demonstrated as part of the offering.

For more information visit https://opinkerfi.is/en/solutions-2/software-as-a-service/ and https://www.TheUberCloud.com

About Opin Kerfi

Opin Kerfi is one of the leading enterprise IT solution providers in Iceland. Providing clients with a wide variety of options through the solid network of partners such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, UberCloud, FUJITSU, Cisco, RedHat and many more, the team has consistently achieved success in digital transformation for customers domestically and abroad. Opin Kerfi especially focus on enabling overseas businesses challenge their industries by running their IT hyper-efficiently in Iceland. With reference cases from BMW and Volkswagen, Opin Kerfi are continuing to advance in being the High Performance Computing Service Provider for mainland Europe.

About UberCloud

UberCloud is the online Community, Marketplace, and Software Container Factory where engineers, scientists, and their service providers, discover, try, and buy ubiquitous high-performance computing power and Software-as-a-Service, from Cloud resource providers and application software vendors around the world. UberCloud’s unique high-performance software container technology simplifies software packageability and portability, enables ease of access and instant use of engineering SaaS solutions, and maintains scalability across multiple compute nodes.

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Source: Opin Kerfi