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Neara enhances platform observability to support critical utility operations
ClickHouse, a leader in real-time analytics and observability, has announced that Neara, a pioneer in physics-enabled digital twin modelling for critical infrastructure, has adopted ClickHouse’ s managed observability offering, ClickStack, to help power its internal engineering observability stack.
Neara develops and maintains physics-based digital twins of electrical utility networks, enabling large-scale simulations that identify risks, including stressed poles, inadequate ground clearance and vegetation encroachment. Neara has customers across Australia, Europe and the US, including Ausgrid, Southern California Edison, ESB Networks and Scottish Power.
To support Neara’ s scaling engineer infrastructure, the company has consolidated its observability stack onto ClickStack, the highperformance platform providing engineers with complete visibility across logs, metrics and traces.
“ Since adopting ClickStack, Neara’ s engineering teams are resolving incidents more than 50 % faster, with complete visibility across seven terabytes of observability data each month, without the cost penalties that once came with capturing data at that volume,” said Paul Davis, Area Vice President Sales APAC, ClickHouse.
“ As our platform has grown, so has the complexity of running systems reliably at scale. Our goal, by introducing ClickStack, was to open observability across the engineering team, not just for a few specialists,” said Vasily Chekalkin, Neara Senior Staff Engineer.“ ClickStack gives our engineers full visibility across logs, metrics and traces in one place, so they can drill down quickly and diagnose issues with confidence, without needing to be an observability expert or switch between multiple tools.”
NTT DATA opens new data centre, expanding digital infrastructure in Japan’ s Kansai region
NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services, has announced the official opening of its Keihanna OSK11 Data Center in Kyoto, Japan. Designed as a next generation, AI ready facility, OSK11 incorporates advanced, high efficiency cooling technologies and global engineering standards to support growing demand for cloud and AI workloads. The facility, operated by NTT Global Data Centers( GDC), strengthens digital infrastructure in the Kansai region, one of Japan’ s fastest growing data centre markets.
Strategically located in the Osaka – Kyoto corridor, OSK11 delivers 30MW of IT capacity and provides a highly resilient, scalable platform for both hyperscalers and enterprise customers. The facility – NTT DATA’ s 14th data centre in Japan – strengthens the company’ s presence in one of the country’ s most important and fastest-growing digital infrastructure markets.
“ OSK11 represents a significant milestone in our continued investment in Japan and our commitment to enabling the next generation of digital innovation,” said Doug Adams, CEO of NTT Global Data Centers.“ As demand for AI-ready infrastructure accelerates, the Kansai region is emerging as a critical hub for data-driven growth and OSK11 positions our customers to scale with confidence.”
Its launch comes at a time of accelerating demand for digital infrastructure in Japan, driven by cloud adoption, AI workloads and enterprise modernisation initiatives. The Kansai region in particular has become a strategic alternative and complement to Tokyo, offering geographic diversity and enhanced Business Continuity. n
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