projects & agreements
NATO selects Italtel for
portable data centre project
HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS ENABLES RESEARCH
INNOVATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
Italtel has been awarded an international tender
by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
to build two transportable data centres.
More than 250 companies belonging to the
28 member countries of the Alliance were notified
about the tender for the project – the demand
for which was generated by the Italian Army. The
acquisition was delegated by TELEDIFE (the
Italian Defence Telecommunication Procurement
Directorate) to the NATO Communications and
Information Agency (NCIA), which developed the
technical specification due to its knowledge and
previous experience of current systems in place.
The data centres will be deployed at the NATO
Rapid Deployable Corps Italy (NRDC – ITA), in
Solbiate Olona, to align its Communication and
Information System (CIS) infrastructure with the
requirements of its recently awarded role of landheavy Joint Task Force (JTF) Headquarters, which
involves leading NATO joint operations within
NATO Areas of Responsibility, often performed out
of the national borders. The data centres provided
by this project are destined to be used by NRDC
– ITA in various overseas locations where allied
forces are deployed.
Based in Glasgow,
the University
of Strathclyde is
one of the UK’s
top 20 research
intensive universities,
with more than
22,000 students.
Strathclyde is a
leading international
technological
university, committed
to providing innovative
research of true societal value to tackle the major challenges of the 21st century.
But the university had concerns about its ageing IT infrastructure that was nearing
the end of its useful life. Many researchers and academic departments were also
reaching the upper limit of the storage capacity assigned to them by the IT team.
Hitachi Data Systems worked with partner Capita to provide an enterprise class
solution covering NAS, SAN and back up based on Hitachi Unified Storage VM
with accelerated flash, designed to provide a single platform for all data types. The
university maintains an established strategic technology partnership with Capita,
focused on delivering technology enhancements for the benefit of student, staff and
partners. With the latest implementation, Hitachi Data Systems was able to provide
a guarantee of 100 per cent data availability to give the university the non-disruptive,
reliable service required to enable students to work securely 24/7.
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