projects & agreements
OpenX selects
Zayo for data
centre expansion
OpenX, a global leader in
creating programmatic advertising
marketplaces, has selected Zayo
Group Holdings to expand its data
centre footprint to support the
growing volume of transactions
on its OpenX Ad Exchange. The
OpenX Ad Exchange facilitates
trillions of transactions yearly for
the company’s more than 1,000
publisher clients worldwide.
As the digital advertising
industry has evolved over the past
decade, publishers, App developers
and marketers are increasingly
adopting programmatic advertising
to facilitate targeted campaigns
across all screens and formats. Ad
tech companies have significant
infrastructure requirements that range
from high performance connectivity to
colocation and cloud solutions. Given
its interconnect-rich data centre
portfolio and extensive fibre network,
Zayo is well positioned to target the
ad tech ecosystem. In OpenX’s case,
the company will further utilise Zayo’s
high performance communications
infrastructure to support current and
future growth.
OpenX currently has a dense
colocation footprint in Zayo’s
Ashburn, Virginia and Oak Brook,
Illinois data centres. Under the terms
of the new three year agreement,
OpenX will expand colocation in
both facilities. Zayo acquired these
data centres as part of the Latisys
acquisition last year and continues
to leverage these assets to drive
colocation and cloud growth.
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World famous church supported by
micro data centre from Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric has provided a
micro data centre solution to the
Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
Designed by Antoni Gaudi, the
Sagrada Familia is a UNESCO world
heritage site that continues a long
history of transformation through
an extensive, ongoing construction
project due for completion in 2026.
The Basilica had unique
challenges and time constraints
for building a new data centre
that required a different approach
to the design and construction
principles traditionally employed in
the IT industry.
In just 16 weeks, Schneider
Electric designed, manufactured
and delivered a turnkey data centre
infrastructure solution, complete with IT, racks, UPS, power distribution, precision cooling,
environmental management and fire suppression system.
Schneider Electric enabled Sagrada Familia to acquire a new fast track, state-of-the-art
data centre within budget, with predictable performance, and with the flexibility to relocate
the data centre when expansion demands a move.
EDUCATION PROVIDER NCG STREAMLINES REQUIRED
STORAGE CAPACITY WITH ARCSERVE UDP
Arcserve LLC has announced that its Unified Data Protection (UDP) software, coupled with
deduplication and compression features, has enabled NCG, one the UK’s largest education
providers, to reduce the required back up storage capacity from 172TB to just 30TB, and its
back up window by 80 per cent. As a result the group has cut the cost of protecting 172TB of
data created and used by more than 133,000 students by 50 per cent, and reallocated 50 per
cent of the staff originally dedicated to data protection to other projects.
Currently NCG needs to protect 172 TB of data including student and staff records,
enrolment information and financial data. This includes Microsoft Exchange data, an SQL
database and 350 virtual and physical servers.
The NCG IT team selected Arcserve UDP based on its ability to lower the amount of data to
be protected thanks to data reduction technologies, which in turn cut the cost of licensing fees
and freed up staff time.
Arcserve UDP also had a significant impact on the back up process, in part due to deduplication
and compression and, secondly, thanks to its ability to carry out incremental back ups.