projects & agreements
MERLIN ENTERTAINMENTS TRANSFORMS IT
WITH SIMPLIVITY HYPERCONVERGENCE
Merlin Entertainments has
standardised on SimpliVity
hyperconverged infrastructure
to revolutionize its data centre.
SimpliVity hyperconverged
infrastructure dramatically reduces
capital and operational expenses
(capex and opex), while ensuring
high performance and availability
for Merlin’s business critical
applications. As a result of its
recent move to SimpliVity, Merlin
projects a three year total cost
of ownership (TCO) saving for its
new theme parks and attractions,
compared to alternative solutions,
of 25 per cent.
Globally, Merlin operates 110 attractions in 23 countries. Some of the
most renowned and famous resort theme parks and midway attractions in the
world are operated by Merlin, including Legoland resorts, Madame Tussauds,
and Sea Life aquariums, among others.
Merlin was looking to streamline operations, simplify management, and
free up its IT team to work on more innovative and business progressing
initiatives. The organisation needed a solution that would reliably support
its revenue critical retail systems, ticketing and admission systems, hotel
management systems, and core IT services. After vetting solutions from a
number of vendors, Merlin decided that SimpliVity was the perfect fit.
ZTE and Tencent construct
energy efficient mobile
modular data centre
ZTE Corporation has joined Tencent to successfully
build Tencent West Lab, a fully mobile containerised,
energy efficient data centre.
The successful collaboration between ZTE and
Tencent has delivered a data centre that features multiple
technological breakthroughs, most notably an overall
power usage effectiveness (PUE) level of 1.0665
(including photovoltaic gains). The figure is based on
uninterrupted 24 hour load tests made by the China
Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR).
Data centre development in China has accelerated in
recent times with over 400,000 data centres operating
in China today. According to China’s Ministry of Industry
and Information Technology (MIIT), the annual power
consumption of China’s data centre industry exceeds
1.5 per cent of the total power consumption of the
whole of China. This is creating an urgency to initiate
further green and energy saving data centre projects.
Given this challenge, ZTE has implemented a
number of innovations while working with Tencent to
jointly construct the West Lab data centre, which is
fully mobile and modular in design. The new facility
features technological breakthroughs in cooling, power
consumption, design structure, management and control.