Projects & Agreements
KEYSOURCE SECURES TRIO
OF DATA CENTRE CONTRACTS
Keysource has secured new contracts with the University
of Leicester, cloud hosting provider brightsolid, and a major
utilities company to support their changing data centre needs.
For the University of Leicester, Keysource will deliver
a significant upgrade to the critical cooling infrastructure
across its data centres, to support an increase in capacity
and maintain high efficiency. The works, which will keep the
institution at the forefront of best practice and discovery-led
research, is the latest contract in Keysource’s partnership
with the university, which has seen it operate the institution’s
data centre estate since 2008.
Brightsolid has appointed Keysource to continue to
deliver critical environment facilities management services
for its Tier 3 design certified data centre in Aberdeen. The
extended contract follows the first phase of the project, which
Keysource delivered in 2015, and has seen strong demand for
the facility’s high specification.
Keysource will continue to deliver on a relationship
dating back to 2010 with a major utilities company, to carry
out the design and build of a data centre at a critical site.
The project will see the Keysource team will working under
strict site constraints due to high security and business
critical nature of the facility.
For further information visit: www.keysource.co.uk
Virtus Data Centres
announces plans for
fourth London data centre
NGD switches on to BT
Optical network services
Next Generation Data (NGD) has announced it has become
one of the first data centres outside London to go live
with the new BT Wholesale Optical and Optical Connect
National service which delivers 10Gb, nx10Gb and 100Gb
Ethernet symmetric point to point connectivity.
This follows a major surge in cloud based services at
NGD which in turn is creating an unprecedented growth
in network traffic. With a direct connection to NGD’s
data centre BT’s high performance optical solutions will
support demand by offering customers a flexible, scalable
and resilient solution including secure, uncontended
bandwidth with zero jitter and packet loss.
Nick Razey, CEO, Next Generation Data, commented,
‘Our data centre is relied on by a rapidly increasing number
of enterprise cloud users and service providers which
makes the availability of high speed, highly resilient and
secure network services a top priority.’
Three years ago, NGD was selected as BT’s first data
centre PoP as part of its 21CN Next Generation Ethernet
Infrastructure.
For further information visit: www.ngd.co.uk
Intergraph Chooses
Druva to Expand
Cloud Based Data Protection
to European Offices
Virtus Data Centers has announced the launch of its fourth facility.
The new data centre – to be called London3 – will be located next to
the existing Virtus London4 in Slough, creating an expandable secure
connected campus. Both buildings will be linked and share facilities.
Responding to demand for hyper efficient, metro fibre
connected, flexible and scalable colocation space, this new data
centre will provide an additional 3,000NTM (net technical metres)
of IT space. It will increase Virtus’ portfolio in London to over 50MW
across four sites, making it one of the leading providers in the
capital. The data centre will be fitted out in two phases, with the
first phase expected to open for business by summer 2018.
Virtus sites in Slough, Hayes and Enfield now serve as a
business hub for hundreds of organisations across financial
services, the public sector, life sciences and education as well
as cloud and IT services industries, giving access to over 20
public cloud platforms via the majority of global and regional
telecommunications providers. Druva has announced that Intergraph has chosen Druva
inSync to protect data across the company’s roaming and
mobile user base in Europe. The implementation provides
users with protection for their critical data in the cloud, as
well as the ability to recover data in a self-service manner
when needed, instantly.
By leveraging Druva’s cloud-first platform to remove
the complexity of data protection and the risk of data loss
for its mobile users, Intergraph stays compliant with its
global data protection requirements without the burden of
new infrastructure.
To provide better support to the company’s staff, the IT
team at Intergraph investigated both cloud based and on-
premises data protection solutions. The team ultimately
chose Druva inSync, a fully cloud native solution, as
the best product to meet the company’s needs. The
implementation initially covers 200 users spread across
Europe, with plans to expand beyond that user group in
coming months.
For further information visit: www.virtusdatacentres.com For further information visit: www.druva.com
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