projects & agreements
Keysource has been appointed
by the University of Leicester on
a three year extendable contract
to provide critical data centre
facilities management (FM)
services. It builds on a seven
year relationship which started in
2009 when Keysource designed
and built the university’s’ award
winning data centre which it
then expanded in 2011, almost
doubling it in size.
Under the terms of the new
deal Keysource will provide
a seamless, responsive and proactive management of the maintenance services for the data centres
in line with the university’s’ own strategic plan. This will include providing specialist auditing and
monitoring of energy efficiency levels so that the university can both reduce operational costs and
meet carbon footprint targets. The service will be based on a clear framework focusing on data centre
best practice, leveraging the ITIL methodology and Keysource’s new CAFM system.
Additional support w ill be provided during August and September when the university is at its
busiest with student applications. During this time Keysource will undertake critical window pre-health
checks on the infrastructure to ensure the data centres are working at optimum standards, whilst
critical facilities engineers will be stationed within close proximity to the university.
NCG cuts required storage capacity, back up
window and licence fees 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.
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 the two
pronged drop in the volumes of data being backed up daily: firstly, thanks to deduplication and
compression and, secondly, thanks to its ability to carry out incremental back ups. Now the
process only takes a few minutes for a small 40Gb server, and approximately one hour for a file
server holding user data.
NCG is now planning to extend Arcserve UDP to more servers and for off site back up.
Image courtesy of the University of Leicester.
LEICESTER UNIVERSITY APPOINTS
KEYSOURCE FOR CRITICAL FM
NHN Techorus Corp.
Deploys Infinera
Cloud Xpress
for Data Center
Interconnect
Infinera has announced
that NHN Techorus Corp.
(Techorus) has deployed
the Infinera Cloud Xpress to
interconnect its Tokyo data
centres. The Cloud Xpress
allows Techorus to scale
capacity to serve its data centre
customers with hyper-scale
density, operational simplicity
and low power consumption.
Techorus is a data centre
provider of IT infrastructure and
managed services, e-commerce
services, and security solution
services mainly to the Tokyo
and Osaka areas in Japan,
with additional sites in southern
Japan and South Korea.
Working with Infinera’s
partner, Nissho Electronics,
Techorus selected the Infinera
Cloud Xpress to serve
the growing need for high
capacity interconnectivity
among Techorus locations,
helping its customers to grow
efficiently and connect to
the metro Tokyo ecosystem
of customers, partners and
service providers.
With the Cloud Xpress,
Techorus leverages Infinera’s
unique photonic integrated
circuit technology to support up
to one terabit per second (Tb/s)
of input and output capacity in
just two rack units.
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