projects & agreements
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
UHY CUTS THE TAPE AND
IMPROVES DATA SECURITY
USING DATTO
UK chartered accountants firm UHY Hacker
Young has deployed Datto’s flagship recovery
service suite, SIRIS, as an upgrade of its data
back up system.
The firm had been using a manual tape back
up system that required manual changeover of
the tapes every night, a process which put its
data retention capabilities at risk from human
error and corruption or loss of the data tapes.
Furthermore, UHY Hacker Young was also
obliged to archive the tapes at a secure off site
location at additional expense.
Recognising that the current back up system
needed to be updated, managed services provider
Complete IT selected Datto’s Siris 2 Enterprise
processor thanks to its cloud based disaster
recovery and business continuity capabilities.
Datto’s SE100000 processor allowed Complete IT
to back up 10Tb of data, ensuring the thousands
of gigabytes of sensitive client data is managed in
a foolproof way using a secure system – whether
employees are working from the office or an
alternative location on laptops.
Switch Datacenters announces Tier 4
upgrade in its Amsterdam colocation facilities
Switch Datacenters has announced
a significant energy efficiency
upgrade to its data centres located
in the Amsterdam area. Switch
Datacenters implemented Air@Work’s
indirect adiabatic cooling technology,
yielding improved energy, water and
maintenance savings. This now results
in a calculated, ultra low power usage
effectiveness (PUE) of 1.07.
With two large Tier3+ colocation
data centres located in the Amsterdam
region, Switch Datacenters saw the
need for a significant infrastructural
upgrade to its Switch AMS1 and Switch
WRD1 facilities – from Tier 3+ to an
ultimate Tier 4 data centre standard meeting full Uptime Institute specifications.
Air@Work’s indirect adiabatic cooling solution utilises ‘StatiqCooling’ – a
synthetic heat exchanger for indirect adiabatic cooling. The heat exchanger is a
patented technology developed by Air@Work which operates with extremely low
water consumption. These systems are small in size and come with modular thus
highly scalable characteristics. Its power capacity modularly varies from 20kW up
to 200kW.
The modularity of Air@Work’s cooling system also allows for accurate
measurements and precise control of utilisation, consumption and varying cooling
models specific to multi-tenancy requirements within data centre environments.