projects & agreements
Single Sign On proves ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY PROTECTS
CRITICAL INTERNAL APPLICATION WITH
to be a real asset
CLARANET DISASTER RECOVERY SOLUTION
for infrastructure
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has engaged Claranet to develop and host a state-ofdisaster recovery platform, fully interoperable with ASA’s existing platform.
manager Semperian the-art
The ASA regulates advertising across all media in the UK, in recent years the number of
Asset manager Semperian PPP
Investment Partners (Semperian)
has turned to Secure Cloudlink
for Single Sign On (SSO) across
its geographically dispersed
employee workforce.
Semperian was launched in
October 2007 as an infrastructure
manager that provides its
investors with access to a large,
diverse portfolio of mature PPP
infrastructure investments. To
address the demands of a dispersed
workforce Semperian implemented
a centralised IT infrastructure, which
would allow staff access to mission
critical information from wherever
they were in the country.
Semperian had to be confident
that all data could be accessed
easily and most importantly,
securely, via its central hub. To
do this effectively a SSO solution
was needed across its centralised
Active Directory in order to provide
authentication to its software
platforms - Semperian was then
introduced to Secure Cloudlink.
Secure Cloudlink is a British
cloud security software company
that has developed a threefactor, SSO and biometric user
authentication solution. It acts
as a secure, centralised user
authentication and application to
manage all users’ access rights to
all authorised applications without
the need to create and manage
internal domains.
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complaints registered by the ASA has risen steadily, driven in part by the exponential growth of
online media. To ensure that all complaints are dealt with efficiently, the ASA maintains a vast
complaints management database, which acts as an electronic record of all registered complaints
and related correspondence.
Claranet established a dedicated disaster recovery environment for the ASA’s complaints
management database on its DRaaS platform, with the cloud recovery environment hosted at
Claranet’s own UK based data centre on IBM System x3550 M4 servers and shared storage
based on IBM Storwize V7000.
The solution handles the switchover to virtual servers in the recovery environment, as well
as the switchback to the original production servers once the disaster scenario is over. In future,
the ASA plans to gradually migrate more of its enterprise systems, including email, customer
relationship management and document management applications to Claranet’s disaster recovery
platform, ensuring end-to-end business continuity.
AEG Power Solutions secures the power of a
premium high capacity data centre in Singapore
AEG Power Solutions has announced that its Protect
Blue UPS has been installed to
secure the power supply to one of Singapore’s
most recent and largest data centres.
The new facility encompasses over
180,000m2 and features a large power
architecture that delivers over 13MW
of critical IT capacity. It offers its
customers a wide range of premium
data services with a state-of-the-art and
secure infrastructure interconnected with
other data centres of the same group.
The Protect Blue UPS system is designed
specifically for large data centres and offers
protection from 250kW to 4MW. With
one of the highest energy efficiency rates
on the market, Protect Blue is a durable,
flexible, easy to maintain UPS solution that
optimises total cost of ownership and reduces
operator intervention.