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NextiraOne has signed a new contract with Poundland to upgrade the company’s core LAN infrastructure.
The new agreement will see NextiraOne design, supply, implement and maintain
Environmental solution
The University of Nottingham has awarded a contract in excess of £50,000 to 2bm, for its iMeter system, a highly advanced environmental and power monitoring solution which will enable the university to monitor and reduce power consumption in the data centres.
The 2bm iMeter will be used to monitor power across the university’s sites, providing invaluable data on energy consumption down to individual rack level. The order with 2bm will see upwards of 200 intelliAmps installed, all linked back to 2bm’s iMeter Management Software (iMS), a data collection, analytical and reporting software suite. This enables IT and facilities personnel within the university to view and analyse both power and environmental data in meaningful and intuitive formats so that decisions aimed at reducing power costs and improving operational efficiency can be made quickly and easily.
Implementation of the iMeter solution took place in September, one of the university’s busiest times of the year, with clearing and registration for new students taking place. It was therefore critical that the iMeter could be installed without system downtime.
Poundland’s communications infrastructure for its administration and warehouse distribution locations. This investment will ensure that the company can continue to run the efficient systems that keep it at the peak of the retail value sector. Poundland uses its core network to handle stock control, distribution, financial and staff management systems and to integrate sales and stock information (via EPOS) with a 24/7 warehousing operation that despatches over 650 million items every year to the company’s retail outlets. Established in April 1990, Poundland has quickly grown to a nationwide operation with a network of over 345 stores offering exceptional value to over three million customers each week. The company plans to open a further 50 stores in the next year, creating around 2,000 new jobs. In support of this, Poundland’s ICT strategy is focused on ensuring the quality of its support systems and technical infrastructure meet the requirements of an expanding, fast moving business. Poundland has therefore invested substantially in the computerisation of stock control, distribution, financial and staff management systems.
Military force
Customers who have hosted their data centre facilities at The Bunker are set to benefit from a major network upgrade to its existing Brocade environment. The evolution of The Bunker’s Brocade MLX Series routers is designed to provide future proofing for clients during the IPv4 to IPv6 transition, deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance and enable the company to stay ahead of increasingly bandwidth intense applications, such as high definition streaming media.
The Bunker provides military grade hosting within nuclear bunkers in Kent (located in an ex-Ministry of Defence facility, 30m below the surface and insulated with 3m of concrete) and Berkshire (located at the former United States Air Force base at Greenham Common). Both locations are among the most secure data centres in the United Kingdom, providing a wide range of secure managed hosting, cloud computing, co-location and IT outsourcing services to its clients. The company notes that London is ‘one of the highest risk cities in the world’ and, without the proper safeguards, represents ‘a huge single point of failure to the availability of the UK Internet and all those that rely upon it.’ The Bunker’s secure facilities outside the M25 area – yet close to the capital – addresses this vulnerability.
IT infrastructure from smallest to largest.
ENCLOSURES POWER DISTRIBUTION CLIMATE CONTROL
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