FACILITIES migration
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Shopping for a new data centre facility Harvey Nichols migrates to new data centre in four weeks with support from on365.
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arvey Nichols, the international luxury lifestyle store, required infrastructure support for its head office relocation to be completed in a four-week period to help support its ever-expanding network of shops and restaurants. The company decided that this move was an opportunity to overhaul the majority of its legacy systems and invest in a purpose-built data centre to handle the ever growing IT demands of its estate. The new data centre was completed in 2010, with power supplies based around APC infrastructure and hardware from on365, a specialist in the planning, installing, management and optimisation of physical IT infrastructure and utility services.
Harvey Nichols decided to use this strategic move as an opportunity to design a data centre which was more efficient both in terms of space, power and energy consumption, while supporting best practice and flexibility for daily computing needs. The main focus was to improve on the legacy data centre’s performance level through the use of new and refreshed technology. Furthermore, the new centre will provide the solid base for the store’s future IT requirements and environmental monitoring capabilities. To add to the complexity of the project specification, during the build and transfer of services, the new data centre solution had to ensure minimum disruption to Harvey Nichols’ daily operations.
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www.dcsuk.info I May 2012
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