Leadership in the Public Sector
“T is demonstration shows you can succeed in doing effi ciency if you are thinking of things in a more innovative way,” Rob Elder, Keysource
Winner 2011: UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER 06 About this award
T is Award recognises the achievement of government and public sector IT- focused initiatives, projects and strategies in meeting both the requirements of clients and publics and organizational/policy-driven objectives.
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Improving service capability and effi ciency through centralization
Density and low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) don’t always match. But the University of Leicester in the UK, with the help of data center design and build company Keysource,
managed to achieve both with its data center consolidation project, which packs a punch using a modular free-air cooling solution. Ecofris, as it is called, allows air collected externally to be recycled in the space without having to designate where IT equipment is kept. This has allowed the university to achieve a PUE of 1.19 while holding 90% more IT load than it previously could. The data center can support platforms of up to 30kW per rack with an IT load of 150kW and a second development phase will now see its IT capacity double to more than 300kW without disrupting systems already in place.
Keysource’ Rob Elder said the university’s openness to innovation within its design helped Keysource achieve “world- class levels of effi ciency in an existing building by upgrading systems”.
“It proves that it does not have to be a new build. This demonstration shows you can succeed in doing effi ciency if you are thinking of things in a more innovative way,” Elder says.
The university now has a high-performance computing facility that can be used as part of the SuperWASP program, an extra-solar planet detection initiative in the UK.
Finalists 2011:
University of Frankfurt LOEWE-Center for Scientifi c Computing
Isle of Man Government data centre – a journey of continuous renewal
YHMAN YHMAN Shared Virtual Data Centre
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