Middlesex University
Financial Statements 2015/16
Information Technology
In September 2015 Exponential-e Ltd (the British Cloud and Network provider) was formally awarded the University’s Data Centre and Server Managed Services contract. Work started immediately after the contract signature in preparing the Exponential-e’s data centres, server and network infrastructure to receive the 240+ University systems and by 31 July 2016 all of these had been migrated to the new service. Key benefits realised in moving to the new service include:
— Reduced costs whilst realising increased server capacity
— Modern server hardware, providing improved systems performance times
— The ability to scale services dynamically to cater for short periods of time when additional capacity is required
— The use of “mirroring” services to increase the speed and reduce the complexity of systems recovery in the event of a disaster.
Other projects include: the move of all staff email services to Microsoft Office 365; installation of our wired and wireless network into the new Ritterman building; enhancements to our on-line applications system to improve management of Agents and application processes for non UCAS applicants including tuition fee/deposit payment by debit/credit card; and the replacement of over 1000 desktops.
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