END USER INSIGHT
VERTIV ’ S
EXTENSIVE DATA CENTRE EXPERIENCE
PROVED INCREDIBLY USEFUL AS
WE BUILT THIS COMPLEX
COLLAGE OF EFFICIENT , HIGH- PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES .
a committed and forward-thinking IT department – iSolutions . The iSolutions team serves over 300 individual IT services , as well as approximately 6,000 staff and 1,400 student workstations . Above and beyond this core IT support , the university has created its Infrastructure Investment Programme ( IIP ) which allows iSolutions to take a proactive approach to investments in new technology , network architecture and its data centre .
A national example
As the university ’ s IT demands increase , iSolutions is working to ensure continuity of a secure , sustainable and available infrastructure . A major part of this ongoing programme is the investment in a new data centre .
The project is garnering significant interest from educational institutions across the country ; its careful balance of the need for high performance and environmental accountability will stand as a blueprint for subsequent such developments . Built on a brownfield site , the university ’ s data centre is symbolic of a new era of higher performance , more efficient IT . Creating the right facility , with suitable power , cooling , connectivity and redundancy , required a comprehensive understanding of the technology available within the market . Working collaboratively with the University of Southampton team , Vertiv became involved in this process at an early stage .
Reduced environmental and financial footprint
“ The challenge was clear : how could we enable high power computing ( HPC ) performance alongside more repetitive processing tasks , while maintaining maximum power control and efficiency across these varied load profiles ?” said Mike Powell , Data Centre Manager at the University of Southampton . Powell recognised that the new facility posed some difficult questions for technology providers . Vertiv was able to step in with an immediate resolution , offering an easily deployable , enterprise-class solution which met the university ’ s requirements exactly : the Liebert Trinergy UPS . The University of Southampton showed more than just an academic interest in its smart solutions to complex problems . When the iSolutions team reviewed the capabilities of the Liebert Trinergy UPS , they were impressed by its delivery of a number of ‘ industry-firsts ’.
A greener university
The university has committed to a 20 % reduction in energy usage against a baseline level set in 2005 / 6 and so efficiency was a primary consideration within the procurement process for the facility .
Simplifying the technology challenge
The development of the facility demanded a wide array of technologies to operate in harmony – generators , air conditioning , UPS , lighting and the compute capabilities that would form the heart of the data centre .
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