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Secure I.T. Environments completes
data centre build for Thurrock
County Council
ecure I.T. Environments Ltd, one
of the UK’s leading design and
build companies of modular
and containerised data centres including
refurbishment of existing data centres, has
announced the handover of its latest data
centre project to Thurrock County Council.
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The new 234m2 data centre will provide
a new energy and space efficient home
for an IT infrastructure serving 170,000
residents across over 160km 2 .
The data centre was required as the
operational location and IT systems had
reached end of life.
This led to a critical timeline to ensure
handover for the new facility was achieved
on time and within budget.
The project was split into two phases, the
first comprising the design, build and testing
(including acceptance testing) of the new
data centre, the evaluation of existing critical
and essential power, and decommissioning
of the existing ICT infrastructure.
Phase two is an on-going five-year
programme of planned preventative
and reactive maintenance, including
emergency call-out services.
The new data centre room includes
Resilient Data Centre energy efficient air-
conditioning in N+1 configuration, Riello
MPW UPS, a built-in 65KVA generator,
840U of server space, raised access
flooring, environmental monitoring,
biometric access control, CCTV and Novec
fire suppression.
The project also included all ground works
and connection to existing electricity
supplies and back-up generators located
on other parts of the site.
MTI wins infrastructure transformation
contract with Southern Water
TI Technology, a global
provider of IT services and
solutions, has announced it
has won a £15 million contract with
Southern Water. The contract will
see MTI provide professional and
managed services around data centre
modernisation, data protection and
enhancing cybersecurity, as part
of Southern Water’s wide-ranging
transformation programme.
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MTI is using its proven data centre
modernisation capabilities to design and
build two state-of-the-art data centres in
collocated facilities, including the provision
of an interconnected dual-fibre network,
Internet services and on-site services.
A new hyper-converged compute,
storage and network architecture will
provide Southern Water with a flexible
IT platform for efficient and effective
service delivery, including the capability
to manage private/public cloud
infrastructure in the future.
The new data centre will support
Southern Water’s existing Windows
Server and Linux environments, as
well as core business applications
including SAP, Microsoft Exchange
and Oracle Databases. This will be
underpinned with intelligent data
backup and restore, data replication
and data archiving.
Southern Water is one of the largest
water authorities in England and is
responsible for water services across
Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, West
Sussex, East Sussex and Kent. Southern
Water’s transformation programme is
centred on developing resilience across
the company’s business, corporate and
financial operations. A key element of
this programme will see MTI transition
Southern Water from a fully third-
party managed data centre to a self-
managed software-defined data centre.
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