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Nick Dodds – Project Manager, BBC

London Borough of Newham: State of the Art in a cow shed

When The London Borough of Newham was looking for a new high-tech state of the art modular equipment room, one of the challenges it set its contractors was to incorporate the solution in within a pre-existing shell structure on a concrete base which used to be the site of an old cow shed. Future-Tech was more than up to the challenge.

The challenge

Newham was in the midst of a 10-year, £27 million IT systems upgrade, including blade servers, storage area network technology and a rolling four-year refresh of all desktop and laptop hardware. Key to the project was a state-of-the-art, modular, high-density data centre valued in the region of £400,000.

The Solution

Future-Tech’s turn-key solution saw the company design, build and equip the computer room with a unique air conditioning system to support the Council’s new blade servers, as well as providing electrical services, generator, fire systems, and environmental monitoring systems including door access and CCTV. The contract also included site supervision, project management, design and engineering, health & safety, operations and maintenance manuals, testing and compliance certificates. Future-Tech is also providing a full preventative maintenance service for the site.

Geoff Connell, Deputy Head of ICT at The London Borough of Newham, commented on the project stating: “We now have a very flexible, modular computer suite to support the delivery of IT services, not only to staff but also to the public as part of the e-Government initiative. Our computer room is housed within old tin sheds and therefore we needed Future-Tech to design and build a modular data centre within a very restricted space capable of supporting us for the next 10 years as we continue to expand our range of IT services.

Key benefits

“The power supply and air conditioning requirements for modern mainframe replacement architecture are much greater than before, and our old computer room simply wouldn’t have been able to house our new blade servers. The data centre that Future-Tech has designed now gives us a very scaleable, reliable and resilient IT infrastructure. For example, we would now be in a position to run the IT operations for neighbouring boroughs if we decided this was something we wanted to pursue.”

Commenting on the service provided by Future-Tech, he concluded: “We have an excellent working relationship with Future-Tech’s consultants. Their data centre design impressed us in terms of quality and price/performance, and their professionalism, responsiveness and flexibility during the build stage was excellent. Of all the data centre providers that we spoke to, Future-Tech gave us the most confidence that they would deliver against their promises within the agreed timeframe. This has proven to be the case.”

For more information contact Future-Tech on 0845 9000 127
Email: info@future-tech.co.uk

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