Making the right decision about how and where to manage your data is key to an organisation’s IT strategy. The new Jisc shared data centre has been procured to provide a cost effective environment to co-locate systems and services in one safe environment. So whether you are supporting enterprise activities or high end research, the Jisc shared data centre can provide significant benefits to your organisation.

2. The Jisc shared data centre…
…reduce costs, increase efficiency, consolidate data,
collaborate, innovate.

3. » Driven by six anchor tenants
» All facing issues with
› Real estate
› Power stability/availability
› Teaching space vs technical space
› Refurbishment costs
› Build vs co-locate
Development of the service
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4. » Jisc framework
› 5 + 5 +5
» Aggregated demand model
» Full OJEU procurement
» Designed for education and research
› Research and enterprise applications
› Flexibility and scalability
The service
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5. » Higher education institutions and further education colleges in
the UK and their purchasing consortia
» Establishments of the research councils and other organisations
whose principal activity is the conduct of publicly or charitably
funded research
» The Department of Health and arm’s length organisations
including NHS England and their successor bodies for the purposes
of research and education
» Privately funded research and development organisations to
further their collaborations with any of the above
Eligibility
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» Partnered with InfinitySDC,
the London data centre experts
» Full co-location service aimed
at education and research
» Brand new tier 3+ data centre
in Slough
» Connected directly to the core
of the Janet network
The result

7. The data centre
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» Built: 2013
» Tech space: 9,200m2
» Area: 22,000m2
» Power: 34MVA
» Power Feed: Dual 33kV
» Office space: 2000m2

8. Jisc data hall
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9. Data centre fly thru
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» Scalability:
› of power (particularly in
support of research/HPC)
› of rack space (up to 800 racks
within theJisc data halls over
five years)
» Availability:
› of power
› of connectivity
» Security:
› of data
› of equipment
» Connectivity
› 2 x 100G connectivity to the
Janetcore, scalable asnecessary
› Access across Janet is
chargeable
Technical details

11. Power options
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» Lots of flexibility:
› Rack rate and committed rate
› Smart hands
› Goods receipt / dispatch
› Secure storage
› Shared work room
› Office and meeting space
» Power:
› Pass through power charges.
Currently 10p/kwh *1.25
› Contractual committed PUE
1.25 (cannot increase)
Other features

13. £360/m
£90/kW/m
£850/m
£85/kW/m
£1,700/m
£85/kW/m
£2,400/m
£80/kW/m
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Reducing costs
4kWTier III
Cat C
10kWTier III
Cat C
20kWTier III
Cat C
30kWTier III
Cat C
£420/m
£105/kW/m
£1,000/m
£100/kW/m
£2,000/m
£100/kW/m
£2,850/m
£95/kW/m
4kWTier III
Cat C
10kWTier III
Cat C
20kWTier III
Cat C
30kWTier III
Cat C

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» Reducing costs and increasing
efficiency
» Space issues on campus
» Ageing data centre(s), not fit
for purpose
» Service and power
availability/stability
» Projects needing resources at
short notice
Helping with challenges

15. » Teaching space vs technical space
» Refurbish existing data centre vs co-location
» Build new data centre
» Power – charges, stability, availability
Reducing costs
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» Security
› of data
› of equipment
» Server refresh
» Virtualisation
Consolidate data

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» Shared services
› Securely hosted by 3rd party
» Shared data
» Increase availability
› Uptime
› Network access
Collaborate

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» Distance/off-site learners
› Reduce impact on campus
resources
» Virtual desktop environment
› Reliability
› Availability
» Disaster recovery/Business
continuity
Innovate

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» Collaborative research
projects
› eMedlab
› MedBio
» Primary or Secondary data
centre
» Backup data centre
» Research computing
› HPC
Real examples

20. Find out more…
Contact…
Guy Sudron
Data centre manager, Jisc
guy.sudron@jisc.ac.uk
01235 822292