Following a competitive tender, one of the leading universities in Wales appointed Keysource to undertake a full refresh of its edge network.
The contract was directly awarded through the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC) Framework for the provision of Data Centre Management Equipment and Infrastructure, where Keysource is a top ranked partner.
Having gone through periods of significant change, and in order to meet future expansion and passenger needs, the hub needed to ensure its data centre infrastructure was fit for purpose and secure for the future.
Keysource was tasked with maximising the return from the University of Leicester’s real-estate, whilst also reviewing their IT Transformation strategy to ensure it has been optimised to overcome today’s challenges.
Global IT service, software and technology company Unisys operates a number of critical, highly secure data centre facilities that deliver a range of colocation and managed services. Keysource was engaged to undertake an audit of the St Just House Data Centre in Milton Keynes to evaluate the opportunities to modernise the facility’s M&E infrastructure and design.
Keysource worked closely with Sky to roll out a new DCIM (Data Centre Infrastructure Management) solution across its UK data centre estate. Built from a need to replace aging legacy software platforms with an integrated solution, StruxureWare for Data Centers DCIM platform was chosen to deliver a range of operational, performance, cost and efficiency benefits across Sky’s business.
Keysource is responsible for providing a fully comprehensive critical facilities management at Garmin’s European headquarters in Southampton.
This contract, which is now in its fifth year, includes the management and maintenance of all critical equipment with 24/7 support.
Following on from the design and build of the University’s award winning HPC data centre in 2009 Keysource was chosen, in 2016, to support the University of Leicester’s entire data centre estate.
Keysource provides a seamless, responsive and proactive management of the maintenance services for the data centre estate in line with the University’s own strategic plan.
As Connexin’s technology partner, Keysource began working on a new technology campus in 2018. The campus will include a cutting edge data centre as well as Connexin’s new headquarters, which will allow the company to build out the team their next stage of growth.
With a diverse data centre estate spread across the city, Leeds City Council needed an established partner that had proven expertise in managing and monitoring critical environments but also understood the critical nature of the applications and services the facilities support.
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