UK Grid to join EU code of conduct for Data Centres
UK Grid has committed to join the EU code of conduct for data centres which sets out a criteria for running energy efficient facilities.
The purpose of the code is to understand the energy demand in data centres, to raise awareness and to recommend best practice and targets for service providers to implement.
The code is completely voluntary and highlights UK Grid’s commitment to highly efficient data centres during its 2010 expansion. More details of this will be posted in our next newsletter.
London Update
UK Grid has recently added further network capacity in the following leading data centres; Global Switch 2, Telehouse North, Telehouse East and Telehouse Metro. This is part of UK Grid’s continuing London expansion plan, part of which will see further rack space being available towards the end of this year. UK Grid is also bolstering its connectivity to the LONAP peering LAN by taking a second GigE connection in Telehouse North to provide extra capacity and also redundancy to the existing LoNAP connection in Harbour Exchange 6/7.
New Staff at UK Grid
UK Grid welcomes its new operations manager who will be overseeing the UK Grid support team and facilities management. Dipak Haveliwala joins the team with a wealth of data centre related experience having been involved in much of the build work within Synergy House and coupled with a strong background in electrical engineering and service management.
Further staff qualifications at UK Grid
UK Grid’s staff have been busy over the last few weeks and are pleased to announce that their team members have added CCNA, MCTS in Windows 2008 Network Infrastructure, MCTS in Active Directory and also Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP) to the growing list of certifications. This month will also see UK Grid embark on the globally recognised ITIL certifications which will provide a set of best practice approaches to service management.
New Services
UK Grid has added a managed Unix service to its portfolio of offerings using its in house team of experienced engineers. This service includes the following items for Unix and Linux based operating systems.
- Unix consultancy
- Apache configuration
- MySQL configuration
- Backups including custom scripting
- Server and process monitoring
- Clean Unix builds
- Patching
- Security Audits
- Email gateway configuration using Exim
- BindDNS
- Storage and Volume management
For further information on this new product or to discuss any existing or up and coming Unix projects please call our sales team for further information +44 (0)845 260 4743
And finally, Happy New Year...
The staff at UK Grid would like to wish all of its customers and colleagues a Happy New Year and a successful 2010.
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