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Retail Data Centre
Customer:
The UK's most successful and innovative national DIY superstore with over 34,000 employees and 300+ stores.
Chalenge:
The client required a best-of-breed solution that provided a single interface for managing all their data centre devices.
Solution:
AIT Partnership Group recommended an integrated solution manufactured by Raritan to deliver secure remote access to servers and IT assets and accurate metering and reporting of the power consumed by each asset.
Overview:
The UK's most successful and innovative national DIY superstore chain approached AIT Partnership Group for advice on designing a server management solution for their new “lights out” data centre
AIT Partnership's solution consisted of KVM switching systems, serial management equipment, server cabinets with a bespoke remote power management, environmental monitoring & door locking system. The client also had a particular requirement for the cabinets to be have high cooling efficiency and delivered with their corporate logo and to be pre-labelled with comms-room locations, to help with installation.
For the server management requirement, AIT Partnership recommended Raritan's ‘Paragon' KVM switch, incorporating the ‘IP Reach' for Remote Access. The Paragon KVM switch provides a flexible, high-performance, stand-alone KVM solution that is ideal for tiered configurations, enabling access to more than 10,000 servers up to 1,000 feet from up to 64 users. Combined with the powerful KVM over IP capabilities of the IP Reach this solution provides full access and management for all the clients' servers, both local and remote. The Paragon solution was supplemented with Dominion KX2 KVM-over-IP switches and Dominion PX IP PDUs when the second hall of the data centre was opened.
AIT Partnership fulfilled the client's requirement for having a single company to deal with that could integrate ‘best-of-breed' solutions. This made it possible to provide a scalable, unified management interface of all the data center devices. AIT Partnership demonstrated in-depth knowledge of products and solutions from leading manufacturers and provided the high levels of pre- & post-sales support that the client felt were vital to the success of the project.
The project was completed to schedule within and resulted in 90 bespoke cabinets installed in 2 locations.
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