Birmingham City University has chosen Logicalis to help it develop a converged infrastructure, in a deal worth £3.6 million. The university’s 10 sites are served by a main data centre on its north campus, which it said is ageing and will not support its business needs beyond the next 18 months.

The data centre houses business critical servers based on chassis and blade technology, along with a handful of standalone x86 and x64 servers, but suffers from “dated design based around mainframe computing of previous decades”, according to the university.  The first part of Logicalis’ programme will be to create a new main data centre that can support the university’s business needs for the next seven to 10 years, which will be followed by replacing many parts of its existing network in a move towards a newly integrated infrastructure.

Source: Computerworld