Data center pressure transcends industries

November 13th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

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Harrods, the famous London department store, has announced it is to move its data centre to the roof of its famous Knightsbridge location.

The company will transfer operations from the current base at Osterley in west London to Knightsbridge in order to enable the on-site support of IT systems by staff, competerweekly.com reports.

Harrods has set itself a target of achieving zero downtime, with this move aimed at helping to achieve the target.

John Dilkes, manager of network infrastructure and security, said: “We want to run all our production systems here in Knightsbridge to support the 900 tills in the store.”

The roof of the Harrods building was reinforced to allow the data centre to be built on the top.

Another company recently changing its data centre infrastructure was BT.

The telecoms firm has decommissioned over 4,000 servers in the last six months in an attempt to save energy and money through power usage efficiencies, vnunet.com reported last week.

I highlighted this article to illustrate that the pressures of data center management, of delivering the IT infrastructure within the constraints of the data center space, power and cooling are transversal. They transcend industries, from in the example above Harrods to BT.

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