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YHMAN Shared Virtual Data Centre - Update

9.40am to 10.05pm

YHMAN has established shared data centre services that meet education, wider public and commercial sector needs. Our vision is to create a collaborative centre of excellence and build on a mutually beneficial 'model' with the belief that by sharing assets (equipment, intellect, funding) we can deliver more, better, for all concerned and it can be used for Research Computing, for the benefit of Academia, Health, Commerce for the greater good. Our Approach is pragmatic - build, review, commercialise. Our achievement is the UK's first triangulated data centre and one of the worlds' largest spanning single resource pool data centres. Our unique features:

· Multi-site geographic mirrored data with High Available compute for real-time resilience

· Shared Costs Group - sector members benefit from success

· We understand the business of HE, FE and associated sectors

· A Community Cloud focused on sector needs allowing sector & independent software vendors (ISV) to optimise requirements & solutions to our needs

· Innovating sector specific products (e.g. UniVault)

· Supplying best in class network services

· Place to be for research datasets

· Devolved management as appropriate

· Client data remains the client's ... (always)!

Speaker: Ed Carter - YHMAN

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