Biography
Based at the University of Leeds, Ed is the Business Manager for YHMAN Ltd, a joint venture company of eight Yorkshire & Humberside universities and is responsible for the development of the shared data centre facility. Ed is also the host organisation representative for the Jisc Regional Support Centres
Abstract
YHMAN Shared Virtual Data Centre
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: