Innovation in action in the Datum Cloud Hub
Vissensa demonstrates innovation and expertise with the IBM Enterprise Cloud System
FARNBOROUGH – 23 September 2014: Datum Datacentres is proud to highlight exciting developments from one of its founding clients, Vissensa, the privately owned cloud and technical consulting company. In June of this year Vissensa took delivery of the IBM systemZ mainframe-based Enterprise Cloud System, a first for the UK – and the impressively capable machine is now installed in Datum’s FRN1 data centre.
A key member of the Datum Cloud Hub, Vissensa has an international client base for which it is actively developing a range of new packaged business solutions running on ZLinux, including Print as a Service and Database as a Service.
Steve Grooms, CEO of Vissensa, comments: “The zEnterprise provides an ideal environment for us to develop new solutions and we are excited by the opportunities it opens up to our clients. By extending the mainframe platform and making it possible to create a hybrid cloud in one single managed environment, the new system offers us a new set of possibilities for deploying new workloads and addresses many of the complexity and integration issues associated with today’s data center implementations. It is also highly secure and with its highly energy efficient design, is a strong contributor to green computing, reducing energy consumption and facilities requirements by up to 80%. Datum’s FRN1 is a perfect complement to the zEnterprise. Datum’s highly secure, highly resilient facilities reinforce the zEnterprise security while the environmentally intelligent cooling further supports the zEnterprise’s contribution to sustainability.”
Dominic Phillips, MD of Datum, adds: “Vissensa’s commitment to innovation and client service is a great demonstration of the types of expertise available to clients via highly secure direct private circuit connections within the Datum Cloud Hub ecosystem. By bringing their infrastructure to our data centre, enterprise clients are able to select from a broad choice of partners for managed services, connectivity, hosting, cloud platforms and more to support their business strategies and facilitate an effective journey to cloud and hybrid compute.”
About Datum Datacentres
Datum provides leading-edge carrier and cloud neutral co-location data centres to enterprises and service providers. As part of the Attenda IT Services group, delivering always-on availability, robust security and enterprise class service is hard wired into our operations. Our data centres are trusted as secure environments for content, data and business critical IT to connect with a neutral choice of networks and cloud service providers.
Datum FRN1 has capacity for more than 1,000 co-location racks within a high security campus in Farnborough, which is fast developing as a strategic London-edge data centre hub. The facility incorporates a pressurised free cooling design that delivers enhanced environmental efficiencies and supports high density computing to 30kW per rack as standard. Always on availability is supported by resilience in both design and operations underwritten by a 100% uptime SLA with helpdesk and remote hands services which are available 24×365.
About Vissensa
Vissensa is a privately owned company offering technical solutions including secure and resilient hosted and Managed Services affording our clients tiered, flexible and cost effective services either on premise or from data centre locations which best suits their computing requirements.
Vissensa’s data centre solution is a high quality, service level assured product designed for private and public sector organisations that have ruled out hosting equipment in data centre’s with low levels of infrastructure and security in place due to the business risk. Our data centre clients recognise the value in using worry free, tightly managed and secure environments and feel the benefits of an agreed, consistent service which scales with their requirements.
Vissensa provide a combination of hosted and on premise “hybrid” cloud provisioning or specific IT infrastructure project consulting, implementation and support and partner with major vendors to provide strategic technical project consulting for their clients.
