Smarter Greener Learning

The PSBA co-location facility

Stephen Frith

PSBA Commercial Manager

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Topics

• A quick overview of the PSBA programme

• Some detail of the PSBA co-location facility that is being developed

• Green considerations for data-centres in future and the Welsh Public Sector data-centre strategy

• Open questions and conversation

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What is PSBA?

• Public Sector Broadband Aggregation

• A fully cross sector collaborative programme

• A physical communication network, shared by the public sector in Wales

• An enabler:– Same physical infrastructure

– One less barrier to controlled information sharing

– Different sector representation in the same room

• A new way of working:– Cross sector governance

– Cross sector funding model

• A Platform for shared services

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PSBA services

• Current:– Connectivity services– Technical wide area network design support– Filtered internet access

• In development:– Telephone services– Video services– Data centre based services

• Requested– Enhanced internet filtering– Email filtering

• Longer term vision– Cloud computing– Unified communications

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The PSBA co-location facility

Final commercial arrangements still pending. Subject to satisfactory resolution:

• 60 racks

• Connected to PSBA Network (so to all public sector offices)

• 7.3Kw per rack

• n+1 resilient power

• n+1 resilience for cooling

• Security– Internal secure shell (Modusec by Remtec)

– CC TV and 24hr staffed facility

– Electronic access control – room and rack

• Power usage effectiveness (PUE) target under 1.5– Free cooler unit (starts to reduce burden at 19˚, free under 7˚)

– Hot air containment (full segregation and brush strips and blanking panels)

– Settings: inlet temperature 24˚

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Hot Aisle Plenum return

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External experts

• Supplier expertise

• Capitoline

• Workspace Technologies Ltd

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Making it green

• Include sustainability in the evaluation criteria

– Balance higher cost with lower PUE

• Shared by the public sector

– Increase utilisation (fill it quickly)

– Reduce number of smaller facilities

• Re-use of existing building

• The balance of power demands, power provided (per rack), cooling technologies and size

• The cost per Kw versus number of racks

• The balance point is constantly moving

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An all Wales public sector strategy

• The UK data centre strategy

– http://writetoreply.org/govictstrategy/

– 10 to 12 secure, resilient services

• Welsh input being developed

• PSBA approach

– A path to aggregation

– 6 to 10 network attached facilities

– Virtualised data-centres

– Opportunity for further consolidation

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Questions

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Contact details

• www.psba.org.uk

• Stephen Frith

• 078 9422 9422