Case Studies

Harrods
on365 installs APC InfraStruXure® architecture to top the world’s most famous retail brand

Harrods of Knightsbridge selected an APC InfraStruXure® solution form on365 to provision the growth of IT services for the next decade. Their new data centre enjoys the best views of London from the roof of the Brompton Road store. Harrods is a huge enterprise by any measure; the Brompton Road store covers 4.5 acres, it has over 1 million square feet of retail space with in excess of 900 tills and over 2500 staff. A busy day will see as many 300,000 shoppers through its doors in the space of 12 hours, and on many sales days the store takes over £10m. Due to changing business needs their two existing server rooms had reached their maximum capacity in terms of space, power and cooling. In considering how to address the situation, two options were explored to either try to create additional space within their existing facilities, or otherwise to locate a brand new facility within the store...  find out more about how on365 provided the ideal solution to Harrods critical power and cooling requirements.

Kingston Technology
Putting quality delivery at the heart of its reputation

Kingston Technology is a world class designer and manufacturer of memory products for personal computers, servers and workstations, laser printers and, increasingly, handheld and portable electronic devices such as digital cameras and PDAs. The company’s EMEA headquarters in Sunbury-on-Thames provides the hub for sales, marketing and distribution throughout the region. As Mark Brackley, MIS Director, puts it:  “One of the focuses for this office is to ensure that we can deliver on the company’s next day delivery policy. If we can’t deliver next day it means lost business, disappointed customers and, ultimately, damage to our reputation.".. find out more about how on365 ensure Kingston Technology can deliver

Liverpool University AIMES Grid Services
Cutting-edge future technologies look for rejuvenated power and cooling design to match

The AIMES Centre (Advanced Internet Methods and Emergent Systems), part of the University of Liverpool, is a pioneer in the application of ‘Grid’ technologies for regional business development. Developing the technological capabilities to fulfill their brief required some innovative thinking and AIMES decided the way forward was to develop their own facility for hosting applications in order to capitalise on the University’s strength in the E-business sector. This led to the AIMES Grid Services project. As the demand for AIMES’ services and its client list increased, so the need to establish appropriate data capabilities grew also. it was clear, according to Dr Jim Mooney that the need to power and cool high availability and high density IT was the critical issue... find out more about how on365 pulled out all the stops to provided an innovative solution to Liverpool University's critical power and cooling requirements.

Clapham Junction
Protecting Britain's busiest railway station

Clapham Junction is Britain's busiest railway station with more than two thousand five hundred trains, an average of one every twenty seconds, passing through each day.  Over two thousand passengers ride through the station every minute during the morning and evening peak periods.  As part of a national development project, it was identified as being a key site where upgrading the level of power protection would reduce the incidence of signalling faults and the resulting delays... find out more about how on365 helped protect Clapham Junction