Enterprise Data Centre up and running

As many as 3,000 standard servers in 147 racks can fit comfortably into the university’s new Enterprise Data Centre (EDC2). The highly secure 465-square-metre facility, which became fully functional in June, was designed at UVic. An additional 400 square metres of space in the new facility, that are currently dedicated to storage, can be converted to data centre use in the future as the university’s computing needs grow. Servers will continue to be migrated to the new data centre over the next few months. EDC1, in the Clearihue Building, which supports approximately 1,120 servers, will continue to operate as a production service.