Strengthening critical infrastructure with secure colocation
A healthcare organisation operating aging data centres faced serious challenges. The centres, which hosted critical national infrastructure, were at risk to environmental issues such as restricted power, sub-standard cooling and a building design prone to flooding.
The close proximity of their facilities also made them vulnerable to regional communication disruptions, which would severely impact the delivery of essential services. This would draw negative attention on a national scale and the remediation costs to avoid an outage, estimated in the hundreds of thousands of pounds, were unsustainable.
To mitigate these risks, the organisation chose to partner with Brightsolid on a strategic colocation solution, not only for its technical capabilities but also due to its ideal geographic location and the positive rapport they felt with the team.
The Solution
The customer migrated one of their environments to Brightsolid’s purpose-built, tier III designed Dundee data centre, immediately providing multi-layered security, high-density power and a 100% uptime guarantee. There is also future scope to enhance geographic resilience by potentially moving their second environment to Brightsolid’s Aberdeen data centre, reducing regional outage risks. High-capacity communication links were established between the customer’s headquarters and Brightsolid’s data centre, ensuring seamless connectivity.
Brightsolid also supported the entire migration process, providing expert consultancy, project management, and a smooth “lift-and-shift” transition.
Operational Benefits:
- Immediate risk mitigation: Colocation solved issues related to the aging infrastructure, avoiding substantial upfront investment of rebuilding their data centres.
- Outsourced management: By moving to a managed service, the responsibility for the data centre shifts to Brightsolid, simplifying operations and reducing the customer’s in-house burden.
- Futureproofing: The customer gained the flexibility to expand into private and public cloud services using Brightsolid’s infrastructure as the backbone.
- Refocused IT resource: With Brightsolid managing the data centre, the customer’s IT staff can focus on strategic tasks, improving the value they deliver to their organisation.