DC Infrastructure

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• Significant price savings
• Access to stocked items
• Contract and warranty support (optional)
• Installation & support (optional)
• Access to our Pre-Sales Consultants and roadmap visibility
• Design authority ensuring validated designs

Arup is a leading civil and building construction company offering diversified general contracting and design/build services to private clients and public agencies throughout the world. Its services include general contracting, pre-construction planning, design, and comprehensive project management.

The company is recognised for its major complex building project commitments as well as its capacity to perform large and complex transportation and heavy civil construction. Through mergers and acquisitions, Arup had acquired a number of data centres. The company decided to build a brand-new data centre to be shared by all entities.

“Creative ITC minimised risk by developing a low level design and collaborating with us to validate our sizing assumptions for server blades and memory”

Jig Patel Data centre lead, Arup

After evaluating a number of leading platforms, Arup selected the Cisco® Unified Computing System (UCS), which unifies network, servers, storage access, and virtualisation into a single, cohesive system.

Arup have already moved almost all of their current VM workloads from their London HQ to the new data center, using VMware products to transfer servers, virtual machines, and data over the network.

Creative has gained the distinction of VMware Master Services Competency in Data Centre Virtualisation. Independently validated by customers, the blue-ribbon standard is only awarded to partners with the highest service capability and expertise in vSphere environments and digital infrastructure. Contact us today for more information.