New Zealand’s Massey University weathered a series of IT threats in the early 2000s, from data centre failure to malicious actions taken by an aggrieved sub-contractor. These threats led senior management to become increasingly concerned about the university’s dependence on its IT systems.

Together Rittal and Massey University developed a Rittal Data Centre Container (RDCC) footprint including: 12 racks, UPS New Wave (2 by RI40 – each able to be fitted with 4 x 20kW modules, with 1 RI20 able to be fitted with 2 x 20kW modules), Direct Free Cooling Hansa units – starting with 3 units, later adding 2 extra 10kW DFC units and Full Monitoring – CMC III. Massey worked closely with Rittal New Zealand and Rittal Germany to ensure that the solution met budget requirements. Learn more about this data center project in Rittal’s Massey Protected Against IT Disaster Case Study.

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New Zealand’s Massey University weathered a series of IT threats in the early 2000s, from data centre failure to malicious actions taken by an aggrieved sub-contractor. These threats led senior management to become increasingly concerned about the university’s dependence on its IT systems.

Massey is a true multi-campus university, with campuses in Palmerston North, Wellington and Auckland regions. Though far spread, IT services are strongly centralised. The university recognised that continued IT operation, and indeed general university functions, would be badly impacted in the event of an IT disaster. It was crucial that should disaster strike one campus, all others could carry on as normal.

The university engaged Standby Consulting in 2005 to conduct a business impact and risk analysis and write a disaster recovery plan. This review confirmed that in the event of a disaster, current IT infrastructure would not withstand or recover within an adequate timeframe…

Though the university spans three major campuses, IT Services are very centralised and data storage requirements grow rapidly. By the start of 2014, Massey had over a petabyte of IT storage and was running 1,152 virtual servers, up from 912 at…>>Read More