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Crown Hosting Data Centres provides public sector customers with assured, low cost,
secure, scalable and flexible data centre collocation, coupled with low-latency connectivity
between data centres. Crown Hosting Data Centres provides these services through the
Crown Hosting framework - allowing for easy access to simple, transparent, ‘pay-for-whatyou-use’ pricing with a selection of durations, no volume commitment and easy termination.
Crown Hosting Data Centres uses best of breed energy efficiency technology, providing
customers compliance with the HMG Greening Government ICT strategy, maximising their
green practices.
Crown Hosting Data Centres is not only the most agile but also the most cost-effective way to deliver your
hosting requirements large or small.
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Highly resilient Tier 3+ facilities - brand new, built from the ground up
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Dedicated public sector data halls - assured by CPNI and PGA to enable rapid accreditation
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Business continuity - multiple separate data centres permitting synchronous replication and
secure environment for back up data and recovery systems
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Comprehensive infrastructure reporting - insight into data centre performance and efficiency
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Easy to buy - available now through call-off-agreements under a single supplier framework
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Simple “pay for what you use” pricing with a selection of durations
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Scalable and resilient connectivity to PSN, N3 and RLI/SLI services and high speed
data centre interconnect
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Lowest total cost of ownership - industry leading guaranteed efficiency
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Rapid on-boarding - low and high density compute in any configuration
Crown Hosting Data Centres: Product Overview
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Data Centre Colocation Services
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Pay for what you use (£ per kW)
Close Proximity G-Cloud
IaaS Suppliers
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Cabinet Space (47U, 800x1200mm)
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50kW maximum per cabinet
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Floor Space, minimum 2kW per m2 average
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Electricity metering per customer and
per kWh used
IaaS supplier neutral facilities
Green Credentials
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Free-cooling >99% of the year
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PUE commercially fixed
(PUE v2 L3 – Advanced)
Campuses
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ISO/IEC 30134-2 (2014) PUE3 (advanced)
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Two secure campuses within synchronous
replication distance
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BS EN50600 Enhanced Class 4
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ISO 14001 certified
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Wiltshire – 38 acres
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BREEAM very good
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Hampshire – 36 acres
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Five multi-MW data centres per campus
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Each campus is solely owned and operated
by Ark
Rainwater harvesting to support the
evaporative cooling processes
Intelligent cooling control, automatically
and dynamically adjusts the environmental
controls to match the demand
Data Centres
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Each building is constructed from multiple
independent data centres (modules)
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99.999% power SLA, 2N UPS plus
standby generators
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Each module is a Tier III+ concurrently
maintainable data centre
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Cooling system uses external air (direct air)
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Exceeds ISO8 cleanliness
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ASHRAE 2011 temperature and humidity
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Hot desks and dedicated client rooms for staff
Security
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Operational Excellence
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Each building manned 24x7 by dedicated
operational and security staff
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12 month rolling programme of planned
preventive maintenance
Service Management
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24x7 ITIL:2011 aligned service desk
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Centralised contact point,
command and control
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Regular and comprehensive reporting
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Service and customer relationship management
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Aligned to CPNI, PGA and MOD standards
Customer On-Boarding
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Per campus and separately per data centre
layered security offering defence in depth
augmented with security zoning
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SC and DV clearance staff available on request
Intelligent Hands
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Telecommunications
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Carrier neutral facilities
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Multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers on-net
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PSN, N3, RLI, SLI, internet and private MPLS
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Multiple diverse entry points
Dedicated and experienced team to help plan and
facilitate migration into the data centre
Low cost 24x7 Intelligent Hands service to
undertake tasks under customer direction
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