Bank Quits London Datacentre
Dresdner Kleinwort is relocating its London Docklands datacentre in a multimillion-pound project that will see a complete revamp of hardware, software and management processes. The bank used an automated discovery system from Tideway to assess its existing infrastructure, cross-referencing the data with existing manual inventories and reports. “Relocating a datacentre is a very resource-intensive exercise, with the co-ordination of the logistics behind it being the trickiest part,” said John Bratkovics, Dresdner Kleinwort’s global head of networks, voice and collaboration technologies. “Upfront work in identifying equipment within the site, as well as communicating what has been moved, was essential.”