Connectix Net10G Installed at North Tyneside Council

News : May 8, 2008

 

In only 6 years Cobalt Park has grown to become the UK's largest office park and has recently celebrated the completion of over 1 million sq ft of highly specified offices. There are currently over 14,000 people employed at Cobalt.

The Quadrant (formerly Cobalt 16) is one of the key buildings in the development, a 100,770 sq ft (9,361 sq m) air conditioned state-of-the-art building. This new development for North Tyneside Council has been designed to house a number of services for the community it serves including Information & Communication Technology, Communications, Human Resources, Legal & Democratic Services, Members Services, Regeneration and Revenue Services. A total of 950 staff and Council Members.

North Tyneside had a number of unsuitable buildings and was keen to move its staff to a modern and efficient Council hub at the 'The Quadrant' within one of the most successful business parks in the country.

The council approved plans by the ICT Department to remove single points of failure and provide resilient IT services in accordance with the needs and priorities of the authority.

The data centre housed in 'The Quadrant' is the cornerstone of that plan. The main goals were to get all ICT equipment centralised. This would allow the ICT Service to concentrate its ability to manage and maintain the environment whilst enabling the implementation of robust information storage and back up regimes...

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