Publication - Advice and guidance
Scotland's Digital Future: Data Hosting and Data Centre Strategy for the Scottish Public Sector
The data hosting and data centre strategy sets the vision that Scotland’s public sector data hosting is cost-effective, carbon neutral and makes appropriate use of cloud technology, for the delivery of efficient and highly available ICT services.
Annex G - Co-Location Service Model for the public sector
| Service Model | Advantages | Disadvantages | Exemplar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co-Location | Co-location hosting allows a business to still own their own server equipment; however, instead of storing it in their own data centre, they instead are able to store it in rented space in a colocation hosting centre. This facility provides the infrastructure to run an ICT service where it typically provides, the building, power, UPS, air conditioning, fire detection prevention and suppression, monitoring and alerting, security and network connectivity. The client organisation will provide their own servers, racks, power distribution unit and ICT resource to manage the server. | ||
|
|
Scottish Prison Services ( SPS) Scottish Prison Services had an ageing internal ICT facility and an unreliable expensive offsite disaster recovery function all of which created a number of risks for the organisation in terms of continuity and operations. The nature of the organisation and the sensitivity of their data was the driver to implementing a co-location model as it also avoided the cost of upgrading the existing environment and power consumption estimated at £20m. The solution was to host their primary facility at the Scottish Government data centre at Saughton House and their secondary facility at South Lanarkshire Council's data centre in Hamilton. The solution reused services that were already in existence in terms of infrastructure (cooling, fire suppression systems, power etc.), security and monitoring and allowed SPS to concentrate their resources on the virtualisation of their server estate to further reduce their costs on hardware, power and licence requirements. The new architecture has also allowed the secondary site to provide more live services such as an additional live internet link and also to have fewer single points of failure and a higher status in terms of national emergency as they are now a critical facility. | |
Contact
There is a problem
Thanks for your feedback