Queen Mary University of London chooses Virtus Data Centres to host its business critical IT platfor

June 25, 2013 - PRLog -- London, 13th June 2013 – Virtus Data Centres (“Virtus”), a leading London provider of environmentally efficient, modern, interconnected carrier neutral data centres, announced today that it has completed implementation of a new IT platform in its LON1 data centre for Queen Mary, University of London. Queen Mary is one of the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions and Virtus’ LON1 data centre now supports all of its business critical IT applications.

With around 16,900 students, 3,800 staff and an annual turnover of £300m, Queen Mary is one of the biggest University of London colleges. It teaches and researches across a wide range of subjects including the humanities, social sciences, law, medicine, dentistry, science and engineering. Queen Mary is also a member of the prestigious Russell Group which represents 24 leading UK universities that are committed to maintaining the very best research, an outstanding teaching and learning experience and unrivalled links with businesses and the public sector.

Jonathan O’Regan, Queen Mary’s Assistant Director IT infrastructure, said: “Virtus’ facility is hosting the core infrastructure of our new IT platform supporting the University’s business critical applications. Queen Mary chose to partner with Virtus because of their highly pragmatic and professional approach to doing business whilst delivering ‘best in breed’ data centre facilities.”

Neil Cresswell, CEO at Virtus, commented: “We are delighted that such a high profile educational and research organisation has chosen our facility to host its business critical platforms and applications. At Virtus we have a 100% track record of service availability and are committed to delivering an agile, scalable infrastructure platform to support Queen Mary’s business requirements.”

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