This past July, DoIT signed a multi-year lease with Allegis to lease 1200 square feet of computer room space in the Retirement Living Building located in the Research Park. Allegis has a Tier 3 data center that has full power and cooling redundancy. The BWTECH Research Park (RP) data center is a wonderful facility that will greatly enhance our business continuity and support additional research computing capabilities on campus.

Duringthe fall, DoIT will be working to relocate equipment used for critical campus services now in Public Policy to the research park. One benefit to the campus is that the BWTECH facility is on a different power feed than the campus and if power is lost to the campus, we may be able to keep power to the RP data center.

A second benefit is that this RP data center has considerably more cooling capacity and electrical capacity than any of our existing data centers. This provides an opportunity to expand our research computing facilities over the next few years should a large grant opportunity arise.

Finally, as part of improving the campus infrastructure, Physical Plant and Facilities are improving business continuity for the chilled water on campus and this will improve the PUP data center. Once this is done, DoIT will utilize the PuP facility to expand our support for department and research-based computing systems that are now limited due to cooling in the Engineering data center.