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Darren Unwin , IS Operations Director at DB Systel UK
NODE4 KEEPS DB SYSTEL UK ON THE RIGHT TRACK WITH MANAGED , COLOCATED DATA CENTRE SERVICES
DB Systel UK needed an IT partner that could help it to assemble and manage a highly complex IT infrastructure .
Darren Unwin , IS Operations Director at DB Systel UK , discusses the organisation ’ s data centre migration and how Node4 ’ s managed data centre solution played a pivotal part in ensuring operations were able to continue seamlessly .
B Systel UK , the digital
D partner of Deutsche Bahn and subsidiary of DB Systel GmbH , provides managed IT services across the DB Group and selected European public transport companies , including the Arriva Group in the UK , Arriva Netherlands , Arriva Denmark and XC Trains Ltd .
DB Systel UK has a strong rail heritage and a deep knowledge of the public transport sector , with many of its employees joining from British Rail before its privatisation in the late
1990s . The organisation ’ s core services include IT hosting , compute resources , consultancy , cybersecurity protection and database management .
DB Systel UK has to pitch on the open market for many of its contracts – even for those relating to other DB Group companies . Because of this , DB Systel UK ’ s services need to demonstrate value for money , strong security posture , scalability and reliability – just like any other managed service provider .
The choice of data centre provider is therefore of paramount importance . www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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