CampusEAI Consortium Expands CampusCloud Datacenter Footprint to Europe

Cleveland – January 11, 2012 - CampusEAI Consortium (CampusEAI) today announces the expansion of its CampusCloud footprint to London, United Kingdom.  The addition to CampusEAI’s facilities comes as a response to increased demand throughout Europe.

CampusCloud is a hosting platform utilized by colleges and universities to host a variety of enterprise applications, including:

• Enterprise Portal and Intranet
• Content Management Systems
• Email and Calendaring Systems
• Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
• Learning Management Systems
• Identity Management Systems
• Business Intelligence Systems
• Disaster Recovery

CampusEAI’s London-based CampusCloud datacentersare powered by two hosting sites, the brand new Telehouse West^® and Park Royal Equinix^®centers¹,  which are equipped with a variety of top-line features, including: 

• Four redundant HV power systems, from separate grids to each building on the Docklands site and N+ 1 redundant standby generators with a minimum of 24 hours autonomy at full capacity
• 8 x 2.5MVA 11kV Generators and 2(N +1) redundant UPS floor by floor
• 6 x 2.7MW chillers N+2 configuration and Room Air Conditioning Units (RACUs) to provide down flow chilled water system at N+25%
• RACU with bundled floor area and water leakage detection and monitoring
• 800mm raised floor design with airflow space to provide the most efficient cooling
• Fitted with fully addressable two-stage fire detection system that monitors the under floor and the room
• Detectors with 50% mix of optical and ionization installed split across 2 separate zonal-loops, to meet BS 5839, 6266, 5445 and 5588
• Independent client card identification access system as well as secure & monitored single person point of entry, physically guarded 24/7 with integrated digital video camera surveillance

CampusEAI provides services to a variety of institutions throughout Europe, including: |

• Imperial College, London, UK
• National University of Ireland, Galway
• Havering Sixth Form College, Hornchurch, Essex, UK
• Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
• University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

"We are pleased to expand our CampusCloud footprint to Europe," said Anjli Jain, Executive Director of the CampusEAI Consortium. “Increasing our infrastructure to further enhance CampusCloud throughout Europe will better enable us to provide members with the top-notch resources and cost-effective service they’ve come to know and expect from CampusEAI."

For further information, members can contact their CampusEAI relationship manager. Non-members seeking further information can contact Corey Close at corey_close@campuseai.org or visit the CampusEAI website www.campuseai.org.

About CampusEAI

CampusEAI Consortium is a global information technology services and consulting provider focused on helping its members implement cost-effective and timely IT solutions. More than 260 members belong to the CampusEAI Consortium, including Florida State University, New Mexico State University, Louisiana State University, Brookdale Community College and University of Maine System. For more information, visit www.campuseai.org.