The Dartmouth College Data Center facilities are a vital part of the campus Information, Technology & Consulting (ITC) infrastructure. ITC executes data center management standards and best practices. These facilities provide a secure, enterprise-wide, reliable, and redundant infrastructure for the delivery of mission-critical college systems.
In managing the IT enterprise and maintaining the infrastructure, ITC ensures that high-quality information technology services are available to all administrative, academic, research, and high-performance computing systems.
The Data Center facility benefits:
- 24/7 access—high availability connectivity to the Internet and campus network resources
- Secure data networks—ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Dartmouth College's information resources
- Service monitoring—ensures physical security and operational integrity of systems and services
- Environmental management— updated power distribution, cooling systems and environmental monitoring services
- Business continuity—proactive plan to protect the college community and secure the continuity of its campus systems, programs, and services
- Load balancing—provide continuous availability of college-wide applications and services across campuses
- Reliable and scalable—service design includes serviceability of infrastructure components as well as ease of expansion to accommodate future growth.
- Server virtualization management—allow seamless transition between virtual clusters as service loads change and transition clusters between data centers, providing system recovery and high availability and simplified management.