The Computing Data Centre (CDC) at LYIT have received a substantial donation of data centre equipment from Yahoo Inc.
Pictured are members of the LYIT’s Eco-Tech Society (Denis Bourne, Willie Doherty, Shane Flynn, Saurabh Negi, and Gary Boyce), Lecturers (Edwina Sweeney and John O’Raw), and Thomas Dowling, Head of Department of Computing.
Modern data centre facilities are an essential component in the move to cloud/green computing, a discipline taught to honours degree level at LYIT.
Thomas Dowling, Head of Department of Computing, welcomed the Yahoo donation.
“This equipment will give LYIT students superb access to a real world environment and will allow them to hone their skills. We’d like to thank Yahoo for their generous contribution.”
The equipment coming from Yahoo will be used for –
1. Enterprise applications and security teaching.
2. VMWare, Hyper-V and KVM virtualization and private cloud servers.
3. Project servers for award year students.
4. Project servers for MSc/post-graduate student projects.
The CDC is a teaching and research data centre run by the Computing department which replicates the work environment and offers hands-on learning for students.
It is used by 3rd and 4th year under-graduates and by post-graduate students, in addition to being a home for research projects in smart grid, software development and security.
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