Dear David (et al.), SPAT currently hosts 3 rackmount NAS boxes in H147 (with UPS's), with the prospect of an additional 2 arriving shortly. I would be extremely unhappy about moving these systems to Mech Eng as we backup some of these on systems that are already housed in Mech Eng. A while ago we were told that after the IT disaster, following a fire, at Southampton University, that we needed to provide offsite backup of our core data. The feeling was that Mech Eng is sufficiently far away from Huxley, that this was considered appropriately "offsite". I'm aware that ICT can provide a service to back up data offsite (e.g. data from Mech Eng is backed up at the Hammersmith Campus etc.), but these are services which have monthly / annual service charges. That said, we (SPAT), don't need a huge amount of space, but would need a rack with space for at least 5x 4U NAS boxes and a 1U UPS. These cannot be housed in an office as they're simply far too noisy. Rich -----Original Message----- From: physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk [mailto:physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Colling Sent: 09 June 2011 10:29 To: physics-departmental-computing Subject: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Hosting equipment in the Huxley machine room Dear All, I know that this was discussed at the last departmental computing meeting but things seem to have moved on. So I need a list of who hosts machines in the machine room in Huxley and what arrangements they would like if we are turfed out to make room for a big laser. In particular is there anybody who would be unhappy simply to move their machines over to Mech Eng and host them in ICT's machine rooms? If so why? I am not completely sure how quickly I need this information but the email from Jo implied sooner rather than later ... Best, david _______________________________________________ Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list Physics-Departmental-Computing@imperial.ac.uk https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing