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Interview by Stéphane Etienne, Hypallages
EBRC AND THE UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG:
A WINNING PARTNERSHIP
High service availability, 120 computer racks that can accommodate up to 5,000 servers, a usable surface area of 450 m²: the Data Center of the University of Strasbourg is the result of an ambitious project initiated in 2013. This state-of-the-art infrastructure, which has been operational since November 2019, aims at providing the university and its institutional and academic partners with a unique hosting facility for their IT equipment and data. The Real Estate Department and the Digital Department called upon EBRC to design and build this highly technical space. Romaric David, Head of the Data Center at the University of Strasbourg, describes the background of this successful partnership. — A PARTNERSHIP FORGED FROM THE OUTSET OF THE PROJECT
of a Data Center expert. We needed a partner with both certifications and concrete references who could provide
“Given that this was a large-scale project and that it will likely
us with practical feedback. For a project to be successful,
remain the only one of its kind, the University of Strasbourg
you have to pay attention to a thousand details and we did
wanted to get the best help possible and enlisted the advice
not have enough experience in this area. EBRC immediately
