Project description

Located in a secured area on the roof of the Academic Resource Centre, the new South Campus Data Centre (SCDC) marks a massive improvement to the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus’ information technology infrastructure. The original data centre was built in 1997, but over the intervening 14 years, UTSC had added 50% more building space, the student, staff and faculty populations had grown by 100% and there was a massive migration of paper-based business processes onto its IT infrastructure. These factors stretched the existing data centre to beyond full capacity. The SCDC was the first step towards the creation of a data centre cluster at UTSC. The two data centres were cross-connected, establishing a fail-resistant network and systems infrastructure.