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Major Partitions Announces Silver Certification LEED-Compliance

Major Partitions is proud to announce it is LEED-compliant, continuing its leadership in environmental programs.

Built to meet high quality standards, all of Major Partitions’ products promote the reduction of waste, as well as reuse and recycling initiatives when it comes to steel and other products. Becoming Silver LEED-compliant is a major part of the future sustainability for Major Partitions, a leader in the supply of wire mesh products and services since 1888.

“We take environmental initiatives very seriously,” says Thomas Marchl, President of Major Partitions. “We do not produce harmful by-products, we are LEED-compliant, and we always use recycled paint. It’s not only about producing quality products for our customers, which we’ve been doing for over 100 years; it’s also about having a positive effect on the environment in all of our processes.”

Major Partitions’ line of products includes the TA-50 Military Lockers, which offer secure military storage alternatives. These steel lockers can be fit for any large area and are ideal for storing all types of military equipment – from duffle bags and personal items, to larger, heavier gear. Furthermore, Major Partitions’ products are a perfect choice for a LEED-compliant building.

Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized green-building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies intended to improve performance in metrics. LEED designates the following levels of certification: certified: 40-49 points; silver: 50-59 points; gold: 60-79 points; platinum: 80 points and above.

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Rackspace Wins Joint Server Farm Tender To Support Ministry of Defence (MoD) Websites

Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leader in hosting, has announced it has won a three year, competitive deal to provide fully managed support to the Joint Server Farm (JSF), a secure hosting environment for Ministry of Defence (MoD) websites. The partnership will see MoD, Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force websites consolidated onto a single, virtualised infrastructure to enable easier management, greater efficiencies and scalability.

Rackspace beat 18 other companies to win the contract to support the JSF following a European Journal Competition and tender for contract. Through the deal Rackspace will provide MoD partners with the flexibility to manage and change websites quickly to meet user demand. It will also provide enhanced security from firewalls and intrusion detection devices, which constantly monitor for threats, round-the-clock access to certified engineers and a 100% network uptime guarantee, backed by its service level agreement.

Rackspace’s EMEA managing director Brian Thomson said: “We are delighted to have extended our relationship with the MoD by winning this tender in what was a hard fought pitch by lots of companies. At a time when costs and efficiencies are being brought to the forefront, we know we can truly help simplify the MoD infrastructure to meet these challenges.”

The JSF is a single infrastructure for all services, websites and applications. It currently supports a number of well-known MoD campaigns, such as the recruiting website for the Army, Start Thinking Soldier as well as the Army Pathfinder programme. It also supports Navy and Air Force recruitment campaigns, all of the cadets’ sites, a number of admin sites and facilitates small short-term public information campaign sites.

The MoD created the JSF because it had lots of disparate sites on different infrastructures, which were hard to maintain, inefficient and unscalable. With the growing influence of the internet it was also decided that a central hosting UK resource that departments could tap into for their web requirements was needed. In addition to this, the MoD was bound to meet the Transformational Government Agenda (TGA), which requires rationalisation of websites across all government departments. The MoD also moved to virtual servers for its consolidated infrastructure to provide greater flexibility when managing the sites.

Around 70% of MoD websites are currently hosted on Rackspace infrastructure and this deal extends the company’s partnership with ArmyNET, the award-winning portal which allows soldiers to keep in touch with their families.

Rackspace consolidated 67 servers to 12 physical hypervisors and 72 virtual servers by implementing virtualisation across the MoD infrastructure. This solution when combined with a raft of changes to the contract cost model, including a reduction in SAN spindle storage costs, resulted in a reduction of overall costs. It also provides greater efficiencies for power and space, with a lower number of overall servers.

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