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Thursday, 11 September 2008 00:00 |
ControlCircle has been selected by Rightmove to provide comprehensive datacentre services along with Intelligent BGP Internet connectivity to ensure systems availability and resilience.
Luke West, Rightmove plc’s technical operations managers, says: “We were one of the pioneers of using the web to advertise property for sale or rent, but we’re not an eBay for houses as we don’t serve the end-user. Our revenue comes from working directly with the property industry whether it be estate agent groups, individual branches, property developers or letting agents working in this country or abroad.”
Rightmove has shifted to a three datacenter approach but locating just one system at each. While it does incur slightly higher datacenter space costs, Rightmove saves a quarter on physical hardware purchases as only three of everything is now bought. West explains: “I have been working in datacenters for years and I really like this ‘n+1’ model. Hardware doesn’t sit about in a quiescent state, and it means we can take a datacenter down for maintenance, if we need to, without affecting service to our customers and the property buying public.”
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