Research Data Centre

The University of Ottawa offers a data centre to securely host your servers. The Colocation Data Centre is located in Marion Hall and is available free of charge for all researchers at the University of Ottawa. For more information, contact the Service Desk.

Our Colocation Data Centre, located in Marion Hall is accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Provides. It offers a safe and reliable hosting environment with controlled climatic conditions, and secure, collegial access for researchers and business units.

State-of-the-art facility

Our state-of-the-art facility boasts a secure, temperature-controlled environment and our power-distribution systems are protected with UPS backup, providing enhanced stability for applications and processes. Rather than invest in and maintain expensive infrastructure (wall plates, individual networks, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units, physical server space), researchers can host their servers in the Colocation Data Centre.

Security

Access to the Data Centre is controlled through an electronic key system, and cameras have been installed throughout the facility to provide an additional measure of security
Data centre access is limited to server owners and their delegates
The front side of server cabinets can be individually locked on request
To protect individual systems, hot aisle access is restricted to the facility managers

Reliability

Servers and systems are protected against power anomalies
The facility’s cooling system is resilient and recuperates heat generated by servers to pre-heat adjacent buildings

Speed and connectivity

Each server has a free connection to the University of Ottawa network at speeds of 1 Gbps and additional bandwidth can be provided for special requests and requirements
The facility has 10 Gbps connectivity to the uOttawa campus, the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION), and to Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network (CANARIE)
Reserved public and private research IP addresses are available, and special isolated networks can be created on demand
Access to systems can be performed remotely on campus or through virtual private network (VPN) off-campus. KVM switches (keyboard, video and mouse) can be made available upon request.

Support

The Colocation Data Centre is designed for autonomous groups. Information Technology provides basic operating system support to research groups that don’t have access to IT expertise. Analyst support is provided on a best effort basis.

Target users

Faculties and services requiring 24-hour access to their servers
Researchers and their delegates who wish to host their rack mount servers in a secure, reliable, and cost-efficient environment
Clients who wish to more securely house their data and computation systems