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Cancer Research UK employs GroundWork for IT infrastructure

on 2nd Jul 2008

Cancer Research UK employs GroundWork for IT infrastructure

DSP, is proud to have implemented the system - GroundWork enables administrators to monitor Cancer Research UK's technology estate through centralised dashboards and weather maps. With the implementation of GroundWork, the charity is expected to improve visibility of its systems and networks, including drill-down technology, and also view historical data in graphical format. It can also customise its dashboards and reports.

Cancer Research UK has deployed enterprise monitor and alert system, GroundWork Monitor Professional, to keep a watch on all IT issues within the organisation.

Cancer Research UK needed a system that could manage databases of huge amounts of research information for easy availability and accessibility and keep back-end systems always online. It also wanted to control the entire IT infrastructure of network, servers, databases and applications through a single system.

Jacky Duncan, operation team leader of information systems at Cancer Research UK, said: "We needed a comprehensive tool like GroundWork with an interface where we could immediately see the source of problems and take action."

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GroundWork uses enterprise-class open source architecture to provide a platform that unifies open source systems and network management and monitoring technologies.
The system includes open source tools such as Nagios, Syslog, SNMPTT, nmap and RRDtool. GroundWork can be deployed for a fixed annual subscription, which includes support, upgrades and patches.

Nathan Lynch, infrastructure manager of information systems at Cancer Research UK, said: "GroundWork provides the flexibility of open source but with a professionally written and supported, easy to use interface. We selected DSP because they offer the most cost-effective solution that matched our requirements."

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