Rightmove plc has selected ControlCircle to provide comprehensive datacentre services along with Intelligent BGP Internet connectivity to ensure systems availability and resilience, crucial given the level of traffic to its residentail property portal Luke West, Rightmove plc’s technical operations managers, says:
“I like the way ControlCircle works. It’s great to find a company who’s so friendly, flexible and I love the speed at which they work. They’ve been extremely helpful, very proactive and have been able to get very competitive prices for us in terms of hardware and datacentre services, namely rack space and network connectivity.”
“Given we now have three datacentres, it made far more sense and less hassle to work with a specialist like ControlCircle to consolidate some of this operational
overhead.”
• Shift from two datacentres, with all hardware mirrored at each (four of everything), to a three datacentre model with one system at each
• Rightmove saves a quarter on purchasing hardware (three of everything is
now bought), although datacentre costs a third higher
• Hardware doesn’t sit about in a quiescent state, and a datacentre can be taken down for maintenance without affecting service to customers and the public
• Better than 4-nines availability offered, meaning IT operational 99.99% of the time - just 18 minutes downtime in 2007 for maintenance purposes
