Education
Stable IT infrastructure as the foundation for teaching, research and operations
Universities, universities of applied sciences, cantonal schools and research institutions operate increasingly complex IT infrastructures: server and storage systems for research data, data centres for large-scale computations, networks for thousands of users at the same time.
CND plans, operates and maintains the data centre infrastructures of educational institutions. We bring technical depth without political overhead, clear processes without bloated project structures, and we know the requirements of the public education sector.
Typical challenges
- Heterogeneous infrastructure from different procurement cycles and manufacturers
- Strict data protection requirements for research data and personal information
- Limited internal IT capacity for specialised data centre tasks
- High availability requirements during exam periods and semester operations
- Requirements for auditable and documented operational processes
CND services for this industry
- Audits to assess the current state of the data centre infrastructure
- Consulting and planning for modernisations, expansions and relocations
- IMAC-D support for infrastructure changes during ongoing operation
- Connectivity services and standards-compliant cabling
- Media management and certified data erasure for decommissioned storage media
- Cleaning services for server rooms and data centre environments
Practical examples from the education sector
Two examples from the environment of educational and research institutions: the support of hybrid platforms and the preparation for cloud transformations.
👉 Hybrid library systems between operation and transformation
👉 When knowledge becomes the decisive success factor
Why CND
CND knows the requirements of public institutions from years of collaboration with authorities, research institutions and regulated environments. We work in a structured and documented way and deliver solutions that hold up even under public procurement processes and tight budgets.
Our teams are on site when it matters and coordinate in a vendor-independent way wherever, over the years, different procurement cycles have grown together into a single infrastructure.