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Digital Railway
Digital Railway
Iain King BSc MBCS CITP
Assoc Member of the Institution of Railway Operators
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Agenda
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Introductions
We care:
1. Hand-out
You can get involved:
1. Open Data links
IT in Network Rail
Digital Railway discussion slide pack
Questions as we go along
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Introductions
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South Wales Chair – Jeremy White
BCS President - Jos Creese
Speaker – Iain King
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BCS Member, Business Analyst, Network Rail
Around the room:
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Member ?
Job Title / Student
Employer / University
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We care !
Hand-out of National Performance Daily Report
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You can get involved:
Open Data feeds:
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/data-feeds/
Wiki:
http://nrodwiki.rockshore.net/index.php/Main_Page
What people have done:
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/data-feeds/case-studies/
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IT in Network Rail
Overall Network Rail spends £100m per week
IT Budget £75m - £150m per year
Applications – see hand-out
IT estate – see next slide
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Network Rail IT Estate
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How many active servers within NR estate?
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2593
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How many (CSC) Data Centres does NR have?
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2 – Sevenoaks (SDC) and Royal Tunbridge Wells (RTW)
How many regional server rooms does NR have?
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32 regional server rooms.
Storage: NR has 5.4PB deployed
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1810 are virtual and 783 are physical
2043 are running Windows; 550 are running HPUX , Red Hat etc.
Based on an average cost of a server, this works out to about £6m in value.
That’s the equivalent of 233,000 DVDs of data…or…
5.2 billion holiday photos…or…
1.5 billion songs.
Oracle Databases 272
SQL Databases 123
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