Addis Ababa University: Institute of Technology
Addis Ababa University: Institute of Technology
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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submission date
July 7,2016
1. Background
2. Mission
Ethio‐Telecom
African Union
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
United Nations for Population Administration (UNFPA )
Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO)
Sheraton Addis
Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority
Ethiopian Insurance Corporation
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
National Bank of Ethiopia
NIB International Bank S.C.
United Bank S.C.
Zemen Bank S.C.
Bank of Abyssinia
National Bank of Ethiopia
Wegagen Bank S.C.
Development Bank of Ethiopia
Lion International Bank S.C.
Nyala Insurance
5. BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS
USI works with world‐class solution and product providers and
continuously appends its manufacturer database. Our work experience
and supply record has earned partnership with large solution providers in
the area of system integration, including customer confidence.
USI in partnership with Temenos offer a one stop shop for banks that
wish to automate their core operation via Core Banking Solutions
.USI/Temenos has implemented T24 core banking solution for five
banks in Ethiopia. This includes Commercial Bank of Ethiopia,
Development Bank of Ethiopia, Construction and Business Bank S.C.,
Nib International Bank S.C. and Bank of Abyssinia while emerging
banks are soon to follow.
USI was the choice for Supply and Implementation of Data Center
Network Infrastructures and delivery of end to end hardware and
software for centralized core banking system project valued at over
million dollars for hosting of Temenos T24 core banking software. USI
has been providing maintenance, professional consultancy service and
supplies of all HP Products to Nib International Bank head office and its
50 branches for the past 6 years.
USI was the choice for providing hardware and software infrastructures
for payment management system and RTGS check clearing
infrastructure of NBE’s National Payment System. In the software
aspect USI installed Red Hat Enterprise Server, Dbvisit , Crystal Reports
and HP Data Protector as a backup system. Installation of etoken for the
workstation and certificate generation application and Installation of
Kaspersky antivirus for the whole system from centrally managed
Administration kit server.
United Bank
Delivered and installed the entire IT infrastructure for the Central Data
Center with high end HP servers and Storage solution along with
virtualization solution. The
Installation included HP Integrity Servers running on HP-UX in a cluster
environment Including load sharing for the application servers. Four
units of rx4640 Itanium servers are installed to run the core banking
applications and two of them as data base servers. The data base servers
are clustered while the application servers are load sharing mode. The
storage is EVA 4000 in a SAN environment, along with DL580s, DL
380s and DL360s.The Tape library is MSL 6000 FC. This client is on
support from USI with annual comprehensive and preventive
maintenance service.
Zemen Bank data center was supplied and installed by USI. It includes
high end HP servers and storage solutions along with the Cisco core and
distribution switches. They are on warranty support from USI.
USI was the choice to make ERTA’s Radio archiving system digital.
The deployment includes high end HP Servers, workstation and tape
library of 96 slots (MSL 9096)
and Active Circle software to take and/or restore file from tape and
Netia software to archive their current files to digital and retrieve them
to play/ on-air from the digital. USI successfully supplied, configure,
commissioned and trained their staffs for ‘Audio archive’ project.
SchoolNET Project
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The problem I have faced while I was working is that in most of the data
centers we visited in different banks I was able to find what the data
center lack according to the standard document. The problems were
some of the data centers don't have proper security systems like cameras
and digitalized doors while others don't have raised floors and poor
cooling systems. After observing the problems I wrote a
recommendation report about each data centers and submit it to my
supervisor. In my performance I tried to submit my reports on time and I
tried to improve what was lacking.
Over all benefits I have gained from my internship program is that I get
to know about my field more practically and gained more learning
experience and it brought to me a real world application, I got an
opportunity to practice communication and teamwork skills, I learned
new skills and add knowledge while gaining confidence in my abilities, I
have met new people and practice networking skills while establishing a
network of professional contacts, mentors and references.
While doing my internship I understood to be punctuality, reliability,
dedication, productivity, cooperation, character etc
conclusion
I have visited different data centers. While visiting these banks data
center I got a lot of knowledge about different facilities of bank data
center and I got knowledge about many devices inside data center. Like
electrical power devices, mechanical and cooling system devices,
essential network devices and security devices. This helped me a lot to
have clear picture about data center. Now I have an understanding of
data center as it is not only a cluster of servers interconnected by
different network and server farm switches, rather I get clear picture of
data center as it is house of computation or the heart of the network
build from different types of servers (Web servers, Application Servers
and Database servers), Storage devices (including backup device),
interconnect device (server farm switches and network switches),
security devices(Firewalls, and IPS(Intrusion Prevention Systems)),
mechanical devices (Air conditioning system and proper
system),electrical power supply devices(like UPS) and other room
security devices (camera, access control and fire detection system). And
also I learned a lot about safeties to be taken and guidelines to be
followed while running a preventive maintenance, in order to avoid
damage on the equipment.
Reference
-Wikipedia
-CDCP(certified data center program)