Challenges
and objectives
ODC-Noord has built an IT infrastructure in their data center based on OpenStack.
Red Hat and community versions
ODC-Noord offers the participating governmental companies hosting services based on Red Hat and community versions.
Chosen architecture and design audited
They wanted to have the chosen architecture and design audited by Fairbanks.
Build the necessary experience
ODC-Noord has composed an internal development team and sought cooperation with knowledge institutions in the country to build the necessary experience and to contribute to the development of the community versions.
Support and knowledge
They wanted Fairbanks to be the company which provides support and knowledge to work together with
the Linux, OpenStack, OpenShift and Ceph teams.
More and new features
Fairbanks thus supports ODC-Noord with assistance to make it easier to extend with more and new features, to keep it high tech and to grow the hosted infrastructure.

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Mission
- ODC-Noord is a supplier in the field of several data center and cloud services for the national Dutch government.
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Industry
- Government
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Location
- Groningen, The Netherlands
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Description
- ODC-Noord, stands for Overheidsdatacenter Noord, which means governmental datacentre north. Driven, innovative, enterprising and a bit stubborn. These are qualities that ODC-Noord describes themselves with. They use these qualities to continue to provide high-quality and innovative services to their customers. Their buyers and clients are located within several ministries. ODC-Noord therefore has a rural working area and has a national focus within the national government. ODC-Noord has built an IT-infrastructure in their datacenter, based on an OpenStack Cloud, OpenShift container platform and a Ceph Storage environment. With various agile teams ODC-Noord serves their customers and develops and manages their HaaS, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS infrastructures.
Services provided to ODCN
Architecture
Fairbanks audited the chosen architecture and design for ODC- Noord with their wants and needs in mind.
Cloud design
Together, we tuned the design of the Open source cloud to the required specifications and size to run on-site, in the SURF's data center.
Projects
With our managed services we carry out projects like migrations and system management the infrastructure needs.
Managed Services
Fairbanks manages the maintenance of the Red Hat open infrastructure so ODC-Noord doesn't have to.
Teamwork
We believe in working together as a team and in this way support the technical teams for ODC- Noord as well.
Support
We deliver professional support for both the OpenStack cloud, OpenShift as well as Ceph storage infrastructure for ODC-Noord.
About
Fairbanks
Fairbanks provides training, consultancy, emergency assistance and managed services for open infrastructure solutions like OpenStack, Kubernetes and open networking.
Why choose Fairbanks as your partner for your open-source infrastructure?
Fairbanks has loads of knowledge
on OpenStack, Kubernetes, OKD, OpenShift, Rancher, Cumulus, and Ceph. We work closely together to share knowledge and expertise.
We offer a managed services model
so you don't have to worry about your environment anymore.
Smooth transition
Even while handing over the cloud infrastructure environment, we ensure a smooth transition.
We are experienced
in working with different and big as well as small companies, and are always dedicated to provide the best.
We are an internationally operating company
and look for long term relationships.
Open infrastructure community
Fairbanks is also a driving force of the open infrastructure community, one of the most active IT communities in the world.

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According to ODCN
- ''Fairbanks is the company which provides us with up-to-date knowledge in the case our own experts can’t find a solution. They have a strong believe in working together and starting conversations with the teams, rather than telling us how things are done.''
- ''Especially in the highly critical governmental datacenters that we are running, this cooperation is needed to get to the next step of growth in customers and features.''.
- ''Having Fairbanks and 42on as support organizations gives us the self confidence to run open source cloud infrastructure like you would any other cloud infrastructure, with the benefits of staying independent, being in control of technology and free of technologically advancements.''
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Jaap Jansma
Work with
Fairbanks
We would love to get in touch with you to hear your thoughts and questions. Feel free to leave us a message here.
info@fairbanks.nl
Location
Stationsplein 62
Baarn, 3743 KM
The Netherlands
Phone
+31 (0)885454900