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Cold Corridor System
Based on the complete separation of hot and cold airflows, the Cold Corridor System leads to significant efficiency improvements. The design of the corridor forces air through the equipment and out of the enclosure using enclosed roof sections, self-sealing doors and clever cabinet design to achieve this separation.
This helps cool the racks more evenly, and means we can deploy servers at any position in the rack. This also greatly improves the life of our servers - as in traditional data centres 75% of server failures occur in the top third of racks.
To further ensure optimum performance, the data centre runs multiple Denco air conditioning units arranged in N+1 fail-over mode for redundancy, and employs the revolutionary
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Connectivity
The data centre has two diverse fibre links provided by BT. The fibre comes into the building via two separate ducts at opposite ends of the data centre to maximise resilience. The links are also arranged in an auto fail-over configuration for greater reliability.
Power
Mains power is fed from our own substation into an advanced online Riello UPS system in an N+1 configuration providing clean and constant power to all of our equipment. In the event of a mains power failure the UPS systems continue to provide full power whilst the Riello high capacity diesel generator starts up to power the entire data centre. The generator has an on-board fuel tank capable of running for several days.
Security
The Data Centre operates from an alarmed, secure premises, it has two state of the art CCTV systems. These monitor both the data centre itself and the buildings in which it is located. Both of CCTV systems are monitored 24/7 by our own Security Staff.
The data centre is also protected by an advanced access control system which will track all visitors and staff as they progress through the building.
Fire Suppression
A VESDA smoke detection system utilising laser particle analysis monitors the server room, cold corridors and floor void for the very early signs of pre-combustion. In the event of a fire the system automatically activates the FM200 gas suppression system which will extinguish any fire in seconds without damaging equipment.
Environmental Monitoring
All of the above systems are centrally managed via our Jacarta monitoring system. This allows our engineers to monitor every aspect of the data centre (e.g. temperature, humidity, water leak, smoke, voltage, etc.) from our NOC and also remotely.