Data Center
Data Center Alwernia
A safe haven for your data
Data Center
location
Main features
- Year of putting into service: 2015
- Area – 6,500 m²
- Guaranteed accessibility of services
- Power: 8 MW
- Location: Alwernia (between Cracow and Katowice)
- Connection via direct redundant fiber optic cable at the data center in Skawina
- Access to storage area upon customer’s request
- Concrete fence around the facility
Communications
- Twelve independent operators, two telecommunications rooms
- Independent paths for providers, 4 approaches to the building
- Redundant access node to the Internet with DoS/DDoS protection
Security
- Round-the-clock physical security
- Extensive access control and antiburglary systems
- CCTV system
- Building monitoring system (BMS) that controls the operation of all devices in the data center
- Licensed security staff hired by a licensed security agency
- Access lists and controlled admission to the territory of the facility
- 24/7/365 intervention group
- 7-tier access control
- Constant CCTV monitoring, movable cameras, 2 Mpix image
Fire safety
- Redundant extinguishing system, double set of cylinders
- Demarcated fire zones of fire-resistance rating of up to EI90
- Detection of fire based on early smoke detection system
- Extinguishing system with the use of gas neutral for people, equipment, and environment
Power supply
- Two medium-voltage power connections 15kV
- Distribution of power in a 2N architecture
- UPS backup power supply maintenance system even in a 2(N+1) architecture
- Power supply system prepared to provide up to 15kW/RACK
- Electric power generator – engine generators in a N or N+1 architecture
- Extensive monitoring system of power supply parameters
Air-conditioning
- Two independent sources of cold
- Direct Liquid Cooling for processors
- Redundant system of precision air-conditioning
- Redundant water chiller system
- Two redundant distribution paths for chilled water
- Cooling capacity of up to 15kW/RACK
- Free cooling – reduction of exploitation costs
- Underground container with chilled water of 1MWh
Quality and certificates
- ISO 27001:2017
- ISO 27017:2015
- ISO 9001:2015
Ecology and energy efficiency
- PUE = 1.1 (with the use of DLC technology)
- Passive energy sources (solar collectors, location of the facility etc.)
- Direct Liquid Cooling for processors
Data processing center in Alwernia
We designed and built the Alwernia Data Center with the idea that it would serve as a server room at the highest international level.
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