Photo tour of the data center from the Australian colocation provider Micron21
I present to your attention a photo tour of the data center from the Australian colocation provider Micron21. At its location at the moment there is one commercial data center, which received a certificate of reliability Tier III. Micron21 has also passed the certification of project documentation for the relevant Tier IV (Tier IV Certified Design Documents) requirements. In the future, the company plans to certify its commercial server farm to the Tier IV reliability level, which has already been built and put into operation (Tier IV Certified Constructed Facility) and thus become the first Uptime Institute Tier IV certificate for the already ready data center in Australia.
After visiting the data center, it becomes clear that the company is not a typical colocation provider. He founded the company Micron21 James Braunegg six years ago in the family printing house, calling it "business inside-business". He used the network infrastructure of the printing house and unused space in order to offer hosting services to potential customers.
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IT direction bore fruit in 2014. It was decided to sell all printing equipment and make space for future server hardware (this happened in July 2015). Thanks to this, James Braunegg was able to increase his IT infrastructure from 10 racks to 100 racks and thereby increase the capacity of the server farm to 2 megawatts. He decided to use part of the useful space for rent by third-party companies with a view to the subsequent deployment of client server equipment.
The company's engineers were able to provide increased reliability of all auxiliary equipment: power supplies, cooling system and other auxiliary equipment, which has a power reserve for obtaining a certificate and a Tier IV reliability level. The colocation provider uses redundant generators from the company - Cummins and chillers with free cooling , the design also provides the ability to install additional pipelines, compressors and pumps.
The main key feature of the data center Micron21 is the density of computing in computer systems. At the moment, the number of clients exceeds 1 thousand users of hosting services, requests of which are processed by server hardware inside of only 10 racks based on Raspberry Pi .
The network infrastructure of the Micron21 data center is impressive - customers have direct access to 1.6 tis. networks around the world. And this is an amazing achievement, as for such a modest company. The company also protects its network with its own anti-DDoS service capable of withstanding an attack of 700 GB / s.
Micron21 has an extensive customer base: from small and medium businesses to Australian government departments that require fault-tolerant IT services. When upgrading and expanding their data center, Australians did not provide any inconvenience in the form of unplanned downtime for their existing customers. In doing so, they created their own data center, which was ready for Tier IV certification. Some people compare this with upgrading the engine of a car that is in motion.
After visiting the data center, it becomes clear that the company is not a typical colocation provider. He founded the company Micron21 James Braunegg six years ago in the family printing house, calling it "business inside-business". He used the network infrastructure of the printing house and unused space in order to offer hosting services to potential customers.
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IT direction bore fruit in 2014. It was decided to sell all printing equipment and make space for future server hardware (this happened in July 2015). Thanks to this, James Braunegg was able to increase his IT infrastructure from 10 racks to 100 racks and thereby increase the capacity of the server farm to 2 megawatts. He decided to use part of the useful space for rent by third-party companies with a view to the subsequent deployment of client server equipment.
The company's engineers were able to provide increased reliability of all auxiliary equipment: power supplies, cooling system and other auxiliary equipment, which has a power reserve for obtaining a certificate and a Tier IV reliability level. The colocation provider uses redundant generators from the company - Cummins and chillers with free cooling , the design also provides the ability to install additional pipelines, compressors and pumps.
The main key feature of the data center Micron21 is the density of computing in computer systems. At the moment, the number of clients exceeds 1 thousand users of hosting services, requests of which are processed by server hardware inside of only 10 racks based on Raspberry Pi .
The network infrastructure of the Micron21 data center is impressive - customers have direct access to 1.6 tis. networks around the world. And this is an amazing achievement, as for such a modest company. The company also protects its network with its own anti-DDoS service capable of withstanding an attack of 700 GB / s.
Micron21 has an extensive customer base: from small and medium businesses to Australian government departments that require fault-tolerant IT services. When upgrading and expanding their data center, Australians did not provide any inconvenience in the form of unplanned downtime for their existing customers. In doing so, they created their own data center, which was ready for Tier IV certification. Some people compare this with upgrading the engine of a car that is in motion.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/243927/
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