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Ashburn Data Center is located in Ashburn, 30 miles to the west of Washington DC in Loudon County, near Virginia. The Ashburn Data Center is a new Tier III 123,000 square feet campus that has been strategically built ten minutes away from the Washington Dulles International Airport and the Bureau of Federal Government. The chief function of the Ashburn Data Center is to deliver high density collocation services, managed hosting services that also accounts for enterprise class security, disaster management data recovery, storage facilities, and rich fiber network connectivity.
The Ashburn Data Center facilitates the connectivity to one of the largest network points and delivers data coverage across all US time zones. The Ashburn Data Center provides collocation to suit to the different customer needs but the new upcoming data centers lack the scalable infrastructure. The data center provides facility that is both flexible, quick in response to the businessman's needs.
The Ashburn Data Center provides customized managed services to bring down the excessively burdened IT professionals from their daily routine, non revenue producing jobs. The business clients get to select from a widely range of integrated managed services to shoulder the workload, infrastructural facilities along with outsource critical server, security, storage and network solutions that supports the existing systems and resources.
The Ashburn Data Center has been recently built in 2009, with 36 floor inundations. The Ashburn Data Center has a 71,000 sq. ft. facility with an additional 52,000 sq. ft. of expansion capacity. The data center operates on redundant power and cooling systems and the raised floor area has been specially designed for high density deployments. The features comprises of several Gigabits of Internet bandwidth that is active over multiple Tier 1 service providers on a fully diverse fiber infrastructure.
The Ashburn Data Center protects from critical operations, and operates on a tight and multi-layered security system. A digital video surveillance network accounts for all data center area and building entrance activity. The Ashburn Data Center entrances are controlled by strictly managed access levels, man-trap entry and biometric scans that ensure that only authorized personnel's are allowed to enter. Additionally to the physical security facilities, our highly secure and guaranteed NOC features 100% uptime and is manned 24x7x365 by our rapid response specialists.
Building Access and Security
. 24x7 on-site staff monitoring throughout the Ashburn Data Center.
. Alarm system with secure video surveillance throughout the data center
. Multi-level access authorization with biometric verification and security controlled access level assignment
Electrical Power Infrastructure
. Overhead power distribution prevents interference with network infrastructure
. With the employment of items such as blanking panels, air dams and venting solutions, we can provide over 10 KW per rack
. 21 MW of on-site power availability
. N+1 redundant UPS infrastructure to prevent loss of transmission of critical power
Cooling
. Inundated floor plenum with minimal obstructions provides cooling to server racks
. Hot-aisle and cold-aisle configurations with optimal air containment solutions to increase efficiency and density while maintaining strict cooling standards that exceed ASHRAE specifications
. Cooling available at N+1 redundancy
. Redundant and energy-efficient humidification systems maintain precise humidity distribution
So the Ashburn Data Center has wide range of viability over the IT industry
