Characteristics of the data center
Star of Bosphorus Data Center is the first earthquake-resistant data center in Turkey to be certified by the Uptime Institute Tier III Design & Resort and receive the status of “carrier-independent” commercial data center. Located in Istanbul, it covers an area of 45,000 square meters with a total capacity of 16 MW and houses 2,100 communication cabinets.
Certificates
- Uptime Institute Tier III: Design Documents 2018, Constructed Facility 2018
- ISO 27001;
- ISO 9001:2015;
- PCI DSS;
- U.S. Green Building Council
Characteristics of the data center
- The building structure is resistant to 9+ magnitude earthquakes due to seismic isolation technology and 138 movable seismic isolators installed.
- Two independent cable entries;
- N+1 redundancy;
- Availability Level (SLA) – 99.982%;
- Machine rooms area – 5000 square meters;
- Capacity – more than 2100 racks;
- NOVEC 1230 automatic fire extinguishing system, 2000 fire sensors;
- Cooling system with N+1 redundancy
- Round-the-clock technical support
- Uninterrupted power supply
- Total power supply capacity 16 MW
- 4-stage physical security system on the data center territory (X-ray, 2nd X-ray, mantrap, retinal scan)
Hardware base
The vStack SL201-D25RE servers in the following configuration:
- 2 Intel Xeon Gold 6226R (Cascade Lake) 2.90 GHz processors, 32 cores per server;
- 1TB DDR4 (2,666 MHz) memory;
- NetApp AFF storage optimized for fast SSDs
