High availability at Local Data Center in Indonesia
by Tandil Wijaya Professional SEO & Internet MarketerBusiness operations from various sectors, namely like health care,
financial systems, communication, retail, professional services, needs to have
certain assurances that their computer operations are running smoothly. These
are the standard operations for digitally connected world nowadays.
Impacts of Downtime
There are some consequences from downtime, or being disconnected even at
slight period. It will give impacts to lost customers, company reputation, and
financial damages. Therefore, IT infrastructures needs to be placed in high
availability data centers anywhere around the world. It can not fail due to
physical disruptions; it exists to keep their IT systems and data continuously
are available and accessible at all time.
There are many matters that come into anticipation to keep the whole
system or infrastructure run without a significant glitch. It may result from
electrical and cooling failures, natural disasters, cyberattacks, coding and et
cetera.
Redundancy in IT Infrastructure
Other than regular maintenance which is part of the readiness, the
strategy is to create some kind of redundancy and backup in the event of
contingency or emergency situation as mentioned above. While the
troubleshooting is in progress for the malfunctions, the data center must be
able to keep the system at work with workable and available backup.
Data center as independent operations from any business entity that
collocate their IT infrastructure will provide the proper level of redundancy
as the service level to different needs of the customers.
Many data centers in the world, Indonesia also counts in, adheres to
formula to benchmark the scale of availability of the resources to support the
IT load and operations.
Local Data Center
The one to highlight in this time is GTN Data Center by Graha Teknologi Nusantara, one of the major data center with high availability in Indonesia.
From the standpoint of power supply, it is supported by two active and
separate grids and one passive grid, which is considered on the upper level.
This translates to formula of 2N + 1 full redundancy.
Next in the configurations is back up system by DRUPS installations as N
+ 1, which contributes to zero downtime. By requirement, it is capable to run
72-hour non operations without refuel. It is tested twice a year by complete
shut down from main power plants and runs solely on DRUPS.
In all, redundancy is part of comprehensive disaster recovery plan to
address any given or nature of disaster.
The video below will provide visual highlight of GTN Data Center
infrastructure for hyperscale computing.
GTN Data Center has been certified as Rated 3 Conformance Constructed Facilities
ANSI/TIA-942-B:2017, which means the it accommodates large companies with
multiple power and cooling system at operations.
Demand
for access to information and data to grow business is more critical nowadays
and into the future. Companies need to focus on going online, if currently the
sales come from offline activities and to rethink how they can develop online
mechanism to reach out, engage and convert the potential market into sales.
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