Indsoft
has set up a state of the art hosting infrastructure
to cater to the hosting requirements of Indian corporates.
Package starts for $ 99 per month /server.
The design specifications of this center have been benchmarked
against the facilities of global players.
The hosting center has been designed to act as a reliable,
secure and scalable facility to host mission critical
applications.
Hosting Backbone
In addition to the existing infrastructure, Indsoft
is setting up a separate hosting backbone |
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Earthquake
proof design |
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The
Infotech Park building is designed taking into account
seismic activity history of the region. The building
also houses a railway station and is designed to withstand
vibrations.
While the Infotech Park provides basic infrastructure,
the specialised nature of Indsoft facility calls for
a much superior and redundant infrastructure. Some of
the steps taken by Indsoft to ensure the same are discussed
here. |
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Generator
Backup |
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In
and unlikely event of a prolonged Grid failure, the
generators will be pressed into service. Indsoft has
contracted for dual gensets. |
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Redundant
UPS |
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The
data center is equipped with two UPS with a full load
battery of 30 minutes as third level of safety against
any power failure coupled with generator failure.
Above power supply capacities are planned for initial
operations of the data center. However, the electrical
cabling in the data center is designed to handle 1000
KVA of power supply. This ensures future scalability
for power requirements for the center. |
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Environment
Conditioning |
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Proper
environment conditioning is extremely important for
a hosting center. The heat generated by servers and
other networking equipment needs to be handled and a
constant temperature has to be maintained. A failure
to ensure this can lead to sub-optimal performance of
servers and can lead to even break down of certain heavy-duty
servers.
Some of the steps taken to ensure a fool
proof environment control system are discussed here.
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Air
conditioning |
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Dust
filtration and Humidity control |
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The
air-conditioning equipment is designed to filter any
dust more than 5 micron from entering the facility.
The equipment will also control the humidity level in
the facility. |
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Inert
gas based fire suppression system |
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The
Infotech Park has a centralised water based fire suppression
system. But a similar system can cause a huge damage
to expensive computer equipment due to water spray even
in case of minor fire.
Thus, to take care of the data center, it is equipped
with fire safety system is based on inert gas suppression.
The fire system is based on zone classification. The
four zones are: |
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Zone
Based Security Systems |
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The
Indsoft data center is designed to house very high end
applications. Thus the physical security needs to be
very high. Some of the security measures designed for
the data center are as discussed: |
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The
entire data center is divided into four zones. |
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Zone
0: This is an area where any person can enter.
This is the area leading to the security and reception |
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Zone
1: This zone is meant for visitors, Indsoft
employees and customers. The visitors to the data center
(including Indsoft employees) are issued infrared sensitive
proximity cards with colour code specification |
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Zone
2: This is an area where only Indsoft employees
working at the data center and valid customers are allowed
to enter. The entry and exit to these areas is restricted
by Biometrics access. The biometrics access is a combination
of thumbprint, retinal print apart from proximity cards.
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Zone
3: This zone is the highest security zone and
only designated Indsoft employees working at the data
center will be allowed inside |
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Backup
Operations |
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Full
backup on weekly basis |
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A
full backup of entire non-operating system data is taken
on a weekly basis. The backups are subject to an upper
limit. Additional backup capacity can be provided as
per specific customer requirements. |
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CPU
Performance reports |
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This
report provides the utilisation of CPU at various points
of time. This helps customer determine any need for
upgardation of the processing power of the server. |
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Data
transfer reports |
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These
reports measure the data transfer to and from the server.
Bandwidth utilisation reports.
These
provide an insight into the bandwidth used by server
at various points of time. This can help customer determine
the traffic pattern to his server. |
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Manpower
Services |
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The
manpower forms a very important component of any data
center. Indsoft has recruited special team to cater
to just the data center. |
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Guaranteed
uptime of 99% |
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Indsoft
offers a guaranteed uptime of 99%. This is possible
as hosting facility is connected by strong backbone
support connected with @Home, UUnet, Global Frontier
etc. to make your site 24 hours live |
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Highest
physical security |
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The
applications run by customers are mission critical and
thus the physical access to the server resources needs
to be restricted. The Zone based security system coupled
with Intrusion detection system ensures a very high
level of security for the server. |
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Trained
manpower |
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Indsoft
hosting facility is manned by experts drawn from variety
of technology fields. The customers can thus hire "hands"
to manage their resources located at hosting facility.
This will help customers to cut down on manpower recruitment
and more importantly, retaining effort. |
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