IS upgrades data center capabilities
The investment made into these established data centers means they now have more space, increased capacity, improved cooling capabilities and better resilience, offering current and prospective customers a more efficient and cost effective cloud computing experience.
The updated data center in Bryanston went live in September, with an additional 700 m² added to the facility’s existing 2000 m² capacity.
“The data center has 2n resilience on its power infrastructure, and is the most resilient data center we have built to date”, says Greg Montjoie, Executive of Cloud Business at IS.
The Bryanston data center now has fibre to the rack. “This gives us a 10GB backbone in the data center right into the customer rack, which will give customers unprecedented speeds for extremely fast access into the cloud, and a better virtualised environment experience.”
This new architecture will also offer better connectivity between data centers, making the provisioning of Gig speed inter-data center connectivity via an MPLS network easier. “This will make more cost effective geographically diverse virtualised services a reality for our customers”, he says.
The upgraded IS Parklands data center goes live on 15th October, with 400 m² added to the existing 1000 m² capacity.
“The new infrastructure in Parklands offers the same configuration as Bryanston, with 2n power resilience. What is unique about this upgrade is that, due to the way we have configured our uninterrupted power supply and generators, we are able to scale up and deploy another 1500 m² almost immediately.”
According to Montjoie, IS are now also able to measure power load per cabinet in the upgraded data centers, offering detailed graphs and stats on rack power utilisation.
IS says it currently owns 34% of the local hosting market, and has continued to experience growing demand for cloud based services over the last 18 months.
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