{"id":1056,"date":"2007-08-22T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T07:14:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-08-22T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T07:14:52","slug":"is-upgrades-cape-town-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/1056-is-upgrades-cape-town-data-centre.html","title":{"rendered":"IS upgrades Cape Town data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 800m&sup2; power room, installed by Dimension Data, provides increased capacity to ensure 100% uptime for IS customers.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Montjoie, manager for Hosted Solutions at IS, says an additional 300m&sup2; data centre space is planned for September. &ldquo;After the power outages experienced in Cape Town during last year we wanted to ensure we could maintain IS&rsquo; 100% uptime record and this called for an upgrade to our power plant.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>With no disruption to customer services during the nine month project, Dimension Data installed <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three 1250KVA generators <\/li>\n<li>Nine 400KVA Uninterrupted Power Supplies (UPS) <\/li>\n<li>Two 9000 litre diesel tanks <\/li>\n<li>Two cooling towers weighing 10 tons each <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;We estimate this power upgrade will handle our needs for at least the next 10 years,&rdquo; says Montjoie. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And although our customers have never experienced an outage of service in the IS&rsquo; Cape Town IDC over the past five years, it&rsquo;s clear that the demands on the local power grid may prove problematic in the future. Upgrading the utilities in Cape Town also prompted a 300m&sup2; data centre space expansion. However, due to increased business demands, it is already fully allocated so we are doubling this starting in September.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade of data centre space involved installing a world-class cooling system and deploying state of the art structuring cabling and more than 5 000 network points.<\/p>\n<p>Concludes Montjoie; &ldquo;as with all our data centres, IS is constantly improving hosting services for our customers and that includes the supporting infrastructures.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Solutions (IS) opened their upgraded International Data Centre (IDC) in Cape Town. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}