IBS DataFort: Virtual Cloud Data Center in Ostankino

Main article: Data center (data center)

2022: Information Security Compliance Certificate

The company DataFort announced on January 11, 2022 that its cloud platform, located on the basis of the Ostankino data center, received a certificate of compliance with information protection requirements. The document confirms the compliance of the platform DataFort with the requirements of federal legislation and national regulators in terms of protection of state information systems (GIS) up to 1 class of security and information systems of personal data (SDIS) up to 1 level of security inclusive.

The certificate is indefinite, while inspection control confirming the level of information protection will be carried out at least once every two years by an independent licensee of the FSTEC of Russia.

In the three years since the previous certification of the DataFort platform, numerous changes have been made to the legislation and requirements of regulators. For example, the document that previously guided the modeling of security threats has not changed since 2008 and many of its provisions are fundamentally outdated. The updated methodology for modeling information security threats was developed by the FSTEC of Russia in 2020 and after discussion in the expert community was approved in April 2021. In developing this document, the authors took into account that information systems can now be located in commercial data centers and in the cloud infrastructure of the provider.

As such, the certification process was not difficult, but took a long time. Of course, this is partly due to the FSTEC methods, but the main difficulty was the replacement of all certified information protection tools that we used earlier. According to the requirements prescribed in FSTEC Order No. 17, all means of technical protection of confidential information used in our case should have FSTEC certificates of Russia for 4 levels of trust. And at the time of our certification, not all vendors have passed certification by levels of trust, "said the director of information security DataFort Egor Bigun.

He emphasized that now the platform is DataFort ready to host various GIS and ISPD, the owners of which plan to certify them using the updated FSTEC method. This is also relevant for those who want to be certified according to the requirements of GIS (for example, medical information systems), as well as for those who want to certify their SDGs. At the same time, the entire set of documents that may be required during certification will be available to DataFort customers: extracts from the threat model or technical passport, a description of the separation of areas of responsibility and other documents.

2018: Launch of virtual data center on site in Ostankino

The company IBS DataFort on August 22, 2018 announced the launch of a high-performance virtual DPC To Moscow in. The data center is deployed on the site of a strategic partner and, Ostankino Television Technical Center according to company representatives, in its technical characteristics significantly exceeds two other metropolitan sites IBS. DataFort

According to TAdviser in the company, the need to open the next data center in Moscow was caused by an increase in the number of projects to transfer large amounts of information and resource-intensive applications to the cloud: ERP systems, highly loaded databases, etc. In addition, some IBS cloud services DataFort require three geographically distributed sites for fault tolerance.

Geographically, the data center is based in the specialized premises of the Ostankino shopping center at the address: Moscow, 1st Ostankino St., 1, p. 1. According to IBS DataFort, the technical features of this site exceed the requirements of the Tier III standard. For example, the data center can easily do without diesel generator plants (DGUs), since its power supply systems are connected to four independent power substations and a single power ring is created inside. Thanks to this architecture, power supply to the racks will not stop even if three substations fail.

The data center infrastructure is based on equipment, Hewlett Packard Enterprise including the high-performance G10 blade line servers Synergy based on processors Intel Xeon Scalable and () Storage System SHD 8400 3Par StoreServ Storage. The amount of computing resources exceeds 800 GHz (with a frequency per core from 3 to 3.5 GHz) and 9 TB RAM. Such features allow you to implement any services from the IBS DataFort catalog, including those that require increased performance - for example, high-performance (from hosting SAP HANA 130,000 SAPS per one) server and hosting 1C (Gilev 40 + test results) with the ability to scale to 1.5 TB RAM per server.

According to Dmitry Borodachev, technical director of IBS DataFort, in the data center in Ostankino, the company can place any number of client racks or rent part of the machine room with partitions and dedicated access control and video surveillance systems.

We also got unlimited opportunities to develop services provided on the basis of the DF Cloud platform. This is especially important now that customers are increasingly bringing their equipment to the data center on colocation and there cross it with the cloud platform over a high-performance network. On the one hand, it protects advanced investments in iron, on the other - the benefits of the cloud: fault tolerance, performance flexibility and scalability.