NORD-5 DATA CENTER

2022: Uptime Institute Tier III Certification: Design Documents

Data Center NORD-5 is certified Uptime Institute Tier III: Design Documents. The company DataLine (Data Line) announced this on January 11, 2022.

During the certification process, the experts of the Uptime Institute completely checked all the design documentation of the data center, including monitoring, mechanical, electrical and automatic systems. Experts paid attention to the compliance of power, energy efficiency and safety of communications in the data center with the Tier III level standard. The received certificate confirms that the data center project meets the requirements for redundancy, thanks to which equipment repair and replacement are carried out without stopping processes.

Design Documents certification is a mandatory basis for further Tier III certification of the Constructed Facility and Operation Sustainability processes.

Certification of documentation according to the Uptime Institute Tier III standard guarantees our customers that the NORD-5 data center is designed with high reliability and fault tolerance requirements. In the future, we plan to confirm compliance with the standard in other areas of the Constructed Facility and Operational Sustainability for this data center, "said Yuri Samoilov, First Deputy General Director of Rostelecom-Data Center, CEO of DataLine.

2020: NORD-5 data center launch in Moscow

On November 17, 2020, Rostelecom announced the launch of a new data center in Moscow. It was called NORD-5 and an area of ​ ​ 1,500 square meters. m

Three machine rooms are provided in the data center, accommodating up to 600 customer racks. A feature of this site in Rostelecom was called a dedicated hall with stance seats with an increased power of up to 20 kW. The joint team of Rostelecom-Data Center and DataLine will operate and provide the services of the NORD-5 data center (the companies merged in early 2020).

As noted in Rostelecom, NORD-5 meets the requirements of the international standard Tier III Uptime Institute. All elements of infrastructure systems are reserved and allow you to service the data center without stopping its operation. Rostelecom DPC plans to certify the data center for compliance with Tier III standards in three programs: design documentation, data center built and operational stability.

Rostelecom launched a data center for 600 racks in Moscow

According to the first deputy general director of Dataline, Yuri Samoilov, Moscow continues to have high demand for commercial data centers, and the company is trying to develop its network of data centers in order to support the growing needs of customers. In 2021, another data center for 600 racks and the launch of the first stage of the large-scale data center Tier IV for 2 thousand racks are expected to be launched.

In addition, by the end of 2020, Rostelecom intends to launch new sites in St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk, work on the design of data centers in Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod is well underway.

At these sites, customers will be able to get access not only to the traditional equipment placement service, but also to higher-level cloud services, "said Samoilov, whose words are quoted in a press release.[1]

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