Safedata: Virtual Data Center

Main article: Data center (data center)

2017

The growth of business and the introduction of new services led Safedata management to think about building a reliable and productive storage platform for private and public clouds. In particular, the group of companies began to provide the Virtual Data Center service according to the IaaS model (Infrastructure as a service - "infrastructure as a service"). This deployment involves creating almost any level of complexity for the customer's IT infrastructure. And it is built on both the resources of its own data centers and the VMware vCloud Director cloud management platform ^[1].

Given the fact that the main customers of this service are large companies, the main criteria for choosing equipment are high reliability and performance. Safedata needed to base its technology offerings on leading global manufacturers.

"Enterprise customers need maximum storage reliability and data availability, so we use best-of-breed hardware, including storage, in our virtual data center. NetApp In three years of operation, these storage systems have proven high performance and reliability, and thin provisioning and deduplication technologies have helped us improve disk utilization and reduce storage costs, "says Andrei Sorokin, head of cloud computing and virtualization platforms at Safedata

In a group of companies from many available on the market, they leaned in favor of storage systems. NetApp FAS Safedata notes that in addition to ensuring continuous data availability, these storage systems have another significant advantage for cloud service providers: tight integration with technology virtualizations VMware and flexible implementation of functionality. Clustered Data ONTAP It allows you to reallocate existing storage resources and allocate new ones without additional effort.

Business continuity and storage efficiency

At first, the middle-class system FAS3250 became the basis for the Virtual Data Center service, however, after positive customer feedback, as well as due to the growth in user data, other systems were purchased - FAS6220 and FAS8060. They are considered more intensive and productive.

As a result, the total physical capacity of these three storage systems exceeded the 1 PB mark. The company notes that the use of these storage systems allowed for the truly continuous operation of business applications deployed by Safedata customers in the virtual data center. By the way, thin provisioning has become the key to the flexible allocation of storage resources between applications of different users, and this has seriously increased the efficiency of storage.

Commercial successes in many areas, and in particular those achieved with the help of the Virtual Data Center service, pushed the group of companies to commission the third data center Moscow-III. The expected launch date is 2017. Its capacity will be 10 MW, and the area - 3.5 thousand square meters. m Up to 900 server racks can be placed in the data center.

DPCs Rostelecom

• Rostelecom - Data Centers (Rostelecom-Data Center, RTK-Data Center)
• Rostelecom: Virtual Data Center (VDC)
• Data center Rostelecom Moscow
• Data center Rostelecom Moscow III
• DPC Rostelecom Moscow IV
• Data center Rostelecom Saint Petersburg
• Data center Rostelecom Kaliningrad
• Data center Rostelecom Novosibirsk
• Data center Rostelecom Chita
• Data center Rostelecom Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
• SafeData - Data Storage Center
• DPC SafeData Udomlya
• RTC Data Center (SafeData)
• Safedata: Virtual Data Center

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