Primary Data Centre - Kent
This impenetrable fortress is situated on 18 acres of land, outside the M25 and sits 30 metres below ground. It has concrete walls three metres thick and steel blast proof doors weighing over two tons. All systems are inside faraday cages protecting against Electro-magnetic Pulses (EMP) and tempest (digital eves-dropping). Backup and storage servers are protected by an in-rack gas fire suppression system.
There are multiple independent fibre links to the data centre entering at four separate access points to ensure data is continually streamed. This is controlled by a fault tolerant core network that can re-route information if an error occurs anywhere on the network.
Layered on top of this physical inaccessibility is a 24-hour watch with guard dogs, CCTV and a series of sophisticated access controls that offer the ultimate in protection from a myriad of attacks, including crackers, terrorist attack, electro-magnetic pulse, electronic eavesdropping, HERF weapons and solar flares.
In 1995 £60 million was spent renovating the site surpassing the specifications of the most resilient Tier 4 commercial data centres.
The bunker is designed to keep digital data available to you at all times. There are sufficient underground diesel tanks to keep the plant running for a solid three months without refueling, and dual UPS systems capable of running the entire server facility for forty hours in the event of a power outage, to ensure there is no interruption to service during switchover.
Security
Physical Security
We run our hosting operations from cold war era nuclear bunkers, which are state-of-the-art installations, purpose built with security in mind and originally constructed as an integral part of the UK's strategic communications network.
Digital Security
The experience of our technical team in providing secure cryptographic solutions, combined with the Bunkers high level of physical security and client identification procedures, offer the ultimate in protection from a myriad of attacks.
Security Culture
We advocate to all our customers a specific set of security procedures and processes, to help ensure the integrity of your systems.
Data vaulting centre infrastructure
The core principles behind the design of the data vaulting centre are resilience and redundancy, with the aim of removing all single points of failure.
