Datacenter
Facilities
All servers are housed
in a datacenter
space in the newly renovated 427 LaSalle
data center facility located adjacent to
the Chicago Board of Trade in downtown Chicago.
The building is one of Chicago's preeminent
carrier hotels with excellent options for
metro and global connectivity.
Chicago is one of the
most connected cities in the world, and
it's central location makes it the optimum
location for serving Internet content. Chicago
serves as one of North America's largest
Internet hubs and is home to every major
network provider. Most of the fiber optics
that connect the East and West coasts of
the United States run through Chicago and
this yields low latency to both coasts as
well as to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
Chicago was recently
rated the greenest city in the US for datacenter
locations. A recent study showed Chicago
was much more energy efficient and produced
only a small fraction of carbon emissions
than other datacenter locations. Chicago
was also recently ranked one of the safest
cities in the United States with a very
low risk for natural disasters ahead of
other cities in Texas, California, Florida
and the East Coast - all of which have a
much greater risk for hurricanes, tornadoes,
earthquakes and floods than Chicago.
Datacenter Statistics
- SAS 70 Certified Datacenter
- 3 3000 Amp, 480 Volt, 3 phase power
feeds from multiple sub-stations
- 3 2 MegaWatt (MW) Electrical Generators
- 4 500 KVA UPS systems
- 4 300 Ton Chillers
- Automatic logic monitoring of all critical
equipment
- 24x7 Security Staffing and CCTV Surveillance
- Biometric Scanners for Datacenter Access
- Mantraps and Optical Turnstiles at entrance
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