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Sanity Technology's purpose built Data Centre is connected to our fully redundant, geographically diverse fibre ring network which gives our clients the assurance that their products and services are available on the internet at all times. The core foundations of our network is exceptionally stable and we confidently guarantee it to our customers with our 99.999% Service Level Agreement. Within the Data Centre our committment to redundancy has been extended throughout all core services, such as UPS systems, electricity supply and air-conditioning with a minimum N+1 specification to ensure that our customers valuable server equipment is in safe hands at all times.
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Brisbane CoLocation
Sanity Technology's world-class datacenter facility is contained within a modern multi-storey building of concrete construction at 360 St Pauls Tce, Fortitude Valley, on the fringe of the Brisbane CBD. The building provides easy access with onsite customer parking, delivery and service bay, internal lift, basement parking and storage space for delivery of IT equipment.
Facility Technology
The InfraStruXure© datacenter solution provided by APC was chosen for the facility as it fully integrates electricity, cooling, security, rack cabinets and management services in a scalable fashion. The on-demand architecture provides an efficient modular design that can be expanded upon in a streamlined fashion allowing the datacenter to scale as technology evolves. This means that Sanity Technology's Facility can scale to meet the power and cooling demands of cutting-edge IT environments today, and in the future.
UPS
Complimenting the InfraStruXure© solution, APC Symmetra PX 160kW UPS systems are utilized with integrated power distribution system and additional battery banks providing up to several hours of runtime rather than mere minutes. These ultra modern UPS systems are configured for N+1 redundancy ensuring clean power delivery by filtering the electricity supply protecting valuable equipment at all times, even when running on generator power.
Symmetra PX is a world class, redundant, scalable power protection system designed to provide high levels of availability. It seamlessly integrates with today's state-of-the-art data centre designs with a true modular system serving the role of the core power train that drives the facility.
In addition to extended run-time availability from the Symmetra UPS systems, diesel generators sets supplied by CATERPILLAR® Power Systems provides continued power supplied in emergencies, such as a major local supply outage.
InRow AC Cooling
Boasting the highest cooling density available in the industry utilizing APC's InRow air-conditioning units, Sanity Technology can provide up to a massive 15kW (64A) of cooling per rack. This ensures that sufficient power and cooling is available to your requirement for the future of high-density server equipment.
High Efficiency
Efficiency has always been a top priority for us which led to the adoption of cutting-edge thermal containment with APC's Hot Aisle Containment System (HACS). The HACS system provides air containment by separating the cool air supplied to IT equipment and the resulting hot air that is expressed. By preventing the mixture of hot and cool air a significant increase in efficiency, capacity and predictability of the cooling system is provided.
Another simplistic efficiency measure in place is the insulation of all four walls within the facility. This includes a solid fire-rated wall over floor to ceiling glass windows, completely cutting out the warm-sunlight experienced in the sunshine state of Queensland.
Fire Detection
A suitable fire detection system is a necessity in the modern datacenter, and our facility is certainly no exception. The well-known VESDA (Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus) system is in use, which works by continually drawing air into a pipe network with a high efficiency aspirator. The pipe network collects throughout the facility which then passes through a dual stage filter. The first stage removes dust and dirt from the air sample before it allows the sample to enter a laser detection chamber for extremely early smoke detection. The VESDA system's highly sensitive receiver system produces a signal that is processed and presented via a bar graph display that is subsequently communicated to the buildings fire alarm control panel notifying the local Queensland Fire and Rescue Service instantly.
In typical Sanity Technology fashion, simply implementing a VESDA system was not the only measure taken. During the initial build process the facility was stripped back to the basics of a concrete floor and concrete ceiling with the removal of all pre-existing wiring, air-conditioning, ceiling tiles, lighting, etc. Subsequently fire-rated walls were erected to fully enclose the facility from external elements, with an exposed ceiling with suspended lighting and uni-strut supported electrical cabling.
Detailed Monitoring
Every measurable aspect of the facility is logged to a centrally managed environmental monitoring solution specifically designed to detect and alert to factors that require attention by Sanity Technology staff. The range of factors monitored includes the following metrics:
- Overall power usage, drilled down to each individual cabinet.
- Overall cooling demand, drilled down each individual InRow cooling unit.
- Temperature within the facility, including multiple temperature probes at various locations inside each HACS system.
- The functional status of each InRow cooling unit, with detailed temperature, gas pressure and efficiency metrics available.
- The availability and measure of each electricity feed via the electricity grid and the UPS power demand.
- Water leak detection surrounding InRow cooling units and throughout the facility floor space.
- Air quality via measurement of dust and particles in the air, including various gases and smoke.
- Continuous CCTV monitoring to a centralized off-site recording system.
- Swipe card access control, logging each entry and exit of staff and clients to the facility.
Security
Physical security to the facility is provided to clients and staff via proximity smart-cards, coupled with round the clock CCTV monitoring inside the facility and over the exit and entry areas. The provision of 24/7 un-escorted access to the facility is available to clients with individually lockable cabinets.