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Secure Hosting

Secure Hosting: Redundant Infrastructure, High-Availability Servers

  • Built on a company-owned, 17-acre parcel equipped with anti-ram vehicle perimeter barriers, the newest Recovery Point hosting facility has been designed to meet the High Level Threat design criteria for blast protection as published by the GSA's Interagency Security Committee.

    In an industry where "redundant infrastructure" and "secure hosting" are greatly misused, Recovery Point's newest hosting site rightfully claims those terms. It is demonstrably the most sophisticated and secure facility commercially available today. Here's why:

    Data Hosting


    Recovery Point's series of interconnected, company-owned hosting sites are equipped to offer the flexibility, scalability and availability needed in an ever-changing business environment. Foremost in this equation is Recovery Point's focus on industry-leading security. Every choice, every change, every single tweak made to our infrastructure, regardless of how seemingly insignificant, inevitably comes back to one thought: how will these changes affect security?

    Elements Comprising the Whole


    Listed below are some of our new hosting facility security's highlights.

    Electrical

    •    Dual underground power feeds via dispersed entrances

    •    Up to 10 Megawatt reserve power generation with N+1 configuration

    •    Seven-day, on-site fuel supply at full load

    •    Dual-corded internal power distribution

    •    2N UPS support with 10-minute power supply at full load

    Network

    •    Carrier-neutral services

    •    Dark fiber to carrier hotels for cross connects to all major providers

    •    Primary and secondary East Coast facilities linked by 15-mile bi-directional, self-healing dark fiber ring for a secure, geographically-dispersed campus

    •    Multiple Tier One providers with diverse paths and building entries
    •    Dual DMARCs 300 feet apart supporting redundant fiber entries

    Mechanical

    •    Fully redundant chiller plant (2N)

    •    Dual-fuel boiler plant

    •    Data centers provisioned with N+1 (N+1 (N=3)) Liebert CRAC units

    •    Self-sealing building designed for chem/bio air purification systems

    •    Drainage system above the 100-year flood plain.

    Physical Security

    •    Owner-occupied fenced facilities

    •    No signage or public access

    •    Exterior doors meet the UL 907 standards for ballistic protection and ASTM Standard 1540 for forced entry protection

    •    Windows meet GSA ISC criteria for blast protection

    •    Interior lobbies constructed as blast/ballistic containment areas per GSA/ISC requirements.

    •    Ballistic personnel isolation traps at key passages points and guard booths

    •    Card key entry and biometric authentication

    •    Remote mail delivery

    •    Escort-only access inside hosting centers
     
    Recovery Point's strategically located Hosting sites are designed to work in unison without sharing common risks.
     
    All sites are:

    •    Unmarked and owner occupied

    •    Provisioned with 100 percent UPS power for all critical infrastructure

    •    Provisioned with 100 percent generator power for all critical infrastructure

    •    Provisioned with a seven-day fuel supply

    •    Provisioned with diverse fiber entries for communications vendors

    •    Provisioned with high-speed transport to major Internet peering points

    No sites are:

    •    Near a symbolic terrorist target

    •    Near a high-risk activity or in the flight path of a major airport

    •    Within 25 miles of a major city

    •    Served by the same electricity provider as another site

    Hosting Infrastructure


    •    Supports the latest high-density blade systems, in-row, supplemental cooling systems and IBM's new Power6 water-cooled processors

    •    Incorporates concurrent maintenance capabilities for power and cooling

    •    Supports direct network links into carrier hotels for cross connect to virtually any provider

    •    Secure on-site work rooms connect directly to hosted equipment

    Customers may host production systems or dedicated disaster recovery configurations in facilities which share the same network as all other Recovery Point services including hot site, cold site, work area, electronic data storage and tape vaulting.

    If security is a concern, consider Recovery Point for your DR services. Call or email now to speak to one of our specialists and find out how we can craft a plan to fit your business's needs.

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