In the capital of the Netherlands and within a radius of 50 km, 70% of all data centers in the country and a third of all data centers in Europe are located. Most of them opened just in the last five years. This is really a lot, considering that Amsterdam is a relatively small city. Even Ryazan is bigger! It got to the point that in July 2019, the authorities of the Dutch capital, concluding that there are no such number of data centers as in Amsterdam in any other major city in the world, decided to limit the construction of new data centers at least until the end of 2019. What is it that attracts data center operators and other IT companies (including us) to Amster? Of course, we have not yet built our own data center there, but we have opened a new containment area. About her - in the second part of the article, and in the first - about the coveted Amsterdam.
According to The Netherlands is also one of the largest fintech hubs in Europe with over 430 companies active on the market. The reason for the moratorium on the construction of new data centers is as follows: they began to take up too much space (at the same time, significantly changing the look of the city, which attracts tourists in many respects with its unique historical architecture) and create an untenable load on the energy system and the real estate market (an influx of technology companies, coupled with the ever-growing tourist flow has already led to the fact that housing in Amsterdam is becoming unaffordable for most residents of the city). By the way, the city tried to reduce the flow of tourists by limiting the work of Airbnb and introducing a ban on visiting the "Red Light District". The moratorium was introduced in order to take a break and formulate a policy for the placement of data centers in order to better control the situation in this area.
Dutch Fintech Infographic 4.0 by Holland Fintech
Why Amsterdam attracts data center operators
Cheap electricity
According to the Dutch Data Center Association (DDCA), data centers in the country are fully electrified and run on 80% clean energy from renewable sources, which puts them in the first place among companies in terms of sustainability. At one time, the Dutch capital actively lured technology companies with attractive taxes and relatively cheap electricity. Now I'm thinking.
Low taxes
Actually, the reason for establishing low taxes was announced above β attempts to attract fintech companies from all over the world. The situation has changed, but tax legislation cannot be changed quickly, so this item remains valid.
Loyal legislation
Local data sovereignty laws are too good for a Russian person to be true. Nevertheless, thanks to them, no one will be able to seize the server from you without a court decision as βevidenceβ for various reasons at any time. The law of the Netherlands also allows what is prohibited in other countries of the world: content of an "adult" theme (adult). As a result, the services of the Dutch data centers are used not only by webmasters, but also by those hosting providers who earn on the sale of bulletproof hosting - a service where you have the opportunity to post information of any nature and be calm about what the hosting company will be able to do without warning remove it at the first complaint (abuse). As "information of any nature" can be not only adult, but also warez, pharma, doorways, spam.
Convenient location, resulting in fast peering, low latency and no channel loss
Π in general and in Amsterdam in particular, it is simply an ideal data center location for enterprises located in different parts of Europe, since 80% of European locations can be reached in just 50 milliseconds. Over the past few years, technology companies have rushed to build such facilities because businesses and individuals are increasingly storing data online and wanting quick access to it. The push for such centers also coincided with the demand generated by the sheer volume of online transactions. And also Amsterdam is a suitable entry point for cloud providers to the European market with direct access to a hundred operators (yes).
So it's time to talk about our new containment area, the Interxion AMS9 data center, which is located in the Science Park () - the leading interconnection center of Amsterdam, located in the province of North Holland (where there is even a museum of Peter I in the town of Zaandam).
Data center in Amsterdam: Interxion AMS9 data center
The campus features 5225 m2 of client space on 11 floors with many high-quality connectivity options. More than 120 companies "live" here, ranging from start-ups to multinational corporations. It is an ever-expanding ecosystem that delivers commercial IT experiences with very low latency and secure connections.
Science Park Data Center is owned by the company β European data center service provider. It is located in the heart of Amsterdam. As the site where the Amsterdam Internet Exchange was first established, it hosts a rich and diverse community of communication service providers.
The company's core offering is carrier-independent communications, which includes providing space, power, and a secure environment to host customers' computing, networking, warehouse, and IT infrastructure. Interxion also complements its core colocation offering with a range of value-added services, including system monitoring, systems management, technical support services, data backup and storage.
In its data centers, Interxion allows approximately 1500 customers to host their equipment and connect to a wide range of carriers and ISPs, as well as other customers. Data centers act as content and connectivity hubs that facilitate the processing, storage, sharing, and distribution of that content, applications, data, and media between operators and customers.
Interxion's client base is in high-growth market segments, including financial services, digital media, cloud and managed service providers, telecom operators. It is a key communications center for customers serving the Netherlands and Western Europe.
Infrastructure
The equipped colocation site covers an area of ββ1800 m2 and is located in an ultra-modern reinforced concrete building. Floor load 1,196 kg/m2. Connecting to the community of customers, suppliers and partners within Interxion datacenters is done with low-latency cross-connects. Customer information and communications equipment (ICT) can be placed in secure cabinets, racks and stacks, or in private rooms. The premises also have dedicated offices and portals for clients, a common conference room.
There are special flood protection areas: the so-called 100-year floodplain (Outside 100 Year Floodplain) and 500-year floodplain (Outside 500 Year Floodplain). The location of the floodplains is organized from calculations based on a statistical frequency analysis of the repetition interval, which is used to estimate the probability of a severe flood with precipitation - "100-year flood" () and "500-year flood" (500-year flood). This means that the probability of flooding in the first case is 1 in 100 (ie 1% in any year), in the second case it is 1 in 500 (ie 0,2% in any year).
Energy saving
The total power of the data center is 2600 kW. The maximum rack power is 10,0 kW. The type of power supply at the input is one power channel (Single Feed). Electricity distribution is carried out according to the type of parallel redundancy (Parallel Redundant); simultaneously serviced mechanical and electrical systems.
Redundant power supplies are arranged according to the schemes:
- UPS Redundancy - N+1; UPS type is static.
- Power Distribution Unit (PDU) - N+1.
- Generator redundancy - N+1.
- The operating time of the diesel generator at full load is 24 hours.
Energy efficiency is ensured by a sophisticated cold aisle containment configuration and airflow management optimization features. Interxion AMS9 has agreements with various suppliers of several types of fuel.
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Type of primary cooling - chillers with air cooling (Air-cooled Chillers). Cooling Limits for Air Conditioners in a Computer Room with Downflow (Redundancy ; you can read about it ) implemented with special solutions for heat dissipation in high-density data center cooling systems; N+1 redundancy. Redundancy of the cooling tower and chillers is also equipped according to the N + 1 scheme.
Security
The security level of the Interxion AMS9 data center is Tier 3. Security personnel are on site 24/7. Controlled perimeter, XNUMX/XNUMX remote monitoring through cameras, biometric authentication, two-factor authentication and magnetic card access.
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Additional services
Interxion offers services Hands & Eyes to perform routine or emergency support tasks, which include:
- Unpacking and assembly of equipment on site;
- Site preparation (installation, connection to the power grid, etc. on a turnkey basis);
- Installation of servers, routers, switches and patch panels (patch panel, cross-panel);
- Network connection and wiring;
- Switch and route configuration;
- Technical support and troubleshooting;
- Infrastructure audit and documentation preparation;
- Replacement or upgrade of equipment.
Network Operations Center (Network Operations Center, NOC) - behavior monitoring
IT infrastructure of the client's business. The service is especially useful for small and medium enterprises that do not have an IT department, or for very large companies that can become a difficult task to administer.
DCIM for clients β Data Center Infrastructure Management, a solution that provides control over every device in a rack, helping to automate monitoring processes that used to be done manually. Achieved through the implementation of specialized software, hardware and sensors, DCIM provides a common real-time monitoring and control platform for all interdependent systems in the IT and facility infrastructure. identify and eliminate sources of risk and increase the availability of critical IT systems. It can also be used to identify interdependencies between equipment and IT infrastructure, to warn of gaps in system redundancy, and to provide dynamic, holistic energy and efficiency benchmarks.
Conclusion
Working with the Amsterdam data center, for example with Interxion AMS9, you will have one of the fastest connections in Europe, as the data center will be connected to the largest Internet traffic exchange points with convenient access to any data from anywhere in the world at any time with a wide choice of channels and the lowest latency of 99,99999% globally.
Convenient geographic location makes it possible to build a good connection with both America and Europe at the same time, including Ukraine and Russia - the main consumers of traffic in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet.
Loyal Dutch legislation allows you to post content that is restricted in other countries, including Russia (for example, adult, despite the fact that the share of adult foreign traffic is estimated at up to 54%). And most importantly, the protection of your data by law will not allow any structure, including law enforcement agencies, to remove information from your servers.
Due to expansion to the Netherlands, we hope to see you among our new and regular customers.
Source: habr.com