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Every day, we check emails, post our latest updates to various social media platforms. Some of us even manage our personal blog or website.<\/p>\n
Have you ever wondered what is behind all these online activities? When you post or upload something online, where does the data go?<\/p>\n
The answer is Data Center.<\/p>\n
A data center is a facility composed of networked computers and storage. Companies, big or small, use the facility to organize, process, store and distribute large amounts of data.<\/p>\n
Enterprises usually rely heavily on the applications, services, and data contained in the data center, making it the focus and key asset of their daily operations.<\/p>\n
When looking for a data center, it\u2019s important to understand these ratings because they can provide you with uptime guidance, and uptime determines how long the data center can be fully operational.<\/p>\n
Uptime Institute<\/a>‘s rating began in the mid-1990s. This is a white paper, “Classification Defines Site Infrastructure Performance”. The purpose is to outline the standards for data center design and investment.<\/p>\n Since then, these ratings have been helping data centers achieve high-quality levels to ensure uptime.<\/p>\n Data centers can be divided into 4 tiers. Each tier has increasing requirements.<\/p>\n Small businesses usually take advantage of the requirements of Tier 1 data centers, which have the following characteristics:<\/p>\n The benefits offered by Tier 2 facilities include:<\/p>\n Tier 2 data centers are for small and medium enterprise customers. It is more efficient than the level II system. Secondary providers can also handle more customers.<\/p>\n Companies whose network traffic matches small businesses are best suited for this level. In most cases, it is much cheaper than Tier 3.<\/p>\n Large enterprises use tier 3 data center specifications and have the following characteristics:<\/p>\n Companies that use Tier 3 providers are usually growing companies or companies that are larger than the average small and medium-sized enterprise. Most data center companies ranked by the Uptime Institute have a Class 3 ranking.<\/p>\n The tier 3 also has lower charges than the tier 4. If you have a budget constraint, you can choose tier 3 and expand to higher levels in the future.<\/p>\n Tier 4 data center certification usually provides services for enterprise companies using the following guarantees and benefits:<\/p>\n Tier 4 is considered enterprise-level services. If you need to host mission-critical servers, tier 4 data centers are for you. The tier 4 data center can ensure the safety of your business, including taking care of mechanical failure.<\/p>\n It offers complete fault tolerance so that your business will not be slowed down by any issues.<\/p>\n Tier 4 colocation is definitely the most expensive option. This is why this level is dominated by international brands with consistently high levels of traffic or processing demand.<\/p>\n Exabytes\u2019 second data center in Singapore<\/a>, Rack Central 1 is located within the central Data Centre zone in the heart of Singapore at Tai Seng Drive.<\/p>\n It is a carrier-class Tier 3 Internet Data Centre housed just meters away from a Global Switch Carrier Aggregation Data Centre.<\/p>\n Rack Central 1 houses close to 60 multinational customers, and more than 10 local and international telcos.<\/p>\n With a capacity of 1000 racks, it is designed to specifications of PUE of 1.8 and offers Tier 3 equivalent power, cooling and telecommunications services designed to TIA-942 standards.<\/p>\n RC1 offers a full suite of colocation services ranging from Nano DC to manage cloud hosting, basic co-lo racks to fully customizable cages and suites.<\/p>\n Availability choices are effectively accessible with this carrier-neutral data center with multiple direct dark fibre connectivity into Global Switch and Equinix.<\/p>\n This enables Exabytes<\/a> to have access to over 500 global and local network operators and additionally On-Net data center connectivity to other key data centers around the region.<\/p>\n Furthermore, RC1 is TVRA assessed and ISO 23001 BCM certified. This integrated service data center is not only ready to host the production IT but it\u2019s also designed as a secondary DR\/BCP site.<\/p>\n With space fitted out and ready to deploy up to 120 seats BCP seats (customizable up to 1000+ seats), Exabytes data center<\/a> is fully equipped to manage services for annual BCP\/DRP testing.<\/p>\nDefinition of Data Center Tiers\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Tier 1 Data Center<\/h3>\n
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Tier 2 Data Center<\/h3>\n
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Tier 4 Data Centre<\/h3>\n
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