Inside a KVH Data Center: Designing for Resilience in Asia

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By Mei-Lin Chua, Cloud & Data Center Editor · 5 June 2015

A data center is easy to take for granted until something goes wrong. The servers get the attention, but the thing that keeps them running - and keeps your business online - is the facility around them: its power, its cooling, its connectivity and the people who operate it around the clock.

Power and cooling: no single point of failure

Resilience begins with power. A well-designed facility uses 2N redundancy - dual power feeds that traverse entirely separate infrastructure all the way to the racks - so that no single failure can take a customer offline. Cooling follows the same philosophy: redundant units and carefully managed airflow keep high-density racks within tolerance even under load. KVH’s Tier 3+ facilities, such as Singapore Data Center 1, are built to exactly this standard.

Connectivity is part of the building

A data center that you cannot reach cheaply and quickly is only half useful. That is why carrier-neutral connectivity and on-net access to KVH’s ultra low latency network are designed into our facilities from the start - so colocation, cloud and interconnect all draw on the same high-quality platform. The full picture is on our Data Center Services page.

People and process

Finally, resilience is operational. Certified processes, 24×7 on-site engineers and rigorous monitoring turn good hardware into a dependable service. It is the combination - facility, network and operations - that lets a customer like Jorudan run a service used by millions of people every month without worrying about the infrastructure beneath it.

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Mei-Lin Chua - Cloud & Data Center Editor

Mei-Lin writes on cloud strategy, colocation and data center design across the Asia-Pacific region, with a background in infrastructure engineering in Singapore and Hong Kong.

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