Saint Paul, Minnesota
VISI’s world-class St. Paul Data Center is located in the Lowertown section of downtown St. Paul and provides highly redundant and reliable data center services to all of greater Minnesota. VISI established the data center in 2000, purchasing the facility from Burlington Northern Railroad. VISI’s St. Paul Data Center is considered one of the city’s most wired buildings, where in addition to VISI’s private network, five carriers have points of presence in the data center. VISI has demonstrated its commitment to the St. Paul data center by investing over $3M since 2008 to upgrade and maintain critical infrastructure components. (VISI’s recent expansion and infrastructure upgrades are chronicled on our blog.
VISI also provides several amenities that truly enable the data center to be an extension of client’s internal IT staff and infrastructure.
• Staging Area – VISI provides space in the facility for customer staging of equipment prior to installation
• Onsite Storage – VISI offers onsite storage for colocation customers
• Meeting Room – Onsite conference room is available for customer use
Specifications
| Facility | |
|---|---|
| Design | 17,000 usable square feet of raised floor |
| Size | Data center completed in 2000; expanded in 2010 |
| Access | Data Center access – 24x7x365 |
| Utility | Xcel Energy |
| Compliance | |
| Audit | Operating under SAS 70 Operating Procedures |
| Security | Internal Control Environment enables PCI, HIPAA, SOX, and GLBA requirements |
| Connectivity | |
| Internet Bandwidth | Managed bandwitdth and BGP routing across redundant Internet backbone connections with multiple Tier 1 carriers |
| Fiber | Redundant building fiber entrances |
| Type | Carrier neutral facility |
| Carrier | VISI/TDS, Qwest |
| Ports | Redundant bandwidth ports available |
| Security | |
| Guard | Security guard present 24x7x365 |
| Access Control | Three token authentication: Card access, biometric hand scan, and PIN |
| Surveillance | Video surveillance of data center and perimeter |
| Fire Suppression | Gaseous fire suppression with above and below-floor smoke and ionic sensors for early detection |
| Power | |
| Grid | Building service from robust city power grid |
| UPS | Multiple UPS systems providing conditioned power |
| Generator | Diesel-powered generators housed in building sub-basement with onsite fuel to provide five days of continuous power |
| Redundant | Redundant (A/B) “2N” power available |
| Circuits | 120v, 208v single and three-phase power available |
| Cooling | |
| Chillers | N+1 chiller units |
| CRAC | N+1 20-ton and 30-ton CRAC units |
| Support | |
| Onsite Support | 24x7x365 onsite technical support staff |
| Remote Hands | Remote hands and eyes support available |
| Managed Services | Monitoring, tracking, and reporting on alerts, incidents, and key event |
