Technoserv, a leading Russian systems integrator and IT service provider since 1992, announced last week that the design of its Technopark-Mordovia data center was certified as Tier IV Fault Tolerant by the Uptime Institute, a NY-based data center researcher and consultancy.
Located in Saransk some 640km east of Moscow, the data center is now Russia’s first such facility certified to comply with the American organization’s highest reliability and safety standard. Only the data centers of Rostelecom, MegaFon, Sberbank or Kazan IT Park were previously awarded the Tier III category classification, according to the Uptime Institute’s website.
To secure a Tier IV certification, a data center is expected to house all its servers in a separate building and all power supply, conditioning and other key systems must be electronically controlled and reinforced through multiple backups to prevent any operational disruption during repairs or overhauls. For a Tier IV data center, a maximum downtime of 24 minutes per year is allowed and a 99.995% fault tolerance factor is required.
Technoserv’s Technopark-Mordovia data center is viewed as a pivotal component of what may evolve to become an interregional data center network to support the infrastructure of Russia’s e-government. Commercial customers, such as banks and insurers, may also rent space in the center.
