TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT (TOKYO:9432) Group, announced today that its “Germany Munich 2 Data Center” (Munich 2) has opened, effective immediately, in Unterschleißheim, a suburb of Munich, Germany located 16km from the city center. The facility is under the management of e-shelter, a NTT Com company and leading data-center operator and service provider in Europe.
The two-story Munich 2 initially is offering 2,800 square meters of server space, equivalent to 1,100 racks, which is expected to expand to 5,600 square meters. The facility is operating under NTT Com’s Nexcenter™ brand, which encompasses 24/7 data-center services in more than 140 bases worldwide.
e-shelter, which is known as “home to the cloud,” was joined by customers, partners, media and civic leaders to celebrate the opening of its second data center in Munich. The festivities included a welcoming address by the mayor of Unterschleißheim, Christoph Böck.
Munich 2, the latest example of e-shelter’s ongoing growth, follows the mid-April launch of the highly anticipated e-shelter innovation lab in Frankfurt. e-shelter expects to open additional data centers in Europe this year.
Highly reliable and energy-saving functions
Munich 2 delivers
data-center services based on more than 300 globally unified standards
that Nexcenter™ facilities have implemented for equipment and
operations. The facility has adopted the industry’s top standards to
ensure high availability and energy savings. e-shelter designed the
structure to adapt flexibly to environmental changes and future
expansion. A stable and secure environment is assured by redundant
electrical equipment and power supply for air conditioning. Advanced
security and telecommunication equipment satisfy enterprises in need of
ultimate reliability, such as financial institutions. Munich 2 achieves
superior energy savings thanks to the latest technologies for efficient
cooling and automatic control of cooling-water paths and amounts,
leveraging access to cool groundwater available locally year-round, as
well as automatic control of electricity use that is visualized with an
original e-shelter program.
Strict measures for operational management and security
Munich 2
provides customer systems with robust protection based on standardized
operational processes and multi-phase security. Internal personnel, not
external providers, conduct thorough risk management and other important
tasks, including 24/7 monitoring of key infrastructure and
double-checking of security process by two staffers. Customers can
request additional security measures for entering the server room, etc.
by controlling access with multi-phase contactless IC cards and
biometric authentication. Unauthorized facility entry is prevented with
interior and exterior cameras, sensors around the building and a road
barrier for approaching cars.
High-quality network environment
Munich 2 provides circuits from
more than 10 providers using different paths. Also, all circuits are
duplicated in the meet-me-room for telecom provider interconnection, the
server room and the network racks. Customers can use maximum 10Gbps
internet circuits and carrier-neutral multiple network, as well as build
seamless ICT environments combining NTT Com data centers and cloud
services worldwide.
Background
In Europe, NTT Com delivers data center services in
Austria, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the UK (see Appendix
1). In Germany, NTT Com has actively expanded its base in the
country’s busy data-center market serving financial, software,
automotive, electricity and publication companies.
Please see Appendix 2 for more details of Munich 2.
About NTT Communications Corporation
NTT Communications
provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to
optimize the information and communications technology (ICT)
environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company’s
worldwide infrastructure, including the leading global tier-1 IP
network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196
countries/regions, and over 140 secure data centers worldwide. NTT
Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group
companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
www.ntt.com
| Twitter@NTT
Com | Facebook@NTT
Com | LinkedIn@NTT
Com
About e-shelter
e-shelter is one of the leading data center
operators in Europe, providing highly secure environments for housing
and connectivity of IT and network systems. With a presence in all key
city-markets of the DACH-region, e-shelter leverages 300 MW of power
capacity and 90,000 sqm of data center space to deliver scalable data
center solutions. As a member of the NTT Communications Group, e-shelter
provides access to a global network of 140 data centers. Among
e-shelter’s clients are financial services companies, telecoms
operators, IT service and outsourcing providers as well as cloud service
providers.
In addition to e-shelter, the companies Arkadin, Dimension Data,
itelligence, NTT Communications, NTT DATA and NTT Security are part of
the NTT Group in Germany. In this region, the NTT Group represents
around 5,300 employees and revenue of more than € 1.2 billion.
You
can find further information on the global NTT Group at www.ntt-global.com.
http://www.e-shelter.com
