Hosting News – Charlotte — Hosted Solutions, the East Coast’s premier provider of enterprise-class managed hosting solutions, today announced it has completed a significant, multi-million dollar expansion of one of its SAS 70 Type II data centers in Charlotte, North Carolina. The expansion includes 6,000 square feet of additional space and incorporates advanced technology, making it one of the most robust facilities in the Southeastern United States. The expansion doubles the critical load capacity of the facility, and implements a full range of features, designed to ensure maximum uptime for Hosted Solutions’ clients, including: * A 2N power distribution design, with redundant power infrastructure * Two-megawatt total capacity, with redundant 2.5MVA utility transformers * Automated failover between the primary and standby generators, in case of failure * Redundant automatic transfer switches and 1100kVA uninterruptible power system (UPS), with the ability to provide up to 30 minutes of emergency battery power at full load * Foreseer Building Management System for “real-time” monitoring of all critical infrastructure The 2N design is a significant improvement over the industry-standard N+1 implementation. N+1 provides fault tolerance, but is still susceptible to failure. 2N power distribution design features dedicated redundant elements from top to bottom, including generators, utility feeds, main electrical switchboards, and more. The system is designed so that maintenance can be performed on a component on one of the sides, without impacting the datacenter load; each side is capable of handling the full facility load when the other side fails.
