Data Center Services > Munich

Bare metal and virtua­li­zation > Data cen­ters use both physi­cal serv­ers (bare metal) and virtu­al­ized environ­ments. Virtu­al­ization solutions (e.g. VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM) enable the creation and manage­ment of multi­ple VMs on a single host, which the resource utili­zation is opti­mized.

Blade and rack serv­ers > Blade ser­vers offer high den­sity and efficiency, while rack serv­ers are modular and offer greater flex­ibil­ity in terms of up­grades and main­te­nance offer.

Hard­ware specifications > Current serv­er hard­ware includes multi-core pro­cessors, large RAM ca­pacities, fast stor­age (e.g. NVMe SSDs) and Giga­bit Ether­net net­work inter­faces.

Storage arrays > En­ter­prise stor­age arrays pro­vide high avail­abil­ity, data repli­cation, and tiering. Flash-based all-flash arrays (AFAs) enable low loads and high IOPS.

Software-Defined Storage (SDS) > Tech­nol­ogies such as VMware vSAN, Ceph, and Micro­soft Storage Spaces Direct enable the pro­vision of Pro­vision of stor­age-based services on con­ven­tion­al serv­er hard­ware, thereby creat­ing a scalable and flexible stor­age en­vi­ron­ment is.

Dedupli­ca­tion & Compression > Data De­dupli­cation and in­line com­pression is a stand­ard feature in modern stor­age sys­tems to maxi­mize effec­tive stor­age space.

Top-of-Rack (ToR) and End-of-Row (EoR) Switches > ToR switches reduce cable com­plex­ity by using short connec­tions to serv­ers in the same rack, while EoR switches use cen­tralized Provide connec­tions for multi­ple racks.

SDN and NFV > Soft­ware-Defined Net­work­ing (SDN) and Net­work Functions Virtuali­zation (NFV) enable cen­tralized con­trol and auto­mation of the net­work. Special solutions offer dynamic net­work pro­vision­ing and net­work security.

High-Speed Inter­connects > Modern data cen­ters use Giga­bit Ether­net for internal con­nec­tions and Infini­Band for high-per­for­mance com­put­ing (HPC) appli­cations with ex­tremely low la­tency. High-speed FPGA-based VPN gate­ways ensure high-per­for­mance packet pro­cess­ing.

Structured Cabling > A well-planned struc­tured ca­bling sys­tem uses hierarchi­cal to­polo­gies, color coding and stand­ard­ized con­nect­ors (LC, SC for fiber optic, RJ45 for copper) to mini­mize errors and to sim­pli­fy op­era­tion.

Cable trays and patch panels > Cable trays and patch panels en­able effi­cient and orderly laying of cables and facili­tate main­te­nance and ex­pansion work.

Con­nec­tiv­ity > Cloud- and carrier-inde­pen­dent connec­tion with optimal pro­vider selec­tion - for maxi­mum speed, reli­abi­lity and se­curity.

High-Density Racks > Pur­pose-designed racks with high power and cool­ing ca­pac­ity can support 20 kW or more of power per rack. They are equipped with per­forated doors and in­te­grat­ed cable manage­ment.

Intelli­gent racks > Inte­gra­ted moni­tor­ing solutions record power con­sump­tion, tem­pera­ture and humid­ity in real time and enable remote manage­ment.

Aisle enclosure / cooling / security > Aisle en­closures and other struc­tural measures enable the se­para­tion of hot and cold air and opti­mize the air flow for maxi­mum ef­fi­cien­cy of the air con­dition­ing systems. Access pro­tec­tion systems pro­vide addi­tional se­curity.

Cold Aisle / Hot Aisle Containment > The physi­cal separa­tion of hot and cold air streams in­creases the cool­ing ef­fi­cien­cy in­creased. Cold aisle en­closures pre­vent hot ex­haust air from mix­ing with the cool supply air.

Liquid cooling > Direct-to-chip liquid cool­ing and immer­sion cooling are used in high-per­formance com­put­ing cen­ters to to eliminate hot spots and en­able higher dens­ity per rack.

Free Cooling > Use the outside air tem­pera­ture for cool­ing in order to re­duce ener­gy con­sump­tion. This is often used in clima­ti­cally suitable regions.

Online UPS (Double Conversion) > With this tech­nol­ogy, the power is con­tinuously passed through the battery, en­suring a constant out­put voltage with­out switch­ing delay This pro­tects against vol­tage drops, over­voltages and fre­quency devia­tions.

Redun­dant UPS sys­tems > N+1 or 2N re­dun­dancy en­sures that the power supply remains se­cure even if a UPS module fails.

Auto­mation and moni­tor­ing > Modern gen­era­tors are in­tegra­ted into the buil­ding manage­ment system (BMS) and can start auto­mati­cal­ly and co­or­di­nate load trans­fer. They are equipped with re­mote moni­tor­ing and testing sys­tems to ensure op­era­tional readi­ness.

Fuel manage­ment > Diesel gen­era­tor sets have suffi­cient fuel for at least 48 hours of opera­tion and are connec­ted to auto­mated re­fueling sys­tems or ex­ternal supply chains.

PDU (Power Distri­bution Units) > Modern PDUs offer remote con­trolled switch­ing and power moni­tor­ing per socket. They sup­port functions such as Active Power Factor Correc­tion (PFC) and ensure stable current distribu­tion at dif­fer­ent input voltages.

Re­dun­dancy and load balancing > A+B power supply provides re­dun­dancy at rack level. Automatic transfer fer Switches (ATS) ensure un­inter­rup­ted switching be­tween pri­mary and secon­dary power sources.

Security solu­tions for data cen­ters > Fire­walls, Web Appli­ca­tion Fire­walls (WAFs), End­point Se­curity solu­tions, Anti­virus so­lu­tions, AI-based Mal­ware Pre­ven­tion, 2-factor authenti­cation, net­work access control, en­cryption tech­nolo­gies, VPN, SD-WAN services, appli­cation con­trols, In­trusion Pre­vention Systems (IPS), cyber de­fense so­lu­tions, email se­cur­ity and archiv­ing, secure web gate­ways, vul­nera­bility manage­ment, redun­dant sys­tems at se­parate loca­tions.

Zero Trust Archi­tec­ture > Every net­work seg­ment and every access point could be com­pro­mised. Multi-factor authenti­cation (MFA), micro-seg­menta­tion and ident­ity and access manage­ment (IAM) are key compo­nents for improv­ing se­curity.

DDoS pro­tection and WAFs > Data cen­ters use DDoS pro­tec­tion services and web applica­tion fire­walls/WAFs to pro­tect against volu­metric attacks and tar­geted appli­ca­tion layer attacks.

Fire prevention > fire de­tec­tion > fire fight­ing > Develop­ment and imple­men­tation of fire pro­tec­tion guide­lines. Smoke detectors, and opti­mized early war­ning sys­tems for quick res­ponse. Fight­ing fire and smoke with gas, water, fog sys­tems or hy­brid so­lutions.

Inert gas extin­guishing sys­tems > Gas extin­guishing sys­tems such as argon, inert gas or nitro­gen dis­place oxygen and extinguish fires with­out water damage. Soft flooding de­vices are able to extin­guish fires with­out damaging sen­si­tive electronics and mechanical mass stor­age.

Automatic acti­vation > Inte­gra­tion into the buil­ding manage­ment system (BMS) enables the auto­matic shut­down of HVAC sys­tems and the venti­lation of safe areas in the event of a fire.

IT infra­structure moni­tor­ing > Con­trol of the connec­tion, per­for­mance, utili­zation and se­curity of ser­ver sys­tems, stor­age sys­tems, net­work de­vices/swit­ches/fire­walls and pro­vider connec­tivity.

Data center/build­ing infra­struc­ture moni­tor­ing > Con­trol of power sys­tems (ven­dors, UPS, ge­nera­tors), heat­ing/cooling -/ven­ti­la­tion sys­tems (HVAC), security sys­tems (fire protection sys­tems, camera sur­veil­lance, scan­ners, access con­trol, doors, fences, etc.).

DCIM (Data Center Infra­struc­ture Manage­ment) > Com­pre­hen­sive moni­tor­ing, capacity planning and PUE analysis (Power Usage Effec­tive­ness).

SIEM (Security Infor­mation and Event Manage­ment) > Con­soli­da­tion and analy­sis of Secur­ity data from various sources for real-time de­tec­tion and response to secur­ity inci­dents.