Telefónica inaugurates its largest data center to offer advanced digital services

The first phase of Telefónica's Alcalá Data Center project, the largest and largest in the company, It is already operational to house "the digital and technological infrastructures of the future".

Telephone has inaugurated the first phase of the five phases of the Alcalá Data Center project, in which it has invested more than 100,000 times so far. 120 millions of euros, of a budget line item of 300 € million in the coming years. This DPC "will become a global benchmark from the beginning and will aim to transform Telefónica into one of the leading companies in the new digital world".

Located in the Madrid town of Alcalá de Henares, the new DPC consists of a total of twenty-three Information Technology rooms (IT), and a constructed area of 65,700 m2, on a plot of land equivalent to eight football pitches.

Alcalá Data Center has been designed with a modular configuration, redundant in power supply and communications, and able to ensure the highest levels of flexibility, reliability, Safety & Efficiency.

With this project, Telefónica responds to the challenge of implementing an innovative centre with the maximum capacity to house the digital services of the future. The company has already laid the foundations to consolidate its leadership in the new digital environment, in which it aims to globally exploit the video and entertainment businesses, e-advertising (advertising), e-health (ICT services for health), financial services, Cloud computing, and M2M (Machine-to-machine connections), among others.

The center, built by Ferrovial and Master of Engineering, with the technological advice of Digital Realty, will cover the full range of ICT services from the hosting, infrastructures and cloud computing to the total outsourcing of the client's applications. It will also serve as the company's cloud services base for Europe and will host customer platforms and those of Telefónica in Spain, United Kingdom, Germany and Czech Republic.

The first phase of the DPC is located in a building of 24.700 m2, with seven IT rooms 682 m2 each. The complete project, that will progressively advance, will extend over a total area of 65.700 m2 and will integrate another sixteen IT rooms, on a surface of 78.400 m2. Each module will be independent and new rooms can be activated without affecting the operation of the rest.

Similarly, the 1.200 kW of IT power per room can be multiplied by up to four without impact on the hosted systems. This configuration will allow customers to carry out their technological evolution without high investments or power limitations or due to the increasing concentration of servers. The rooms will accommodate high-density areas through hot and cold aisle containment, Designed for high-end computing and cloud computing environments.

Such capabilities ensure the reliability of the 99,995% annual. In this sense, the design is Tier IV certified by the Uptime Institute, that supports the highest level of fault tolerance. Its interconnection by a redundant fiber optic ring with Julián Camarillo's DPC (Madrid) It will allow them to act as mutual support centers in the event of failures.

Alcalá Datacenter will offer the latest in infrastructure outsourcing services, accommodation, Backup, storage, monitoring, Complete system outsourcing, IT Contingency Services, Etc. In addition, Special focus will be placed on new cloud services, making the Virtual Datacenter service available to customers, A flexible and tailor-made facility, with which a company gets a private space in the most secure environment to install all the business applications it needs.

The project incorporates the excellence requirements of international standards, as Green IT for co-efficiency and sustainability, which includes the latest electrical and HVAC infrastructures to reduce approximately one 75% energy consumption. Design-wise, Construction & Operation, the necessary score has been obtained for the Green Building Council's Leed Silver certification.

The same, Alcalá Data Center has been designed to meet all the requirements of the different certifications in management quality and security, with CCTV and 24 CCTV×7, with cameras installed both at the perimeter and in the IT rooms and interior corridors. In some restricted areas, The passage will be cleared by proximity card readers and fingerprint readers.

The opening ceremony was attended by the Chairman of Telefónica, Cesar Alierta; the President of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Gonzalez; the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and for the IS, Víctor Calvo Sotelo; the Secretary of State for Research, Development & Innovation, Carmen Vela, and the Mayor of Alcalá de Henares, Javier Bello.

This project has been co-financed by the Ministry of Economy and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through loans from 19.203.598 and 4.750.512 Euros, respectively.

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