Telefónica inaugurates its largest data center to offer advanced digital services

The first phase of Telefónica's Alcalá Data Center project, the largest and most capable of the company, It is already operational to host “the digital and technological infrastructures of the future”.

Telefónica has inaugurated the first phase of the five of the Alcalá Data Center project, in which he has invested so far more than 120 million euros, of a budget item 300 million euros in the coming years. This CPD “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 CPD consists of a total of twenty-three Information Technology rooms (IT), and a constructed area of 65,700 m2, on land equivalent to eight football fields.

Alcalá Data Center has been designed with a modular configuration, redundant in power supply and communications, and capable of guaranteeing the highest levels of flexibility, reliability, safety and efficiency.

With this project, Telefónica responds to the challenge of implementing an innovative center 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), inter alia.

the center, built by Ferrovial and Master Engineering, with the technological advice of Digital Realty, will cover the full range of ICT services from accommodation, infrastructures and cloud computing to the total outsourcing of the client's applications. It will also function 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 CPD is located in a building 24.700 m2, with seven IT rooms 682 m2 each. The complete project, that will progress progressively, 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.

Likewise, los 1.200 kW of IT power for each room can be multiplied by up to four without impact on the hosted systems. This configuration will allow clients to carry out their technological evolution without high investments or power limitations or due to the increasing concentration of servers.. The rooms will house high-density areas through containment of hot and cold aisles, designed for high computing and cloud computing environments.

Such capabilities guarantee reliability of the 99,995% annual. In this sense, The design has Tier IV certification from the Uptime Institute, that guarantees the highest level of fault tolerance. Its interconnection through a redundant fiber optic ring with the CPD of Julián Camarillo (Madrid) will allow them to act as mutual backup centers in case of failures.

Alcalá Datacenter will offer the latest in infrastructure outsourcing services, accommodation, backup, storage, monitoring, complete systems outsourcing, IT contingency services, etc. Besides, Special focus will be placed on new cloud services, making the Virtual Datacenter service available to customers, a flexible and tailored facility, with which a company obtains a private space in the most secure environment to install all the business applications it needs.

The project incorporates the excellence requirements of international regulations, as Green IT of coefficiency and sustainability, which includes the latest electrical and air conditioning infrastructure to reduce approximately one 75% energy consumption. Regarding design, construction and operation, The necessary score for Leed Silver certification from the Green Building Council has been obtained.

Also, Alcalá Data Center has been designed to meet all the requirements of the different certifications in management quality and security, with closed circuit television and 24-hour video surveillance×7, with cameras installed both on the perimeter and in IT rooms and interior hallways. In some restricted access areas, The passage will be cleared using proximity card readers and fingerprint readers.

The opening ceremony was attended by the president of Telefónica, Cesar Alierta; the president of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Gonzalez; the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and for the SI, Victor Calvo Sotelo; Secretary of State for Research, Development and 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 (Feder) through loans 19.203.598 y 4.750.512 euros, respectively.