Silver Spring/Washington, D.C.

Located at 12401 Prosperity Drive, Silver Spring, Maryland 20904

Renowned in the data center industry for its unsurpassed uptime record and highly secure environment, DataBridge Sites secure, 11-acre Silver Spring campus provides the best-in-class data center that’s perfect for the needs of organizations in Maryland and beyond. At 214,000 ft² (with 90,000 ft² raised floor space), this facility is the largest multi-tenant, ultra-secure, efficient data center available in the Philadelphia to Washington D.C. corridor. Convenient to federal, state, and Maryland enterprise users, it is purpose-built as a high-density enterprise storage vault. This enterprise class data center in Silver Spring, Maryland, is also ready to be conditioned as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).

Our facility was specifically designed for “financial grade” use. It provides the flexibility, agility, and resilience to support a variety of data center solutions, including production, cloud computing, data storage, and business continuity/disaster recovery. A highly experienced, expert data center operations staff has been key to the outstanding uptime record enjoyed by this facility.

This highly-compliant data center campus meets Tier 4 requirements for concurrent maintainability and fault tolerance. It is positioned to support N+2 or N+1 configurations capable of power densities exceeding 150 watts per ft². It offers diverse fiber data connectivity from multiple network providers via four different paths.

Aurora/Chicago

Located at 4267 Meridian Parkway, Aurora, Illinois 60504

Located 30 miles west of downtown Chicago on a five-acre secure campus in Chicago’s booming western suburbs, DataBridge Sites Aurora/Chicago data center was designed to meet the security and high-availability needs of a major, publicly-traded financial institution. Built and commissioned in 2007, this 70,000 ft², multi-tenant compliant data center facility (with 34,000 ft² raised floor space) offers the redundancy, resiliency, and multi-factor security protocols required for regulatory compliance with PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, and other industry-specific standards. This compliant data center provides convenient access to both O’Hare and Midway international airports.

The DataBridge Sites’ Aurora/Chicago data center offers a flexible leasing model to help companies achieve a lower total cost of occupancy (TCO). Customers can lease one or more dedicated environments. If requirements change, additional space and power are available so companies can easily scale up. Ample technical office space is also available.

The Aurora/Chicago data center is a Tier 3 compliant data center facility with redundant capacity components and multiple independent distribution paths serving all equipment. It has state-of-the-art electrical and mechanical systems to provide concurrently maintainable environments that support mission-critical, enterprise-scale data center requirements. It also benefits from a fiber-rich environment that enhances DataBridge Sites vendor-neutral connectivity options.

Redundancy & Reliability – DataBridge Sites data centers have 100% uptime records that are truly the envy of other data center operators. They are equipped with full Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) backup systems and fully redundant generators that let you achieve the highest attainable uptime in your quest for 100% availability.

Security 24/7/365 – DataBridge Sites data centers employ 24/7/365 on-site security to ensure the best protection of your mission-critical technology. Our physical and access controls have been third-party audited and validated, allowing you to meet and exceed the most challenging compliance requirements and certifications.

Power Density – DataBridge Sites have an established history of supporting power densities to meet any customer’s needs as they grow and scale. With floor loads capable of supporting super computing environments, and power distribution at the 120/208 and 277/480 levels, we can provide a solution to meet the most exacting density demands.

Compliant Colocation – American-owned DataBridge Sites data centers meet exacting standards, providing you with environments that maintain a wide array of certifications. SOC 2, ISO 9001, and ISO 27001 are some of the standards we retain. Additionally, we are aligned with GAMP5 for GxP systems, HIPAA-HITECH, FDA, PCI, and FISMA. And we provide the infrastructure and operations backbone, enabling our customers to earn many more.

Interconnection & Hybrid Solutions – DataBridge Sites interconnection provides direct access to multiple network carriers to seamlessly connect your environments. Direct connections with major carrier hotels in Ashburn, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, along with cloud providers, gives you nearly limitless connectivity options. Leveraging our proprietary managed cloud and/or managed data center services enables further options for true hybrid solutions.

Uptime/Performance – Mission critical apps and data require maximum uptime and performance, and nobody has a better uptime record than DataBridge Sites. You benefit from industry-leading uptime guarantees and SLAs.

For situations in which standard cloud providers don’t meet your specific or unusual IT needs, but your business would still benefit from infrastructure as a service, our Custom Private Cloud solution is a great way to get the best of both worlds.

In a Custom Private Cloud, we provide and manage our same vSphere-based platform described above, but on hardware dedicated to and customized for your business computing needs. Our engineering team will work with you to design and implement a customized hardware platform dedicated to your business, with the same ease-of-use and reliability as our standard Managed Cloud offering.  

This solution is ideal for a supporting variety of special-purpose computing needs, including:

• Virtual desktop and app platforms, including Citrix, VMWare Horizon, or Microsoft Remote Desktop
• High-performance or accelerated computing for research or engineering simulation
• Applications with high RAM density requirements such as ERP systems and in-memory databases
• Special-purpose storage needs

Our Shared Cloud offering is built on industry-standard hardware using the highly regarded VMWare vSphere cloud platform. With Shared Cloud, we provide virtual cloud servers built to your specifications with your choice of Windows or Linux operating systems.

Our technical staff is available 24/7 to manage the underlying virtualization hardware, leaving your IT staff free to concentrate on the software and services that define your business.

Managed Cloud includes the following:

• Highly-available, SLA-backed virtual servers hosted in a dedicated data center
• Integration with our SolarWinds monitoring platform for rapid status notifications
• Expandable redundant storage, with standard and performance-tier speeds available
• Isolated, secure virtual networks with firewall and available VPN connectivity
• Access to our backup and DR offerings
• Access to our range of network connectivity offerings
• Dedicated, on-site NOC available 24/7

Hardware and network management are only part of the costs associated with IT infrastructure. For many applications, regulatory compliance is a major part of the time and expense of IT.

With our compliant cloud hosting service, we provide managed compliance for the infrastructure and network levels of your business, freeing you to concentrate your efforts on your applications and services.

Businesses demand uptime and availability for the solutions they deploy and use. Any disruptions, whether they be a planned or unforeseen outages, can seriously affect the bottom line. Mitigate risk from downtime and protect against critical data loss

A converged business continuity solution allows for continuous replication to maintain data integrity, as well as backups, for long-term retention. DataBridge Sites network resources make once complex site failovers a breeze. Modern solutions make it is easy to “Land and Expand”, providing workload mobility and allowing ease of move between in-house and managed infrastructures. We enable customers to truly harness the abilities of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments.

No recovery solution is complete without the whole package DataBridge Sites brings together: Professional Engineering, Powerful Analytics, and Orchestration and Automation.

• Professional Engineering starts adding value from day one with in-depth solutions that fit your needs to your workload and not some piece of a big box solution.
• Powerful Analytics keep costs and resource utilization in check, giving valuable insight into sizing and scaling to plan for the future and enabling the delivery of data-driven results.
• Orchestration and Automation are customized to create a smart recovery, saving you from any unnecessary downtime. And smart recovery allows you to not only recover but also migrate whole solutions at once, creating consistency where there was once was a piecemeal approach.

We offer Internet transit services that provide external connectivity to our cloud services and that can be a great solution for primary connectivity to your colocation equipment.

They can also provide an out-of-band solution for our customers that prefer direct connectivity through one of our carrier partners.

Each location offers:

• 2+ carrier-diverse and redundant entrance 10 Gig transit
• • DataBridge Sites-provided IPv4 and IPv6 address space
  • Client-provided address space (BYOA)
  • BGP peering with client or static routing
  • Dual connectivity for diversity and fault tolerance using either VRRP (active/standby) or active/active
  • Higher speeds can be supported on a case-by-case basis

• Local direct connectivity between your colocated equipment and any services you have hosted in our cloud for hybrid services
• VPN access into your hosted  cloud services
• Our cloud environments use dedicated 10 Gig private links between sites that allow high-volume data transfer between environments for disaster recovery synchronization and offsite backup
  • Aurora to Silver Spring
• In-building Wi-Fi guest networks available for customer use while working on-site
• Cross connects are available to connect customers to various on-net carriers via our meet-me rooms

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