Data Centre

Centre for Development Of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Noida a scientific society under Ministry of Communications and information technology Govt. of India was established with the mandate to undertake and promote state-of-the-art, scientific research and development in electronics and to design and develop electronics equipment’s and systems for the growth of electronics industry. C-DAC lays emphasis on translating the goals of Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. of India, to bring fruits of IT to every walk of life and enhance the competitiveness of electronics industry.

An IDC is a specialized location where rack space is rented out to corporates to host their servers. The main advantages this offers over a corporate maintaining its own server/s and other equipments are:

C-DAC Data center leads the industry for physical security, power availability, infrastructure flexibility and customer support, exceeding the standards set by global Internet brands. This means larger facilities, all the top networks, robust power architecture, unrivaled security and more options than any traditional data center facility. The details of the infrastructure for collocating and opting for hosting solutions inside C-DAC Data center include.

C-DAC Hosting Services take care of all your Internet needs in a safe, secure and fully supported environment that keeps your business application up and running on a 24 x 7 basis. The infrastructure, from Cisco, Juniper, HP, Trend Micro IBM, EMC and other IT giants, ensures that there is no single point of failure, thus providing the highest level of availability. In addition, stringent security measures like Intrusion Detection, firewalls, etc, provide a high-security environment.

C-DAC Managed Hosting owns data center located at Anusandhan Bhawan Sector-62 Noida, C-DAC data center is engineered to the highest levels, with extensive systems to address security and network redundancy, enabling C-DAC to offer 100% infrastructure availability.

Access to data center is restricted by two-factor authentication including Biometric hand scanners. C-DAC data center is physically isolated from everyone except level three Engineers & technicians. Public access is strictly forbidden. All entrances and common areas are monitored 24x7.

Our data centers' HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) systems are redundant to ensure that even in the event of an entire HVAC system failure - there is a duplicate system on standby to take over. All air is circulated and filtered every 90 seconds to remove dust and contaminants. An advanced fire-suppression system is in place to prevent any fire from spreading - in the unlikely event that one could start all cables to servers and routing equipment are securely tied down and cable racks suspended from the ceiling provide dual routes for all cables.

C-DAC data center is designed to run uninterrupted even in the unlikely event of a total power outage. All servers are fed with conditioned UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) power that will run if utility power fails. The UPS power subsystem is redundant with instantaneous fail over in case the primary UPS fails. In the event of an extended power outage, on-site diesel generators can run indefinitely. Generators are regularly tested to ensure functionality in the event of an emergency.

We use only fully redundant, enterprise-class routing equipment housed in its own secure; core routing room is fed with its own redundant power supply. Our fiber carriers enter the facilities at disparate access points to ensure that there is no service failure, even in the unlikely event of a fiber cut.

We have implemented various technologies to improve the reliability and maximize the uptime of our network. The first of these technologies is BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) routing. BGP routing ensures that data coming into our network and data leaving our network (WAN traffic) is sent via the shortest, most efficient path possible. BGP also instantly re-routes WAN traffic in the event of an uplink failure to provide uninterrupted access to servers hosted by C-DAC. Our network also runs EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol) and HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol) which dynamically re-route internal (LAN) traffic in the event of a Network Hardware or link failure

At C-DAC, we realize that a data center is more than hardware and software. That's why we employ certified networking and security team with years of experience in managing and monitoring enterprise-level networks. Our certified C-DAC network technicians are trained to the highest standards to ensure that we are able to meet our 100% infrastructure availability guarantee.

The C-DAC network has been engineered from the ground up to accommodate the high-availability demands of our customers' mission-critical Web applications. Our Cisco-powered, Zero-Downtime Network has unique self-healing attributes that allow us to deliver on our 100% infrastructure availability. C-DAC doesn’t rely on any single connectivity provider. Instead, we employ a multi-provider strategy. This offers benefits over simply partnering with one network carrier. Working with multiple network carriers creates natural redundancy in our network architecture and ensures that packets can leave our network from multiple points. Additionally, if one or more providers experience congestion or downtime, traffic can be rerouted through other network partners until the issue is solved

Beyond simply providing redundancy in case a particular provider experiences downtime, our networking technology allows our network operations team to actively probe the public Internet for packet loss and latency and automatically reroutes traffic around these areas. This ensures that traffic leaving the C-DAC network is not bound for a part of the public Internet that is heavily congested.

Locating servers and networking operations in C-DAC collocation areas provides the highest level of security and optimal operating conditions for mission-critical Internet operations. All cabinet locations are engineered with direct access to the data distribution system to allow diverse interconnections at any speed.

By constantly monitoring logs on servers and other devices, we provide detailed reporting on all security incidents, threats, patches and vulnerabilities

We collect and report comprehensive, real-time bandwidth information that includes real-time usage, historical data and trending analysis for external and internal bandwidth insight

To ensure optimum performance, we provide reporting on CPU, memory and disk space utilization along with other server variables.

Detailed backup procedures are needed to ensure the integrity of Web sites, data and applications. We provide comprehensive backup services, including reports on storage use, successful data transfers and other backup variables.

We monitor all routers, switches and connectivity to ensure the integrity of our data centers and all customer operations. We also analyze the network backbone, bandwidth providers and the overall health of the Internet.

We monitor the status and efficiency of all HVAC, power generation, security, management and support systems. We also track the health of servers, firewalls, load-balancers and other platform components. Automated monitoring technologies provide alerts in the event of data center or device failures.

We employ sophisticated systems to capture data that reports on the health of your application and database. We then view these metrics to optimize performance, availability and storage performance. (This facility is provided only for the applications hosted on our servers and not for the collocated servers )

Our customers rely on us to measure a number of other important infrastructure variables. A customized monitoring program can be configured to track and document bandwidth utilization, security incidents, load balancing and other Web activities.