Groningen

Rackspace

The Datacenter in Groningen offers larger racks, equipped for increasingly stiff and thicker cabling. They are 47HE (220 x 80 x 120 cm). The racks are standard equipped with SmartACCESS, which gives you control and insight into who has access. More about colocation possibilities.

We also have a separate room in our data center to receive our customers’ newly delivered equipment. In this staging area, customers can unpack and prepare this equipment for installation in the data center. This prevents paper and cardboard from getting onto the data floor leading to unnecessary dust particles.

Power supply

The power supply consists of two separate feeds as standard and has the option of four separate feeds per two racks. Power is protected with 16 or 32 amp fuses and supplied single phase as standard. Three phase (400 volts) can also be supplied upon request.

Sustainable

Cooling takes place through low speed ventilation. This allows us to move air economically and efficiently. This method is up to 30% more efficient than conventional data center cooling. In addition, WarmteStad uses our residual heat to heat homes and offices.

Security

d’ROOT has BORG 4 security, designed, implemented and executed by Securitas (including 24/7 NOC). Access procedures are ISO 27001 certified, with pass and biometric identification (iris scan).

Fire Safety

The data center uses a water mist fire suppression system. This forms very fine water droplets with powerful cooling power and a large response surface. This system allows us to extinguish locally and keep other data rooms available as much as possible.

Hydrogen

Starting in 2022, we will use sustainably generated hydrogen for our power supply. Redundant power will then come from the regular grid, allowing us to make significant savings and eventually phase out emergency diesel generators.

Datacenter of today and the future

d ‘ROOT offers everything you would expect from a modern data center, and more. For the safety of your equipment, we continuously monitor our data rooms for smoke particles, dust and humidity. By keeping humidity between 30 and 60%, we prevent corrosion and premature aging of your servers.

All necessary factors such as power, access and cooling are redundant. This allows us to guarantee an uptime of 99.982% (Tier III). We have ISO 27001, NEN 7510, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification and an ISAE 3402 type II statement.

We work together with regional data centers to secure your backups and make fallback possible. With this we relieve you, under one contract, of connectivity and colocation at multiple locations, so that your environment is mirrored. In the event of a disaster, you can immediately relocate within the Netherlands to another geographical location in order to restart your processes as quickly as possible.

As the data center of the future, we are working on innovative sustainable solutions. In addition to energy supply using hydrogen, we think along with you about efficient power consumption of your equipment and make it possible to cool it with oil. This is considerably more sustainable than cooling with tap water and also produces higher residual heat, which we pass on to WarmteStad Groningen for heating homes and offices. Our building is literally and figuratively green.

Regional function

The Data Competence Center d’ROOT, located on the Zernike Campus Groningen, is data center and Datalab in one. Of the total 5,000 m2 area, about half is for the data floor. 1,000 m2 is for the technical areas, 1,500 m2 for offices and the Datalab.

Bytesnet uses the Datalab itself for innovations in all fields and also makes the space, resources and functionalities available to educational and research institutions, the healthcare sector and SMEs for multidisciplinary innovations. Both for ICT innovations such as big data, eHealth, SME SMARTfactory and Internet of Things, but also in the field of general technology such as energy transition, electricity, cooling and security. You can read more about initiatives that have already emerged in our Datalab on the Sustainability page.