Alpha Facility

The StratITsphere Alpha facility is a Tier IV design located 25 miles northwest of downtown Houston. StratITsphere Alpha provides a full suite of data center services and business continuity solutions to its customers. The facility is located outside the 500 year flood zone and off of any major thoroughfare. This data center is a newly designed, state of the art facility and is being built with the most recently recognized best practices known within the data center world. All of the redundancy our customers require is built into the design.

The data center’s infrastructure is built on a 2N design with a 100% SLA on availability. A 24x7 manned security presence and video surveillance is maintained as well as a 24x7 manned Operations Control Center, providing our customers with access to real time information and communications. The highly secured vault space is accessed through a series of security mechanisms; a secured man trap is located at the front desk, then card readers are used to gain access into shared office space areas and lobby, and then ultimately, biometric readers will provide access to the vault space.

StratITsphere Alpha is a 100,000 square foot facility with 60,000 square feet reserved for expansion. Tier IV power and cooling can be expanded throughout the entire facility. Managed Internet Service capacity is delivered in a shared or dedicated capacity, and can be expanded as necessary to meet customer demands.

Fire suppression is achieved through a dry-pipe, cross-zoned, pre-action design with the addition of a VESDA particulate matter sensor system. Each individual vault has its own isolated control zone which allows for the isolation of events and prevents one customer’s issue from affecting another.