The facilities have a storage capacity of more than 5 Petabytes
Santander Brasil inaugurated, on June 23, the Campinas Data Center (SP). Built on an 800 thousand square meter plot, with a total investment of R$ 1.1 billion, the new complex concentrates all the Bank's data processing and storage, in addition to ensuring: more speed in operations; storage security; stability for systems; infrastructure to serve more customers, and agility for the adoption of technologies to come.
“We are very proud because, in addition to being highly innovative and sustainable, the Data Center takes Santander Brasil to a new level in technological resources”, says Jesús Zabalza, president of Santander Brasil. "The structure guarantees full capacity to support the commercial expansion that we started and allows us to accelerate growth plans even more."
The new Data Center triples the physical space of the facilities that house the equipment responsible for the processing and storage of Santander data. Today, the facilities have a storage capacity of more than 5 Petabytes (equivalent to 5 million Gigabytes) in virtualized Storage, and the mainframe - the Bank's main computer - can carry out, on average, 210 million transactions per day. The numbers are more than sufficient to meet the institution's current needs.
The complex may also function, in the future, as a Grupo Santander command center for Latin American units, as it has technological resources and the capacity to monitor all the branches and servers that the institution has in the region.
Santander Data Center was the pioneer in Latin America to receive the TIER IV certification, which recognizes the infrastructure and security conditions of the project and facilities. Only 12 others in the world have this seal, which requires a data processing center to take the concepts of modularity, autonomy and regeneration to the extreme. That is, it is necessary that the systems are segregated, so that eventual problems in one of them do not affect the others; can remain in operation even if there is a fall in the power grid, and still have the ability to continue operating, without the need for human intervention, should any unforeseen event require the activation of backup equipment.
A TIER IV Data Center needs to guarantee 99.995% availability of stored data. A simple calculation reveals that the maximum allowed downtime in a year would be less than 24 minutes. As, in practice, the complex comprises two identical data centers, this interval is statistically reduced to 79 milliseconds per year.
The construction also followed the semi-buried bunker model, which involves wrapping the facilities with a layer of earth (slope), in order to reduce the impact in the event of vehicle collisions, and with reinforced walls and slabs, capable of supporting the weight of the upper floors in case of collapse.
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