Here's how to keep your data safe no matter what Mother Nature—or human nature—dishes out

Red Anvil’s state-of-the-art facilities meet or exceed industry standards for building security and resilience. And with two physical locations in separate geographic regions—Milwaukee and Chicago—you can rest easy that a natural disaster in one area won’t compromise the security of your data.

Construction and Building Resilience

• The building exterior is skinned with 10 gauge steel studs and 1/2 inch concrete board with a full trowel membrane.  Layered on that is 3 inches of Styrofoam, a 3/8 inch trowel of concrete (in mesh) and an additional membrane
• The exterior wall insulation rating is R40
• All windows are Thermo-pane Low-E with thermal gas
• Multi-zoned HVAC and lighting with Delta System-enabled controls
• Two-factor electromagnetic fob and biometric (fingerprint) scanning security with full access logging

Wind Rating

F3 (can withstand sustained 110 mph winds)

Weight Tolerances

The first floor of the building was designed and built to allow heavy machinery to operate within it.  Therefore, there is not a basement and the base flooring is 8 inches of concrete.

• 1st floor NOC load tolerance:  576,000 lbs/sq ft
• 2nd floor NOC load tolerance:  200 lbs/sq ft

Benefits of leveraging a professionally managed data center:

• Increased bandwidth with lower costs
• Greater network and power redundancy
• Improved physical security and video surveillance
• Access to 24/7 on demand technical support
• Proactive service monitoring and SMS or email notifications
• Equipment is located in an environmentally controlled space with dry fire suppression
• Uptime guarantees backed by an SLA

Why host in Milwaukee?

Milwaukee is a large, well connected urban center yet it has little or no strategic value as a target for terrorism.

In a survey of the 50 largest US cities Milwaukee tied with Mesa Arizona as the least likely place to suffer a disaster.

Security

All entrances to Red Anvil’s facility, entrances to the data center areas, and each individual data center row is monitored 24/7 by digitally recorded video surveillance.

The data center does not adjoin any exterior walls. All visitors must be authorized for access through an enrollment process that includes generating a photo style ID badge and capturing finger print biometric information. Visiting clients are required to check in at the front desk to check-out their photo ID badge. Access rights and identity for visitors are then double checked and their activity is logged by the biometric controllers located on all access points to the data center.

Only an authorized set of Red Anvil personnel has access to the data center. No other individuals are allowed access without prior authorization and an appropriate escort.

Network Monitoring

Red Anvil actively monitors all aspects of our network health from both an internal and external perspective.

All of Red Anvil’s routers, switches, and firewalls have their status and running configuration actively monitored and stored in a version control system.

Red Anvil actively monitors various major network locations across the globe as well as key points of infrastructure within our upstream provider’s networks.  This makes us aware of general health of the Internet as well as the performance and health of our upstream providers.