Data Centers
SAS 70 Type II Compliant
As a stand alone, single tenant building, the CyrusOne Enterprise Data Center (EDC) protects your systems from many natural and man-made causes of outages. Each component of the EDC is designed to ensure maximum availability in all conditions and we support that belief by offering the industry’s highest availability SLA.

In addition to the power, security, connectivity and NOCC of our facility there are several additional reasons why we are willing to guarantee availability within our facility:

Stand alone, Single Tenant Building

• Control of the entire building and its perimeter
• Enhanced security
• Control of activity in and around mission critical environment

Weather Resistant Facility

• Hurricane resistant roof
• Hurricane shutters
• 10” thick, reinforced concrete walls
• 3’ high concrete slab, 2’ high raised floors providing a net 5’ of clearance from street level
• Located 65’ above sea level, one of the highest in the Houston area
• Constructed on a 24” foundation with another 24” of raised flooring
• Outside the FEMA 500-year flood plain

Fire Suppression
CyrusOne's fire detection and suppression system (FDS) in critical areas is a state of the art dry-pipe, dual interlock pre-action system. The pre-action dual interlock dry pipe system has become the industry standard. In general this means that no water is introduced to the sprinkler pipes until one of two scenarios takes place. One, at least two smoke detectors in same zone detect heat or smoke or two, the sprinkler pipe loses pressure and at least one smoke detector goes into alarm. Therefore, losing a sprinkler head alone will not introduce water to the piping system.

Fire Detection
The Cheetah System is a microprocessor-based analog addressable system ideally suited for fire alarm, clean agent suppression, carbon dioxide suppression, and sprinkler/pre-action fire detection and control systems. The base system consists of a controller board with two signaling line circuits capable of supporting a total of 254 addressable analog points. Up to 240 software zones can be used to define the operating correlation between initiating devices and the control functions. The Cheetah control panel is configured to communicate directly with our VESDA detectors via a High Level Interface (HLI). The HLI provides bi-directional and fully supervised communication between the Cheetah and the VESDA LaserPLUS system. It is important to note that the VESDA detection system will not cause the sprinkler system to activate. It only provides alarms and zone information.

The smoke detectors located throughout the facility's critical areas are designed to interact with the dry pipe sprinkler system. The valve system that controls the introduction of water to the Preaction System piping is a Victaulic Series 758 Firelock Actuated System Valve with Preaction Trim. The Series 758 is supervised with pressurized air to detect leaks in the piping and electronic signals from the smoke detectors themselves (Pneumatic/Electric Release). The valves will activate ONLY when there is a pressure loss in the sprinkler system AND the electric detection of a release event. In the event of a loss of pressure in the sprinkler system without an electric detection the valve will not actuate until a second release event is detected.

Environmental Monitoring
The ability to observe electrical characteristics, such as amperage or power factor, and the current state, such as breaker or switch position, of each component of the system is extremely important. This allows one to keep the entire system tuned for performance and health. It will allow operators or engineers to anticipate and avoid failures. It will indicate when the system should be expanded. Operators can notify customers if their circuit draws have reached a critical threshold and that new circuits should be provisioned. It also allows off-site engineers to access and diagnose events or alarms if problems arise. Monitoring is available at the gear, in the NOCC, and remote access.

The Tracer Summit system is the primary means of monitoring the facilities HVAC system. The Tracer Summit is comprised of a PC workstation with Tracer Summit for Windows® software and Building Control Units (BCU's). An operator uses the PC over the Ethernet LAN or can dial in using a modem to access and communicate with BCU's.

Tracer Summit controls the HVAC system using scheduled set-points maintaining comfort when the building is occupied and minimizing energy consumption when it is not. The data center floor temperature is set to a constant temperature and humidity in line with our service level agreements. Additionally, alarms are programmed to page support personnel. Depending on the severity of the alarm, certain events activate a paging program that alerts all Facilities personnel.