Infrastructure, Hosting Facilities
Hosting Facility Overview
The ATG hosting facility is a tier-1 data center offering a reliable infrastructure,
fast connectivity, and 24x7 system and network monitoring. Our facility takes
advantage of the industry's most advanced power, security, network, and fire
suppression technologies, to ensure efficient and reliable operation even in
the event of a natural or man-made catastrophe.
Key Features
- Connected directly to an all-optical IP architecture over a dedicated global
fiber optic network
- Continuous power supply (CPS) flywheel generators and diesel backup generators
- Comprehensive security including monitoring, building single point of entry,
locked cages and vaults, and full-motion surveillance cameras in secure areas
- Ability to withstand natural disasters, physical and cyber security breaches,
power outages, and networking/computing failures
- Mechanical systems with multiple levels of redundancy
- State-of-the-art fire suppression
- Cooling system ensures climate temperatures do not affect computing power
- Advanced Continuous Power Supply (CPS) system protects against degraded
commercial power and interruptions
- Very Early Smoke Detection Alarm (VESDA) constantly samples the air for
dangerous particles
- Round-the-clock surveillance
Operations and Architecture Overview
The ATG hosting facility offers a state-of-the-art, fully redundant hardware
architecture with fault tolerant back-up, compression, caching, SSL accelerators,
warm failover sites, global redirection and real-time site/application monitoring.
Technology
- Robust and scalable hardware infrastructure using state-of-the-art Blade
server technology
- Proven Linux operating system and J2EE application server platform
- Clustered, redundant, and secure database environment
- Dedicated application infrastructure for each customer, with redundancy
- High-speed network infrastructure
- Low cost, low impact integration with third party systems
- Extensive Web-based user control and management tools for business users
- Service-oriented architecture design
- Pre-configured standby servers to handle peaks
- Warm site failover available as a mirrored application
- 24x7x365 on-site operations management
Security
ATG annually engages a third party to perform a security audit based on ISO
Standard 17799 review, British Standard 7799, and the PCI Data Security Standards.
Development Services
- Development sandboxes for site development and design partners
- Staging systems for pre-production testing and content review
- Rapid and automated deployment to production systems
Integration Services
- Payment gateways
- Order management systems
- Customer information and CRM systems
Operational Services
- Hosted site operations and management
- Additional application capacity on demand
- Performance, index, and search tuning
- Security roles and entitlements
