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1 Allegheny Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Pittsburgh - Nova Place

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Data Center Highlights

Expedient’s Pittsburgh data center at Nova Place offers more than 50,000 sq. ft. of total space, redundant electric utility power feeds, 4 auto-cutover diesel generators, multiple cooling systems, advanced fire suppression, and a carrier-neutral telecommunications infrastructure.

Strategic Location

Expedient’s Nova Place data center sits atop the largest telecommunications exchange in the Greater Pittsburgh region, enabling efficient, low-latency interconnectivity with various carrier networks and ISPs.

Room for Growth

To keep pace with surging demand for its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solutions, Expedient expanded its Nova Place data center footprint in 2017, bringing the total amount of 18-inch raised floor space to 26,000 square feet.

Pittsburgh - Nova Place
Technical Specs

Data Center Specifications

26,500 SQFT Total Building
16,000 SQFT Data Center
18" Raised Floor

Power Plant

Dual 2.5 MW Diverse Utility Feeds
Single 2.5 MW Transformers

Generators

Two - 2,000 kW Caterpillar Diesel Generators
7,000 Gallons of Fuel on Site
24 - Hour Runtime without refueling

HVAC

20 Glycol - Common Loop, Chilled Water Loop
435 Total Tons of Cooling
N+1 Redundancy
ICOM Control for Intelligent Cooling Management

UPS Capacity

Two 1,000 kW UPS Systems
2,000 kVA Total UPS Capacity
2N Redundancy
Integrated ALBER Battery Monitoring

IT Compliance

Service Organization Control (SOC) 1 & 2 Reports
Health Information Trust (HITRUST) Alliance Common Security Framework (CSF) Validation
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Attestation of Compliance
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Attestation for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Security, Trust, Assurance, and Risk (STAR) Registration

Multi-Tiered Security System

Biometric & Electronic Employee Photo ID Card Access Control
Escorted Visitor Access Management
Door Sensors
Video Camera Surveillance
Lockable Cabinets and Cages

Operations Support Center (OSC)

24x7x365 On-Site Staff
Remote Hands (Break/Fix)
Common Operational Systems Supporting All Locations
Portal

Monitoring Systems

Facility Electrical and Mechanical
Compute and Storage
Components of Networking
Ports and Services
Event Aggregation with IBM Netcool

Fire Detection and Suppression

Thermal & Particulate Fire Detection
FE-25 Clean Agent Gaseous Fire Suppression
Dry Pipe Double Interlocked Sprinkler System

Telecommunications

Fully Redundant 100 Gb/s Ring Between Data Centers
Carrier Neutral
Fiber Providers
Comcast
Verizon
CenturyLink
Crown Castle
Windstream
Zayo
DQE
Consolidated
Lumos
AT&T LNS

Explore Our Points of Delivery

Cloud and Colocation
Availability Zones

Arizona

Phoenix

Indiana

Indianapolis

Maryland

Baltimore - Owings Mills Baltimore - Tidepoint

Massachusetts

Boston

Ohio

Cleveland - 151 NEO Cleveland - 152 NEO Columbus - Dublin Columbus - Upper Arlington

Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh - Green Tree Pittsburgh - Nova Place

Tennessee

Memphis

Cloud On-Ramp

To provide clients with the flexibility that their multi- and hybrid-cloud environments demand, Expedient provides direct connections via network peering points with multi-cloud hubs across the country.

Ashburn, VA
Baltimore, MD
Chicago, IL
Cleveland, OH
San Jose, CA