Data Center classifications

Supporting: Campus computing, system hosting, and high performance computing

Executive summary

Indiana University Enterprise Data Centers serve campus systems, applications, and equipment. The Enterprise Data Centers are comprised of two physical locations on the IUB and IUPUI campuses as well as cloud-based providers. Service offerings include hosting options supporting physical equipment, virtual servers, cloud offerings, and hybrid solutions. Enterprise application and server hosting locations will be assessed based on risk to determine the optimal hosting location.

The enterprise environment will house host systems which may fall under Federal or other data protection requirements. This may include but is not limited to: FERPA, PCI, HIPAA, etc.

All the enterprise spaces are serviced by UPS systems, backup generators, backup cooling, and smoke/fire detection.

Table 1: Services availability matrix

Availability classification	System type	System characteristics	Example systems	System requirements	Target facility
Essential/ Critical	Life safety, critical business systems	Systems architected with full redundancy in design in all layers of the system (database, application, web, interfaces, storage)	Emergency and main university website, authentication services, email, accounting and financial applications, Tier 0 and Tier 1 services	Redundant power Redundant network UPS backup power Generator backup	EP IUPUI
Sensitive	Services in direct support of day to day function of the institution and its mission	Systems architected with some redundancy, but would not have an adverse impact if down for 4-8 hours	Human Resource system, Student Information System, Electronic Research Administration	Redundant power Redundant network UPS backup power Generator backup	EP IUPUI
Tolerant	Non-critical	No redundancy in design; planned or reasonable downtimes do not have an adverse business impact	Some research systems; departmental file shares and some departmental server hosting	Single power source Single network feed UPS	RP

Table 2: System regulatory matrix

Regulatory classification	System type	Example systems	System requirements	Target facility
Highly regulated	Federal/state law compliance (PCI, FISMA, HIPAA)	Patient records, student records, financial records, including SSN	Controlled access Biometric hand scanners Secure VPN for data access Surveillance system	EP IUPUI Cloud
Regulated	Institutional regulations and data sensitivity	Research system records, accounting records, employee evaluations, email records	Controlled access Biometric hand scanners Surveillance system	EP IUPUI RP Cloud
Not regulated	Systems that do not contain sensitive or regulated data	Purely computational resources, public websites, public records	Controlled access Biometric hand scanners	EP IUPUI RP Cloud

Note:

Cloud servers and colocation alternatives will be considered as campus agreements are negotiated.

Table 3: Physical resources

	IUPUI	EP	RP
Space	8400 sq. ft.	11000 sq. ft.	11000 sq. ft.
Power	475 kW	540 kW	2.2 MW
Designed power/Cabinet	5 kW	5 kW	Range from 5-40 kW
UPS /flywheel	Battery/flywheel	Flywheel	Battery/flywheel
Generator	Yes	Yes	Yes (500kW)
Rating	<Tier 2	<Tier 3	>Tier 1
Cooling	Traditional computer room air handlers	Traditional computer room air handlers	Traditional computer room air handlers; chilled water to the rack
Regulatory	Highly regulated	Highly regulated	Regulated

Note:

Each space is listed by the highest regulatory support provided. Lower requirement systems/data may be housed in higher rated spaces dependent on available resources.

Table 4: Data Center physical space tiering per ANSI/TIA-942 telecommunications infrastructure standard for Data Centers

Tier level	Requirements	Location
1	Non-redundant capacity components, cooling and electrical Basic site infrastructure with expected availability of 99.671%	RP
2	Meets or exceeds all Tier 1 requirements Redundant site infrastructure capacity components with expected availability of 99.741%	IUPUI
3	Meets or exceeds all Tier 1 and Tier 2 requirements Multiple independent distribution paths serving the IT equipment All IT equipment must be dual-powered and fully compatible with the topology of a site's architecture Concurrently maintainable site infrastructure with expected availability of 99.982%	EP
4	Meets or exceeds all Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 requirements All cooling equipment is independently dual-powered, including chillers and heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems Fault-tolerant site infrastructure with electrical power storage and distribution facilities with expected availability of 99.995%	Cloud

TIA-942 certified Data Centers.