Telefónica‘s Alcalá Data Center in Spain which as just celebrated its first anniversary, has become Europe’s largest datacentre and the world’s third biggest and has obtained TIER IV Gold certification. The certification confirms that the most exacting requirements have been met as regards Uptime Institute standards; this ensures the centre’s operational sustainability and attests to its high level of infrastructure availability.
Telefonica has added a new demonstration area which specializes in cloud services to the centre. This is the Alcalá Innovation Center, where companies, institutions and partners can see the chief technology solutions which Telefónica delivers to its customers to enhance their business processes.
The facility is located in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, and is the cornerstone of Telefónica’s Data Center consolidation strategy, as well as one of the company’s four new generation strategic datacentres globally, which will act as hubs for a small number of satellite datacentres that will support local services.
All of Telefónica’s datacentres will be inter-connected via a corporate global network, all supervised and operated under one roof. This will allow Telefónica to optimize infrastructure use, enhance virtualization levels, phase out obsolete equipment and standardize the infrastructure’s operating model in step with the company’s global objectives.
UK, Spanish and German services are being established at the Alcalá Data Center in addition to global processes, thereby making inroads into improving the levels of quality, simplification and standardisation, which are key to Grupo Telefónica’s transformation.
