Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s telecommunication infrastructure and information technologies company ISTTELKOM AS, collected İGDAŞ’s data within the body of İBB. In this way, the information of the servers is protected against hack attacks 24/7, by the municipality. Data Center was protected by 12 million TL IMM, which aims to save money, will also perform backups in case of various disasters.
IMM, which has increased its measures against the dangers of cyber attacks, 4.7 tons in weight 220 IT equipment and provided the transfer of 550 servers. ISTTELKOM had previously provided the data transfer of 27 IMM affiliates. İGDAS This number has increased to 28.
With the security structure of the IMM Data Center, which has the Uptime TIER III facility standard, providing services in many areas, especially in subjects such as cyber security, server and data storage; In the event of disasters such as earthquakes, fires and floods, citizens’ data will be prevented from being damaged.
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IGDAS Data Center relocation operation in numbers
- Transporting 220 IT equipment and 550 servers with a total weight of 4.7 tons
- 3,000 meters of fiber, 1,600 meters of Cat6 cable installation
- Transporting 980 fiber ports and 500 Cat6 ports
- A total distance of 398 km with 21 vehicle trips
- 233 man/day effort with 70 staff
- Trouble-free transport process with success in 80 hours
İGDAŞ General Manager Dr. Mithat Bülent Özmen said the following about the data transfer:
“With the project of moving our system rooms located in three different locations to the IMM Data Center, corporate redundancy and high-level security have been provided against disaster situations. At the same time, we aim to save 12 million TL with the efficient use of resources by preventing high-cost information technology investments and operating costs.”
Giving information about the works carried out, ISTTELKOM General Manager Nihat Narin made the following statement:
“In 2019, we increased the number of companies using data centers, which are used by only 16 subsidiaries, to 28 and the capacity utilization to 100%. We mobilized the idle IMM resources and significantly increased the productivity within the group. With the consolidated technology management of 30 İBB companies, we saved approximately 200 million TL. With the investments we have made and the measures we have taken, citizens’ data is proactively protected 24/7 against physical and cyber attacks in the IMM Data Center.”