Visa creates the most impenetrable new data center in history

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Visa has taken strong security measures at the newly opened data Center (OCE) on the east coast of the United States and is the largest, most advanced and safest data center in visa history. It is said that Visa's new "bunker" can withstand tornadoes and large earthquakes, the backup power can be in the case of power supply for up to 9 days of electricity, each air-conditioning, battery server mainframe backup, the data center of the diesel engine generated electricity enough to supply 25,000 U.S. households. That sounds 2012. But the uproar in America's media is also about the moat that surrounds the visa's new data center.

"USA Today" compares Visa's new data center to "castle", while Wired magazine reveals a hairpin bend on the road to the Visa data center, and any car that travels more than 50 miles an hour will fly into a drainage pond (moat).

The CIO's columnist, Von Hoffman, praised the idea of a moat in the visa data center, but Hoffman also pointed out that since the invention of the aircraft, the Moat has lost its defensive function.

In addition to hairpin bends and moat, any uninvited intruder who tries to break into the visa data center will also face the ultimate killer who is responsible for making the scene in the movie Death Race: The hydraulic automatic lift that lurks under the road, ready to jump out to "greet" an illegal vehicle that travels more than 50 miles an hour.

These are just the external security measures for visa's new data center, and according to Fast Company, any visitor who is invited into the data center will be photographed and left with fingerprints, which are encoded and stored in the visitor's badge. The first step into the data center is to go through a trap, and the iron gates at both ends of the tunnel will be completely closed, and you will need to positively the badge and finger on the scanner.

"Most people think that visa is a financial institution and that the network is our brand life," says Rick Knight, director of the Visa Global system operations and engineering. Visa's east Coast data center handles 150 million transactions a day. You know, hackers are getting smarter today, while user data is already the most popular hard currency on the internet's black market. The best way to protect visa data is to hide it in a fortified fortress. Knight also revealed that the new data center has been redesigned to avoid a repeat of the 2005 Visa Network's eight-minute paralysis due to overload.

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