Safe Harbor
Disaster Recovery Facility
OSHEAN, working through its membership in NEREN (Northeast Research and Education Network) has collaborated with affiliates in Connecticut and Massachusetts to provide transport to an offsite, telecommunications, alternative data center in Springfield, MA.
Dubbed Safe Harbor, this facility offers secure access to rack, power and pipe, housing of web and email servers and allows members to maintain their presence on the Internet in the case of a disaster or emergency at their main site. Through the power of a high speed independent Internet network, connectivity may be utlized to not only communicate with people outside an immediate affected area, but also allow replication of applications crucial.