Annual
Report
2021
Report
2021
The KKB Anadolu Data Center, which KKB has built on an area of 43,000 m2 in Ankara, was commissioned at the end of 2016 when the completion work was completed.
In December 2016, Ziraat Bank started to relocate its systems and use the KKB Anadolu Data Center.
In April 2017, Yapı Kredi Bank completed the relocation of its systems and started to use the KKB Anadolu Data Center.
On 13 October 2019, KKB conducted its business continuity test studies which it undertakes every year and covers the capability to provide services from the Emergency Center. In this effort, all KKB and Risk Center services were provided via the KKB Anadolu Data Center for one day. All services were relocated to the KKB İstanbul Data Center at the end of the day and continued to be provided from there.
In September 2019, Garanti Bank completed system relocation and started using the KKB Anadolu Data Center. As of November 2019, in addition to the existing two system rooms, two more system rooms with the same features became operational. Thus, four system rooms, spanning an area of 650 m2, are now in service, with the capacity of the KKB Anadolu Data Center increasing from 400 to 800 cabins.
In December 2019, VakıfBank started the process of moving to the new system room in order to use the KKB Anadolu Data Center. The process was completed and the KKB Anadolu Data Center was brought into use in 2020.
Işbank, Şekerbank and Halkbank completed system relocations, with Işbank starting to use the KKB Anadolu Data Center in March, Şekerbank in April and Halkbank in September 2020.
In order use the KKB Anadolu Data Center in their active-active architecture through the newly opened system rooms, Garanti Bank and VakıfBank increased the number of cabins where they receive services in December 2020 and January 2021 respectively.
As of May 2021, two new system rooms were completed in the KKB Anadolu Data Center within the scope of the KKB Financial Cloud Project and the system rooms requirement infrastructure was prepared for the KKB Financial Cloud Project.
In September 2021, Akbank completed the installation of a new system room within the scope of cabin rental needs and started to use the KKB Anadolu Data Center, initially from two different rooms for the Akbank system relocations.
The capacity of the KKB Anadolu Data Center was increased from 800 to 1,000 cabins in December 2021 with the additional system rooms added to the existing system rooms.
The KKB Anadolu Data Center reached its maximum capacity following a surge in demand from banks which are currently served and need to be served. KKB senior management team accordingly started to conduct new assessments to meet the increase in demand.
The KKB Anadolu Data Center, which primarily meets the backup and main data center service needs of banks, also provides important infrastructure as a data center where infrastructure costs will be shared in the finance sector and operational applications will be centralized. KKB, which offers the most advanced technologies to Turkey’s financial institutions, aims to provide efficiency in technology investments by offering the services of cloud technologies platform, which will be established in accordance with financial regulations, primarily for the finance sector and later for all sectors.
The KKB Anadolu Data Center consists of a data center, a support building and a customer operation center building, and is designed to expand as an additional two data centers and a support building. The KKB Anadolu Data Center, which is the first data center in Turkey to be eligible for the “LEED Platinum” Green Building Certificate, which is considered as the ultimate level of environmental protection standard, has managed to become one of the five data centers with this title in the world.
The KKB Anadolu Data Center has been deemed to be in compliance with the LEED Certificate, having been established as a Green building since the beginning of the construction work, and the annual carbon footprint of KKB has been determined as approximately 10,390 tonnes CO2 eq, according to the project, which was carried out with the life cycle analysis method, CCaLC software and CML2001 method and the use of the Ecoinvent database. Approximately 88% of the determined annual carbon footprint originates from the activities of the KKB Anadolu Data Center, being approximately 23% higher than the carbon footprint of an average data center in the USA. Work continues on the project to provide 10% of the electricity used in the KKB Anadolu Data Center from solar energy (photovoltaic), which will provide a significant contribution towards reducing the level of carbon emissions. In addition, the AHU cooling system, which is used by KKB and utilizes outdoor air for cooling, provides an 11.3% reduction in carbon emissions when compared to the DX type air conditioning units which are frequently used in the sector; it has been determined that the Dynamic UPS-DRUPS (UBTD+) system used for uninterrupted power supply provides a 4.6% reduction in carbon emissions compared to other static UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) systems used in the industry. As a result, KKB stands out as a successful institution in terms of sustainability, having reduced its carbon emissions by approximately 16% through the use of modern technologies. The total annual water footprint in KKB’s Istanbul offices and the KKB Anadolu Data Center has been calculated as 5,744 tonnes, with the annual consumption limited to just 700 tonnes thanks to environmentally friendly applications, such as rainwater collection and irrigation using collected rainwater, currently in the design stage at the KKB Anadolu Data Center. Although there are examples of scientific studies in literature for carbon and water footprint measurement carried out by the institution for the KKB Anadolu Data Center, it has the quality of being a reference for studies to be conducted in related fields. These studies will continue to be measured annually and the institution aims to decrease these consumption values by 5% in 2022.
In addition to LEED Platinum, KKB also obtained the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System and the TIER IV Certificate, which is a high availability standard.
In that context, KKB also holds ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management System certification, confirming that the quality of all processes at KKB are in accordance with this international management system standard, minimizing the possibility of interruption to the services provided and ensuring service continuity in a short period of time in case of an interruption. In addition, KKB holds the ISO 27001 Information Security Management System certification. Accordingly, all processes at KKB are carried out in accordance with this global management system standard, providing the highest level of confidentiality, uniformity and accessibility in case of a need for all information which KKB is responsible for keeping. The KKB Anadolu Data Center has also certified that the operation, inputs and outputs of the service management processes are managed with a consistent and constantly evolving management system approach, having obtained the ISO 20000-1 Information Technologies Service Management Systems Certificate in 2018.
The KKB Anadolu Data Center is audited every year by independent audit institutions authorized by the BRSA and provides the necessary assurance regarding the control environment of the data center by sharing the independent audit report prepared in the ISAE 3402 Type 2 Report format, published at the end of the audit, with its customers and auditors. This assurance serves to ease the burden of the KKB Anadolu Data Center users and auditors both in terms of labor and time.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS OF THE KKB ANADOLU DATA CENTER
The KKB Anadolu Data Center, which was designed and launched for KKB customers to securely protect, store and manage their data, is equipped with the latest technological infrastructure available.
During the design phase of the KKB Anadolu Data Center, the most sensitive issues were the creation of a back-up infrastructure providing customers seamless, fast, and continuous accessibility as well as data security. Its Energy and Cooling infrastructure holds the certificate of Uptime Institute Tier IV design (TCCD). In November 2019, scenario tests by the Uptime Institute were completed and the Tier IV Facility (TCCF) certification process was initiated. In addition to advanced electricity infrastructure, the Center features ventilation systems provide precise climate control and cooling and humidity control on a 24/7 basis in the event of any malfunction. The hardware used in the Center, where energy and data cabling is placed above the cabinets, provides high-speed support to customers.
FAST AND CONTINUOUS ACCESSIBILITY
Built in the low earthquake risk zone in compliance with earthquake regulations and protected against lightning hazards, maximum attention is paid to the physical security of the Center. There are different levels of biometric and classical safety points in the campus area where only authorized staff may enter. Access to the system room is granted with an iris scan through the iris reader. The building and infrastructure management at the KKB Anadolu Data Center is carried out on a 24/7 basis without interruption using state of the art automation and monitoring systems.
