Our Facilities – Maximum Reliability, Redundancy and Connectivity

With Class "A" data center infrastructure, Blue Hill's world-class data centers reside in Pearl River, NY at the Blue Hill Plaza complex, a 1.2 million square foot facility, and Branchburg, NJ, both specifically designed and constructed to house and run multiple platforms in a high-availability environment. 

The facilities offer fault tolerant, state-of-the-art physical components and redundant network offerings.  Features include:

• 24/7/365 multi-tiered security monitoring, including guard station, patrol, video surveillance, and controlled card-key access
• Redundant connectivity direct to the Northeast power grid via dual diverse paths
• Dual redundant feeds provide power at 69KV and automatically transfer between feeds
• Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) control system and standby diesel power generation
• Redundant Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) system and monitoring
• Redundant power distribution panels
• Verizon has automatic, dual redundant communications access from two distinct locations into the Blue Hill complex
• Connectivity served by multple ISP carriers, including Optimum Lightpath, Verizon, and Lightower Fiber Networks
• Unlimited bandwidth capabilities
• Lightpath point-to-point Metro Ethernet connectivity
• Fully redundant BGP provides automatic dual and redundant paths via IP
• Advanced environmental controls, monitoring and automatic notification
• 3600 tons of Glycol cooling capacity (n+1)
• Fireproof construction and monitoring

For those customers located in the New York Tri-State area, Lightpath’s network provides direct connectivity from Blue Hill’s 50,000 square foot facility in Pearl River, NY to those locations on the network. The network provides reliable, high-speed connectivity delivered via fiber optics that run directly to our clients’ business locations.

Blue Hill's facilities have built-in redundancy for added operational reliability, including redundant backup power with UPS and expandable standby diesel generation; environmental controls, including multiple air handling units with n+1 temperature and humidity systems and pre-action fire protection systems; and high-level security controls, including automatic alarm notifications and advanced VPN IP security. 

SAS 70 Type II Audited and Approved
Blue Hill is fully compliant with supporting customer Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA requirements. Blue Hill’s data center controls, operational policies and procedures, and outsourcing activities are designed and deployed to satisfy necessary control objectives, confirming our clients are receiving the highest quality IT outsourcing services.

Certified PCI Compliant
Blue Hill’s policies, procedures, and technical systems that store, process and/or transmit cardholder data have satisfactorily met the requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Certified EU Safe Harbor Compliant
Blue Hill complies with the EU Safe Harbor privacy policy framework as set forth by the Department of Commerce regarding information privacy practices for the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.