Stream Data Centers Builds Its New Data Center in Woodlands

June 28, 2012 By

Latest industry reports suggest that data center developer Stream data centers recently started construction of a private data centre in Woodlands, Texas.  This data center will be spread across 73,320 sq.ft and also be able to withstand 146-mph winds and uplift. The data center will also incorporate sustainable design practice to achieve the LEED Gold Certification.

Stream Private Data Center is expected to provide 3.375 MW of critical load with plenty of room to expand to 6.75 MW across 30,000 square feet of raised floor with all necessary conduit and pads. The facility will implement the 2N electrical /N+1 mechanical configuration which will provide dual feed power from two separate sub stations.

‘Stream data centers’ has chosen Woodlands as the location for the data center is because this location offers strict zoning and a controlled environment. The region also has zero proximity to industrial uses, rails lines and flight paths.

Stream Data Centers co-managing partner Rob Kennedy said, “The Stream Private Data Center in The Woodlands offers corporate users a wholesale data center option located within a master-planned setting.”

The new data center is designed in such a way that it can be controlled by either a single tenant or 3 fully independent private data center suites. Each data center suite delivers a significant critical load which is not only expandable but also supported by independent power and cooling infrastructure.

The new facility will be fully-commissioned and ready for occupancy 1 April, 2013.

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Digital Realty Trust Inc. Acquires 3 New Properties in London

June 27, 2012 By

One of the leading providers of data center real estate, Digital Realty Trust Inc has decided to purchase 3 properties near London for a collective amount of 715.6 million pounds. The Sentrum Portfolio will be purchased with cash, debt and a bridge loan, the San Francisco-based company said in a statement today.

Digital Realty also plans to sell 8.35 million worth of shares to help fund the last accusation plan, although they have kept mum about the identity of the seller.

The European data center market is less mature than in North America and should “sustain solid growth,” equity researcher Benchmark Co. LLC said in a December report. Four- fifths of the space in the Sentrum Portfolio is currently rented, with an average of eight years remaining on the leases, according to the statement.

“There is a significant value-add opportunity to lease the balance of the portfolio’s available space,” Scott Peterson, chief acquisitions officer for Digital Realty, said in the statement.

The portfolio is reported to include 761,000 square feet (71,000 square meters) across three data centers located in Woking, Watford and Croydon

Digital Realty, which has data centers in 31 countries, has seen its share price rise 9.9 percent this year. The company acquired a 269,000-square-foot data center in Dallas, Texas, it said on June 21.

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DataBank Holdings Spills the Beans on its New Data Center Project

June 14, 2012 By

DataBank Holdings, Ltd, a leading data center and colocation provider who also specializes in offering custom data center recently stated the details of their new data center. The facility is going to be located in north Dallas. The construction is to be completed in four phases and is going to be available to the customers by the winter 2012.

The facility will also have a dedicated power house for constant power delivery via dual 10MW utility feeds in a 2(N) configuration. Originally what was meant to be a 50,000 sq.ft data center, it has now been expanded to contain an additional 10,000 sq,ft of space.

“We could not be more pleased with the new facility’s location,” said Tim Moore, CEO of DataBank. “To construct a facility that meets DataBank standards we needed a unique site combining ultra-high power availability and a dense concentration of fiber providers. Our partners at Digital Realty were able to provide us with a unique and premium property in a stellar data center park setting.” Moore continued, “DataBank’s product is anchored on a 100% uptime availability SLA for enterprise, hosting and cloud providers that make up the bulk of our client base. Also, this location allows us to duplicate our product in North Dallas.”

“DataBank approached Digital Realty looking for a solution that would give it complete control over its business and technical operations,” said David Caron, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Management at Digital Realty. “Our Powered Base Building data center solution supported DataBank’s vision to expand its business, how, when and where it was needed.”

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QTS’s Data Center Becomes the Primary Data Center Choice for Web.Com

June 13, 2012 By

 

QTS (Quality Technology Services), charts as one of the leading providers of data center facilities and services and they recently announced that it has been selected by Web.com which is an online service provider, to take care of and manage the company’s growing data center service requirements. The terms of agreement for the current relationship are not disclosed.

 

It has been reported that eight separate data centers all in North America support web.com and its various other owned brands. With this new partnership, web.com is looking to branch out by keeping the QTS data center as their primary option and will consolidate wit h facility near the company’s Jacksonville, Florida, headquarters to retain disaster recovery capacity.

 

“As a company consistently growing both organically and via strategic acquisitions, scalability and flexibility are primary infrastructure needs,” said Jane Landon, senior vice president and chief technology officer — Web.com. “We inherited a relationship with QTS when we acquired Network Solutions and Web.com has continued to appreciate the service and performance. QTS offered us a long-term agreement that gives us the flexibility we need, and the sheer size and scope of the QTS Atlanta Metro Data Center provides us room to grow.”

 

“We’re pleased that after a thorough review of possible data center options, Web.com has determined that QTS is the best solution to handle the constantly growing requirements of its many businesses,” said Chad Williams, chief executive officer — QTS. “QTS will continue to build and develop the hardened, world-class data center space needed by today’s demanding customers. We’ll continue to provide our services at scale for growing companies like Web.com who are looking to mitigate the risk associated with forecasting their data center needs.”

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TELEHOUSE Group’s Data Center Expansion Project in Full Swing

June 12, 2012 By

 

TELEHOUSE Group ,the leading global provider of dedicated data centers, international Internet exchanges, and managed IT services, recently announced that its parent company KDDI Corporation is all set to invest approximately $140.6 million (11 billion Japanese yen) to expand its data center business in the Greater China market including China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The expansion plan includes construction of new data center in Beijing, China. This data center is set to offer all the standard TELEHOUSE services in Dec 2012. In the mean time, they are also planning to move forwards with the expansion of the colocation space in TELEHOUSE HONG KONG CCC.

 

KDDI is currently in charge of operations of four data centers, which are located in the Greater China Region, including Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. The Beijing data center will be the newest addition, with a total floor area of 67,000 square meters (m2) in the region.

 

“KDDI and TELEHOUSE America recognize Greater China as one of the most important growing markets, and leading the whole Asian economy,” comments Satoshi Adachi, VP of TELEHOUSE America. “Additionally, active entry of Japanese, European and American companies requires world quality standards with high reliability services. In response, the KDDI group will support its customers’ business expansions by providing premier data center services and a high quality global network, using TELEHOUSE as its core, backed by the service advantages KDDI has in China with CD Networks (CDN) and DMX Technology.”

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Raleigh to Be the New Location for an Expansion Project of Citrix Systems

June 8, 2012 By

According to latest reports, Raleigh, North Carolina is making way for their
newest addition, a major corporate headquarter to their landscape. Citrix systems who are a major provider of cloud computing has locked down Raleigh for the expansion project of its Sharefile Data Sharing Group.  Sharefile hopes to announce the exact location of its new corporate headquarters by August.

 The project is expected to be completed in the next 5 years and Citrix Systems is reported to be investing a capital between $11 million and $26 million in Downtown Raleigh to house its workforce.

“At Sharefile, relaxation and play is considered as important as work in this corporate culture. We have a big tech company with a lot of young employees,” said Sharefile founder Jesse Lipson. “They want to be where the action is”.

“People are trying to come downtown more and more and more,” said Joey Brown. “People move from all sorts of other places to get down here.”

Adds Tara Zechini, I love to work downtown. The energy down here is great.”

“There’s always fun, there’s always parties and great things to eat and do; it’s a great place to be,” said Zechini.

Adding Sharefile’s employees to the downtown is bound to have an effect on the area’s economy.

 “When you move 500 professionals in a tech company to an area, they’re going to want to live near where they work and eat and experience entertainment in that area,” said Lipson.

He also believes that this move will affect the business end of Raleigh in a dramatic way.

“I think it’ll have a ripple effect on Raleigh and on other tech companies will want to move their headquarters down to where the action is.”

To return the favor to Citrix Systems for the expansion in Raleigh, the city has decided to award a Job Development Investme

nt Grant. The grant pays the company 2.25 percent of the new tax value of taxable investment recorded on the tax records for a period of 12 years at the current tax rate of $0.3735 per $100 property valuation.


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Gyron to Build 56,700 sq.ft New Data Center in Slough

May 29, 2012 By

Gyron, one of UK’s data center providers recently announced that they are building a new data center in Slough, which is located just outside London. The data center is cover 56,700 sq.ft of space. The site will consist of dual redundant 8MW power suppliers from two dedicated on-site HV substations.

Gyron said the new data center will complement its existing Maryland’s and Centro facilities in Hemel Hempstead, UK, which combined will have a total power capacity of 19MW.

It has been reported that all three data centers are going to be linked with a new dedicated fibre optic network ring and that the new data center will have connections to multiple fibre-optic providers. The data center will also be provided with blast-proof windows and vehicular impact protection and prison specification perimeter fencing.

Gyron managing director Robin Balen said the facility will be built to a Tier IV standard and with Gyron’s other facilities, will provide disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

“We plan on providing our colocation services at a class-leading PUE of between 1.2 and 1.3, with all power supplied from 100% green renewable sources, and we will be extending our ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 27001 external certifications to cover this facility,” Balen said.

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Arsalon Technologies Plans to Expand Their Data Center to Meet Demands

May 24, 2012 By

Arsalon Technologies recently announced opening of Phase two of their Lenexa data center because of the increasing demand of cloud hosting solutions and IT outsourcing. The Arsalon hosting facility expansion will be made available for clients and will create up to 25 new positions.

Data centers for the companies have become a way to avoid high costs which occur due of managing own hosting facilities. Arsalon’s services are giving the clients the ability to do a smooth transition from their current infrastructure to cloud computing.

Arsalon’s expansion plan involves the installation of two-1.5MW Cummins generators with paralleling switch gears and redundant chillers, A/C units and UPS units. The project planning and construction is headed by Rand Construction, a national expert in critical facilities. Also on the team are Burns & McDonnell and Heartland Electric.

“The demand for high quality data center infrastructure and enterprise class hosting services has continued to be strong,” said Arsalon CEO, Gary Hall. “Our clients require scalable power and bandwidth. They need a reliable solution for their IT operations and we help them do it in a capital-efficient way. Our track record of continual growth over the past ten years reflects our ability to problem solve and consistently provide innovative, secure hosting solutions for our new and current client base.”

The new data center is conveniently situated in Kansas City, has an abundant supply of power and internet connectivity and is looking forward to attract regional companies to create high skilled job opportunities over the next 24 months.

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New CyrusOne Data Center in Chandler

May 19, 2012 By

CyrusOne LLC of Houston broke ground of their 1 million square foot data center in Chandler which will serve the I.T needs of large companies on the West Coast. It will be the largest data center in the Phoenix area and the second largest in the U.S, smaller only to the 1.1 million square foot Lakeside Technology center in Chicago. The data center will feature 90,000 square foot of multitenant office space, one of the largest speculative offices since the recession hit.

While the company would not disclose the project’s cost, citing competitive reasons, CyrusOne Chief Technology Officer Kevin Timmons said it is employing a new design for the facility that it has dubbed “massively modular.”  “That means the data center’s interior will be built in phases as needed to accommodate new customers”, he said. “The first phase is expected to be completed by the beginning of 2013”, Timmons said.

“No customers have signed on yet to use the data center, but CyrusOne is in discussions with ‘big names.’” “We have a number of dedicated customers who follow CyrusOne wherever we go,” Timmons said.

CyrusOne is a subsidiary of Cincinnati based telecommunications carrier Cincinnati Bell Inc. It is a developer and operator of large data centers where high speed web access and space can be rented by customers for their internet connected digital computing and storage devices.

“The massive co-location center will employ about 50 technicians, administrators and other staff when completed”, Timmons said. The project is likely to create a large number of jobs as the center is frontrunner to become a hub for related businesses and web hosting customers that will rent space in the adjacent offices.

The data center’s 57-acre site, near Germann and Price roads, will feature a 110-megawatt power substation being built by SRP, the largest dedicated substation for any existing data center in the U.S., and one of the largest substations in the Phoenix area.

“The property was ideal because of its size and proximity to several telecommunications carriers’ fiber-optic Internet backbone infrastructure, allowing redundant, high-capacity bandwidth”, Timmons said.

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Connectria Hosting Announces Fourth Data Center in Texas

May 17, 2012 By

Connectria Hosting, provider of cloud computing managed hosting and custom hosting solutions to more than 1,000 customers in 30 countries worldwide, has announced plans to host public and private IBM i clouds. News of addition of a fourth data center at Connectria to meet growing demand is also going around the industry.

The new data center, located in Lewisville, Texas, is a Tier 4 designated facility which is the highest level a data center can achieve according to standards set forth by the Telecommunications Infrastructure Standards for Data Centers. The facility will be capable of hosting mission critical computer systems, telecommunications gear, and storage environments with fully redundant subsystems and compartmentalized security zones, monitored by biometric access control methods. It is projected to be operational in the third quarter of this year.

Plans to deliver Connectria’s expanding cloud computing solutions and to provide additional disaster recovery option to its clients are of primary importance. Over the year, the center is expected to accommodate the full range of Connectria’s services. Improved connectivity and proximity for international markets, including South America is another feature of the new data center. Connectria currently has two data centers in St. Louis and one in Philadelphia. The company recently unveiled the availability of its IBM AIX cloud with services that will cost around $1,245 per month which customers will be able to purchase as per requirement.

“We realize that cloud computing is not limited to Windows and Linux alone,” said Connectria president and CEO, Rich Waidman. “Connectria’s commitment to provide reliable cloud hosting solutions for a wide range of customers and environments, including IBM i, IBM AIX, and Oracle/Sun Solaris sets us apart from the crowd.”

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