Telx Opens Portland Data Center

December 13, 2012 By

Telx a privately held company has launched a new data center facility in Portland, Oregon. Telx has plans to accelerate company’s expansion plans to the Northwest. Telx facility in Portland is a company’s 19th facility and will be known as PRT1. Telx facility is around 15 miles away from Portland downtown.  Telx has implemented a full 2N +1 design and is capable of supporting client load of up-to 325 watts per sq ft. This facility has a 1.3 PUE (power usage Effectiveness) rating.

Vice President of Sales for Telx Eric Wick said, “With nine major carriers within reach of the facility and three major cable landing stations within one mile, PRT1 provides an impressive expansion of our West Coast capabilities. Tethering the PRT1 facility with Telx’s expanding portfolio of interconnection products such as Datacenter Connect and Metro Connect back to important Portland carrier hotels, quickly makes it a core regional asset. Together with our Bay Area facilities and our newly announced SEA1 facility, PRT1 provides both the ideal location for clients to reach Asia as well as being able to address the power consuming needs of gaming, media and

other SaaS applications and services.”

Oregon has attracted many data center companies, major data center companies like T5, ViaWest and NetApp have announced a new facility in Portland or Hillsboro. Telx is one of the major data center service providers in North American markets. The company has provided high performance networks and access to 1000 + customers including ISPs, content providers, Cloud providers, enterprises and carriers.

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Maintec Technologies Opens Data Center in Morrisville

December 5, 2012 By

          Maintec Technologies is an outsourcing company in Raleigh, North Carolina. Maintec Technologies started its operation in 1998 based in Bangalore, India. Maintec Technologies focuses on providing remediation services and IBM training services on Mainframe platform. Maintec Technologies maintains a complete data center in Bangalore staffed with system programmers and software engineers. Maintec is an IBM approved software service providers in Authorized Training Partners (ATP) and Software Service Providers (SSP).

          Maintec Technologies started a new data center in Raleigh, North Carolina. This new data center has 8, 000 sq ft of data center space and constructed to cater mainframe colocation and managed mainframe customers.

          Sonny Gupta CEO of Maintec Technologies said, “Whether for safety from hurricanes and floods, to free up office space, or to access hard-to-find mainframe staff, mainframe colocation is catching on today. From one rack up to 4,000 square feet, we are ready to be your mainframe data center. Maintec has the complete infrastructure and expert staff for 24/7/365 mainframe support. Depending on your needs, we provide mainframe colocation, mainframe raised floor space and/or mainframe managed services.” Mr. Gupta added, “Companies with from 20 to 1,000 MIPS find us extremely cost effective. Plus, Morrisville is 200 miles inland, so safe from flooding like that Hurricane Sandy recently unleashed on York, New Jersey and other coastal areas,”

Some of the features of this new mainframe colocation data center are:

  • 8, 000 sq ft of total space
  • Two entrances, both are secured by an electronic combination lock
  • Raised floor center with command center
  • Constant 70deg temperature
  • UPS with backup of 150 KW Natural Gas Generator
  • Installed with a Constant building monitoring system with CCTV cameras
  • Fire protection system
  • Liebert CRAC air conditioning systems

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Pulsant Completes $6.1 Million UK Data Center

December 4, 2012 By

               Pulsant has provided high quality IT infrastructure to its customers since 1995. Pulsant now has eight data centers in 5 locations across the UK. Pulsant is one of the UK’s largest cloud, managed networks, managed hosting, and managed application and co-location service providers. Pulsant customers range from small enterprises to large private and public sector organizations.

                One of the Uk’s co-location and cloud hosting company announced its completion of $6.1 million data center in Milton Keynes, UK. This data center is located 45 miles away from Northwest of London. This project comes after 9 months since its launch in October 2011. This new data center in Milton Keynes has a total capacity of 37, 000 sq ft. This new data center provides services like managed hosting, co-location and managed hosting to small and large UK business. Pulsant currently serves 3, 000 customers across 8 UK centers ranging from Tier 2 to Tier 4. Pulsant has plans of expanding its data center in Scotland and South London. Milton Keynes data center is included with advanced system monitoring, power management and system monitoring system.

                CEO of Pulsant Mark Howling said, “This is a flagship data center in a prime ‘out of London’ location for businesses seeking an established, high quality, highly secure and PCI compliant facility. It operates to ISO27001, supports high rack power densities up to 15Kw, is connected by a resilient, multi-carrier high speed network with 0.2ms of network latency and is within one hour of the Capital.”

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Equinix Data Center Adds a New Data Center in Miami

December 4, 2012 By

Equinix is an American public corporation which currently operates 98 data centers across 12 countries in Europe, America and Asia-Pacific. Equinix offers traffic exchange, IT infrastructure and colocation services. Today Equinix operates International Business Exchange data centers in across 30 markets in 14 countries.

Equinix colocation service providers announced it has opened a new Data center on 31, 300 sq ft in area known as MI3. This new data center in Miami is an effort to meet customers’ demands. New data center in Miami is located just outside the evacuation zone and can withstand up to category 5 hurricanes. Recently Equinix acquired a newly build data center in Dubai which has a capacity of 44, 000 sq ft of data center space and can house approximately 650 cabinets. This new data center in Miami will serve a lot of customers in Latin and South America. Equinix has already signed-up with several customers like FiberLight, Cogent Communication, Inteliquent, Sidera Networks, telecom and Allied Fiber. Network customers can enjoy a lot of benefits including direct connectivity and reduced latency; customers can also enjoy the benefit for being a hub for local and international routes.

President of Equinix America Charles Meyers said, “We are seeing strong demand from network, cloud and content customers looking to leverage MI3 for access to the Latin American market. With the MI3 facility, Equinix can offer access to the lowest latency route to Brazil and provide a full range of managed hosting and colocation services delivered by ALOG from our three Brazil-based IBX data centers.”

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Fujitsu to Build New Data Center in Canada

November 29, 2012 By

                Fujitsu is a Japanese multi-national IT company, head quartered in Tokyo Japan. Fujitsu has over 172, 000 employees working across 70 countries, Fujitsu is the third largest IT service providers. On November 28, 2012 Fujitsu Public Cloud Service Wins Chairperson’s Award at Eco-Products Awards 2012. Fujitsu provides solutions for technical computing, AIT, healthcare, retail, telco, Automotive, biometric, smart network technology, financial industries. Fujitsu provides support to software, microelectronics, telecommunication and computing products.

                Fujitsu has planned to build a new data center in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. This new data center in Regina features 35, 000 sq ft of data center space. Fujitsu a global leaders currently maintains more than 1 Million sq feet of data centers with high security features. This new data center in Regina will make use of free cooling atmosphere and also uses super-green IT equipments to reduce cost and increase energy efficiency of the plant.

Fujitsu President, Canada André Pouliot said, “As the world’s third largest IT services provider, Fujitsu has a proud history in the design, construction and operation of intelligent data centers, with the launch of this new facility, we are offering clear opportunities for all organizations, regardless of size or industry, to enhance the use of technology to improve efficiencies and significantly reduce costs. The innovative design of the Fujitsu facility will allow organizations to host applications and data in data storage pools for the time required and pay only for the capacity needed. With the gradual optimization of IT budgeting, Fujitsu has also reduced the cost of maintenance and IT equipment upgrades. ”

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Carter Validus REIT $65M Data Center in Philadelphia

November 27, 2012 By

                Carter Validus is one of the leading real estate firms with approximately 150 associates across US. Carter Validus has over $2.5 billion assets across 17 million square feet of commercial property. Carter Validus primarily concentrates to invest in quality income-producing commercial real estate places like healthcare sectors and data centers.

                Carter validus Mission Critical REIT inc. has bought a data center in Philadelphia from CSX Corporation for about $65 Million. This data center in Philadelphia was built in 1993 and has area about 121, 000 sq foot. This two story building was specifically designed to house data centers equipment.  This data center is capable of withstanding extreme weather conditions like tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes to some extent.

This property was fully leased to a large investment management company. John Carter CEO of Carter Validus said, “The quality tenant has a long remaining lease term and significant capital investment in the property, which is expected to provide a strong rental income stream to the REIT’s portfolio for years to come.“  This property is fully leased to CV and CBRE represented the seller in connection to the company.

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E-shelter Opens a New Data Center in Rüsselsheim

November 27, 2012 By

E-shelter is one of the infrastructure providers which plans, develops and operates data centers with high level of operational reliability and security. E-shelter is located in Frankfurt, Germany. E-shelter protects its high availability data centers with multi-level security systems and offers dedicated onsite services and control center. Some of the specialized business offered by E-shelter are leasing of data center and office space, operation of E-shelter and external data centers, planning and development of data centers and their technical infrastructures and security services.

E-Shelter has opened a new facility in Rüsselsheim, Germany. This data center is around 4, 500 sq feet in area and third facility of the company, it took around three years to complete this project and was opened on scheduled. E-Shelter has focused mainly on energy efficiency during designing of this data center. This plant uses hybrid exterior cooling system which is approximately 30% more efficient than conventional cooling systems. This new facility enhances serving space in European hub.

Rupprecht Rittweger, Founder and managing director of e-shelter said, “Thanks to its importance as a financial centre and international internet hub, Frankfurt is the leading place for DC-space in Europe and therefore our most important market. Our expansion in this region means we are not only able to respond to the increasing levels of demand, we can also offer our customers locations that are interconnected.”

Horst Weterfeld, CIO in the State of Hesse said, “With the IT systems of the State of Hesse, we have set ourselves the goal of taking on a leading role in Europe in this field. The company e-shelter sets standards with the performance and energy efficiency of its data centers, and is also a good example of the optimization of IT infrastructures.”

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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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Data Center Risk Management Plan Checklist

December 18, 2011 By

Use this tool to document Risk and their mitigation plan. Very useful tool and checklist for risk management for data centers..

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Shipping Company Signs $150M, “Instant-On Enterprise” Data Center Agreement with HP

November 25, 2011 By

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Denmark-based Maersk Line, the world’s largest shipping company, has signed a $150 million-plus private cloud infrastructure services agreement with Hewlett-Packard Denmark to support its global growth strategy.

5 Year Agreement will help Maersk Line

Announced Wednesday, the five-year agreement will help Maersk Line become what HP calls an “Instant-On Enterprise” through HP’s cloud-enabled data centers and HP Workplace Services. With technology embedded in all key areas of the business, the Instant-On Enterprise has the ability to effectively converge, connect and control all the elements in traditional and mobile environments, and provide users whatever they need, instantly.

“[W]e have to think beyond the device,” says HP Canada Personal Systems Group vice president and general manager Leyland Brown in a recent blog post. “The strategic value and opportunities for solution providers and vendors will come from a holistic view and understanding of all the elements in the ecosystem — devices, platforms, applications, infrastructure, networking, printing and service levels — that build an ‘Instant-On Enterprise.’”

Private Cloud Computing Environment

While HP currently supplies Maersk Line other technology and support services and hardware such as servers, storage, networking equipment and PCs, this contract will give Maersk Line a private cloud computing environment for distributed and local applications. HP will also take over the Service Desk function at Maersk Line and deliver Workplace Services to maintain the company’s computing devices, such as desktop and notebook PCs, for almost 38,000 users in more than 100 countries.

Agile Technology Infrastructure

“Maersk Line operates in a competitive global industry that demands innovation to create the agile technology infrastructure we need to be a leader among our peers,” Maersk Line chief information officer Adam Gade said in a statement. “HP’s global scope combined with its proven expertise in standardizing technology across large enterprises will help us deliver greater value to our business and support our ability to remain the world’s most reliable container shipping company.”

Launched in late 2010, the Instant-On Enterprise concept has been rolled out worldwide.

US Airways, for instance, recently signed agreements for applications management and data center hosting services, in addition to its hosting and maintenance of the airline’s flight operating system and managed mainframe hosting for applications.

HP Agreement with a Poland Agency

Poland’s Agriculture Restructuring and Modernization Agency also recently signed an agreement with HP to upgrade their system which helps distribute European Union funds to farmers in Poland to meet current laws, build new modules and add new functionality.

 

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