Issue 4, June 2009
FOCUS NEWS NORTH AMERICA
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Data Collection Initiative, part of the agency’s programme to develop an Energy Star rating for data center infrastructure, will fi nish in June. The year-long project involves collecting data on energy use and operating characteristics from a large number of existing data centers, including both standalone facilities and data centers located in offi ces and other types of building. It will also help operators improve data center energy effi ciency.
US CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER NAMED Aneesh Chopra was announced as the US’s chief technology offi cer in President Barack Obama’s weekly radio address. Chopra’s current position is that of secretary of technology in the state of Virginia.
Hosted Solutions has completed a $6m upgrade to its Boston data center. The company said the investment was spent on improvements in infrastructure, power, cooling, back-up power, security and video surveillance.
Asset management fi rm Neuberger Berman has signed a lease with Digital Realty Trust for a turnkey data center in the north eastern US. Meanwhile, Lee Technologies was selected by DRT to operate 10 of its US data centers. The sites are in Phoenix, Chicago, St Louis, Dallas and Houston. Lee Technologies had previously provided facility operations at DRT’s Dublin and Paris operations. Large US enterprises are citing extreme concern about government regulations aff ecting data center operations and say this is spurring energy-effi cient green activities, a survey by the supplier revealed. The company found a similar picture in Europe.
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FORTUNE ACHIEVES 1.37 PUE AT FIRST PHASE OF NEW SAN JOSE DATA CENTER
WEST ELECTRICAL YARD PHASE ONE EAST ELECTRICAL YARD
EQUIPMENT MEZZANINE
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San Jose-based Fortune Data Centers said it achieved a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 1.37 at full load at its new facility. The company said the
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recently completed initial phase provides 7.86MW of IT-critical load over two data rooms. The rooms consist of 43,000 fully powered and usable square feet of IT fl oor space in a 78,000 sq ft building.
Phase One open for business
New York senator Charles Schumer has said the prospects of a data center deal with Yahoo! were looking “very good”. The courting of Yahoo! has been ongoing for several months, with other states also interested. In the end, the offer of 8MW of low-cost hydro-electric power swayed the decision in favour of north-western New York for a 60,000 sq ft facility.
Raritan announced a deal with Microsoft’s Enterprise Engineering Center for a suite of IT management solutions to monitor server energy consumption to the outlet level. Located on the main campus in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft’s data center contains more than $125m in hardware and networking equipment.
Peak10 has opened its 22,000 sq ft data center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The event was sponsored by Chapel, Applied Mechanical System, ORR Protection Systems, On Line Computer Products, Rittal and National Power Corporation and attracted 200 local businesses.
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The company said it achieved the PUE number by eliminating
Q9 Networks signed a 15-year data center services agreement with HP subsidiary EDS Advanced Solutions under which it will build a data center in Kamloops, British Columbia. The deal will support EDS’ $560m contract with the British Columbia Ministry of Labour and Citizens’ Services.
Equinix opened the second phase of its New York-4 International Business Exchange data center in Secaucus, New Jersey. Market data content provider ACTIV Financial and displayed markets provider Direct Edge are among the fi rst customers of the $82m expansion, which will add 1,100 cabinets of capacity to Equinix’s data center footprint.
Global IT services provider HCL Technologies and Xerox have announced a six-year data center outsourcing and transformation agreement. The contract, worth $100m,
focuses on mid-range services, business continuity and disaster recovery for Xerox’s information management operations.
raised fl oors and supplying cold air “from an overhead plenum, with insulated ducts for hot air return”. It added: “Taking advantage of the natural density of cold air and the buoyancy of hot air signifi cantly reduces the power required for air distribution. In addition to the energy savings, mounting cabinets directly on the fl oor reduces installation cost, increases seismic stability and removes weight constraints.”
WORLD FUEL SERVICES SIGNS IN TO TERREMARK’S NETWORK ACCESS POINT Terremark has signed World Fuel Services Corporation as a tenant at its Network Access Point of the Americas to colocate its business-critical IT infrastructure. World Fuel Services sells
marine, aviation and land fuel products and related services in more than 190 countries. Terremark will provide secure
and reliable colocation services, backed by 100% service level agreements for the data center’s power and environmental systems.
HP PLANS $100M CENTER IN COLORADO SPRINGS Hewlett Packard is looking for planning approval to build a $100m data center in Colorado Springs. The company fi led a request
on 14 April to build a two- storey, 251,521 sq ft data center next to its existing three-building, 1.1 million sq ft complex located in the north- west of the city.
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