Issue 7, Dec 09/Jan 10


FOCUS NEWS NORTH AMERICA


VISA MEETS ITS REQUIREMENTS


Hosting company Liquid Web launched a new data center and headquarters in Lansing, Michigan. The company said it invested about $80m in the new 90,000 sq ft facility, which houses 50,000 sq ft of data center floor.


Data center service provider Internap allocated $22m to the expansion of its data center in Seattle, Washington. The expansion will add 15,000 sq ft of data center space.


Arkansas BlueCross and BlueShield is building a new data center in Conway, Arkansas. The 18,000 sq ft facility will be one of two the insurer will use to replace its existing data center.


Colocation and network interconnection provider Telx announced the availability of additional space at its Los Angeles facility. The new space is adjacent to the company’s data center at 600 West 7th St.


Digital Realty Trust continued expanding its high-tech real estate portfolio by buying two fully leased data centers in Silicon Valley for a total of about $90.5m.


During the third quarter of 2009, DRT’s main rival, DuPont Fabros, executed five new leases, totalling 15.9MW of power and yielding about $310m in total contract value. DuPont said it would focus resources on completing two new developments in New Jersey and Virginia before picking up a suspended Silicon Valley project.


EMC unveiled plans to expand its presence in North Carolina. The company bought a 450,000 sq ft property near the state’s technology hub, Research Triangle Park, which houses new data centers and R&D labs.


Electronic payment technology company Visa has added a fourth data center to its roster. Visa said the 370,000 sq ft facility was in the Eastern US, but it did not disclose its exact location. This is the company’s second data center in the US. According to Visa, it is capable of processing more than 10,000 transaction messages per second.


The facility was a key milestone in Visa’s technology upgrade that has taken place over several years. Each of the two synchronised North


Colocation and managed service provider QualityTech secured investment to further expand its Atlanta, Georgia, data center which is currently housing 200,000 sq ft of raised floor. The company will double its existing floor space at the site. The new $150m investment came from growth equity firm General Atlantic. Some of the money will also be used for improvements at the company’s facilities in Santa Clara, California.


Colocation and peering provider CoreSite has settled on a target date for opening its new massive Silicon Valley data center complex. Phase 1 of the facility in Santa Clara, California, will come online in Q1 2010. The phase will yield 50,000 sq ft of data center floor on a 49MW site that has room for two more phases – 180,000 sq ft each. CoreSite expects to invest a total of about $350m into the facility.


Phoenix, Arizona-based colocation provider i/o Data Centers began building out Phase 2 of its Phoenix One data center two years ahead of schedule. The company cited unexpectedly quick takeup of space in the facility’s first phase, officially launched in June of 2009. Each of the two 20MW phases provides


American data centers is capable of supporting the company’s entire worldwide payment volume in case of downtime at any of the global locations.


The data center is already processing transactions. The company has put the facility through a stress test and reported that it was able to handle message-volume beyond the volume observed at the height of the holiday


180,000 sq ft of data center space.


Also in Phoenix, a new data center being built by Phoenix NAP to provide colocation and cross-connect services has made three deals with physical fibre carriers to extend their networks into the facility. AboveNet, Level 3 and AGL all built additional lines into the Phoenix NAP data center and installed their equipment in the facility’s new peering room. While the colocation floor is still under construction, the not-for-profit peering room is live.


In Texas, the state government exempted its voting system from being included in the data center outsourcing contract with IBM. The secretary of state office said the reason for this was a server crash that caused 13 days of downtime of the agency’s filing system for business records, according to an Austin American Statesman report. Agreement in question was a seven-year contract, under which IBM had been consolidating the IT infrastructure of 27 state departments into two data centers.


The government of Savannah, Georgia, brought online its new $970,000m municipal data center – part of an IT infrastructure


shopping season. In 2008, VisaNet reported a peak rate of 8,442 transaction messages per second – its highest rate ever that was sustained for about one hour.


upgrade project funded mostly by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The US government awarded about $1.12m in recovery funds to the city. The project’s purpose was to increase disaster-recovery capabilities of the city’s IT infrastructure and to boost energy-efficiency.


Indiana University completed construction of an 80,000-plus sq ft data center that will serve the school’s campuses and provide disaster-recovery services to government departments of the state in which it is located. The school built the $33.7m data center in Bloomfield, Indiana, to replace one of its existing two. It houses three 11,000 sq ft computer rooms, two of which are currently online, with the third one left for future expansion.


Canadian data center service provider Q9 opened a new data center in the Calgary area. The facility is the company’s third and also its largest in the region. First phase (about 1.8MW) of the new data center – a $50m investment – has a capacity to hold 1,200 cabinet equivalents. The facility will be able to support more than 10,000 cabinet equivalents at full build-out.


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