Issue 20, Feb/March
FOCUS NEWS NAM
US GOVERNMENT CTO STANDS DOWN
US federal government CTO and assistant to
President Barack Obama, Aneesh Chopra, has stepped down.
Chopra was hired as the government’s fi rst CTO in May 2009. There is speculation he is likely to run for lieutenant governor in Virginia. No replacement has been announced.
“As the fi rst chief technology offi cer, Aneesh Chopra did groundbreaking work to bring our
NEW JERSEY Nasdaq
is carrying out a
technology upgrade at its OMX colocation facility in Cartaret. Its new access services offering, Super Cab, will bring 17KW to the cabinet for high-density trading environments, and it will soon offer 40GbE connectivity
for clients connecting to the Nasdaq switch.
Russo Development secured planning approval for a data center park on its 71-acre green- fi eld property in Franklin. Russo’s director of marketing, Lisa Sikora, said the company had multiple design options for the future Somerset Technology Park, but the end result will be determined by its tenants.
The site will have a dedicated substation capable of serving 100MW of power and will receive electrical service from three separate switching stations.
Modular data center maker IO completed an SSAE 16 Type 2 audit for its IO New Jersey, IO Phoenix and IO Scottsdale facilities. SSAE 16 replaces SAS 70 Type 1 and Type 2 audit reports and covers IO’s procedures.
CALIFORNIA
RagingWire’s 250,000 sq ft data center in Sacramento received LEED Gold certification by the US Green Building Council.
government into the 21st century,” Obama said. “Aneesh found countless ways to engage the American people using technology – from electronic health records for veterans… to modernizing government records.”
He was part of a team led by past CIO Vivek Kundra that ignited a bottom-up reform of the way the federal government does IT and data centers. Kundra has since joined Salesforce. com as executive VP of emerging markets.
COLORADO Colorado-based Hensel Phelps Construction will build the US Social Security Administration’s new data center in Maryland for US$192m. The 400,000 sq ft Tier III data facility will support 10MW IT load and the building is required to achieve LEED Gold by the US Green Building Council.
OREGON
Oregon’s central revenue agency is changing its tax-assessment rules in response to complaints from Facebook and Google. The change will exempt both companies from being centrally assessed by the state, making sure that the tax breaks promised by the counties will remain in effect.
Google has plans, however, to build
experimental to homes in broadband
networks to provide Internet connectivity
communities around the US. If one or more of these happen to be in Oregon and is served out of the company’s data center in The Dalles, Google may potentially lose its privilege to be locally assessed as it would end up being classifi ed as a utility by law.
VIRGINIA
The US Army is calling for tenders for a data center build for the Department of Defense’s geospatial intelligence
support
agency. It said the potential project is worth more than $10m.
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The Army wants to convert a 30,000 sq ft room in the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) campus in Springfield into a Tier II data center.
Equinix said it is expanding its Washington DC data center. It said it will launch DC11 in early 2013, brining online 1,200 cabinets. The fi rst phase of the project is expected to cost US$88m.
It will be built at the same time as Equinix starts construction on Phase II at DC10 following the opening of Phase I in March this year.
KANSAS Technology service provider
CoSentry is building a US$31.6m data center in Lenexa, Greater Kansas City. It will purchase 57,517 sq ft at 14500 W 105th Street.
NEW YORK
GalaxyVisions and its subsidiary, ColoGuard, reduced the use of mechanical air conditioning at their shared Brooklyn data center by 75% since implementing airside
economization the facility at two years ago.
GalaxyVisions said this offered substantial effi ciency advantages.
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