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SuperbServers Opens Seattle Data Center
SuperbServers.Net has opened its third data center, a facility in the Seattle area that it says will host between 5,000 and 7,000 customer servers. The company did not specifiy the size of the facility in Tukwila, Wash., which is south of Seattle and home to numerous Internet data centers.
The data center is equipped with three 500KVA N+1 redundant UPS's and a 1.5MW diesel generator power backup system, 180 tons of AC power, with easy expandability up to 540 tons, fibre redundancy through multiple private SONET rings via multiple carriers, and a redundant architecture Gigabit Ethernet-based internal network using Cisco backbone-grade equipment. Superb says it will peer at both at the SIX (Seattle Internet Exchange) and PAIX Seattle, thus reaching almost all the major networks locally.
"We're tremendously proud of this new facility," said Haralds Jass, President and CEO of Superb. "Everything is top of the line and designed to provide the very highest level of service to our customers. The Seattle Data Center allows us to offer an even wider range of services and support a broader range of customers."
"We are planning for significant growth in 2006 and Seattle is a critical component of that plan," said Sasha Wilson, VP Sales and Marketing for Superb.
September 27, 2005
AT&T Expands Data Center Network
AT&T is opening two additional Internet Data Centers (IDCs) in California and China, and expanding its existing presence in the New York City center by 27 percent. With the new centers, AT&T will be able to provide managed data center services from 28 IDCs worldwide - 14 within the U.S. and 14 overseas.
AT&T is bolstering its presence in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay area with a new center in San Jose, Calif., which is scheduled to open in November. The center will more than double the company's existing hosting capacity already available in that market. AT&T already has an IDC in Redwood City, Calif. AT&T also announced its intention to offer hosting services in Shanghai, China. Service is expected to be available in November. AT&T already has an IDC in Hong Kong.
"We're seeing tremendous demand for our hosting capabilities all over the world," said Mike Jenner, vice president of AT&T Hosting and Application Management Services. "In addition to increasing our capacity and physical footprint, we're focused on providing businesses value-added managed hosting services, such as pay-per-use capacity, enabling our customers to easily and affordably manage their applications and better serve their end-users."
Posted by Rich Miller 
September 27, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter
September 25, 2005
Xodiax Takes Name of New Parent Peak 10
Louisville data center and managed services provider Xodiax will adopt the name of its new parent company, Peak 10 effective September 22. Peak 10 also previewed its new Louisville data center at the event. The new 25,000 square foot facility will be operational in mid-October.
"The change to Peak 10 completes our process of corporate transition that began with the merger of Peak 10 and Xodiax last year," said Don Esterle, vice president and general manager of Peak 10 Louisville. "Even though there has been a change in name, the people and the commitment we have to our customers and the Louisville market will remain the same. Furthermore, the commitment Peak 10 has made to the Louisville market will go unchanged.
"We will also take full advantage of Peak 10's visibility and brand recognition through out the region as we continue to grow our business, especially in the areas of data replication, risk mitigation and disaster recovery involving multiple Peak 10 data centers."
Earlier in the year, Peak 10 announced a large-scale data center expansion project in Louisville just six months after the company acquired Xodiax in November of 2004. The expansion was fueled by Xodiax's success and the growing demand for high-end managed services and infrastructure hosting in the Louisville market. Peak 10 has increased the size of its Louisville data center by 25,000 square feet, bringing it inline with its other facilities in Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C. and Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla.
The expanded Louisville facility maintains Peak 10's high standards for security, reliability and redundancy and will also connect to the company's private network enabling it to offer additional storage, disaster recovery and business continuity services to customers nationwide.
"The Xodiax team integrated flawlessly with Peak 10 from the very beginning and we all have embraced the goal to build a stronger identity among customers, employees, investors and the communities we serve as well as position Peak 10 broadly as a dynamic, diverse data center operator and managed services organization," said David Jones, president and chief executive officer of Peak 10. "Having separate names did not communicate the scope of Peak 10, and we want to be identified by one single name to clearly and concisely represent the standard of quality we provide customers nationwide."
Posted by Rich Miller September 25, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter
September 23, 2005
RealAuction Locates at NAP of the Americas
Realauction.com recently announced the move of its data servers to the NAP of the Americas, Miami's Tier-1 Network Access Point. NAP of the Americas is owned and operated by Terremark Worldwide.
Realauction joins government agencies including the US Department of Defense Southern Command, Miami-Dade County (including its 911 center) and the City of Coral Gables in locating at the NAP. Other clients of the NAP include AT&T, BellSouth, FPL, Bacardi and Yahoo.
"We require fast, secure, dependable transactions for our clients," said Lloyd McClendon, CEO of Realauction. "The NAP is known for security, reliability and speed, so it was a logical choice for our hosting facility. Our experience in government data transfer and online tax lien auctions has shown that these features are vital for our business."
Realauction provides a complete system for counties and municipalities to operate an online sale of delinquent tax lien certificates. The system yields increased revenues to tax collectors, and enables bidders to participate from virtually any location in the world.
Posted by Rich Miller September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter
Quality Buys Huge DeltaCom Data Center
Quality Technology Group LLC has bought a large Georgia data center from ITC^DeltaCom for $25.8 million, the companies said in a press release. ITC^DeltaCom has been trying for some time to sell the massive Suwanee, Ga. data center, which various reports cite as spanning 376,000 square feet.
Quality has been "rolling up data centers and tech office space for pennies on the dollar of their development cost," according to the Kansas City Business Journal, which reports that Quality CEO Chad Williams has already bought data centers in Topeka, Wichita and Indianapolis and signed a 20-year lease on the former Cable & Wireless PLC data center in Lenexa, Kansas. The magazine reports that Quality is close to buying a data center in the New York market as well.
Posted by Rich Miller September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter
BitTorrent Moves Gear to 365 Main
BitTorrent, a Bay Area content distribution company, has chosen 365 Main’s data center to host its company infrastructure. BitTorrent chose 365 Main for its accessible location, quality of service and intelligently designed building structure.
"We are happy to be working with 365 Main for their value added services and their commitment to customer satisfaction,” said Ashwin Navin, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer for BitTorrent Inc. “365 Main’s convenient location and top-tier facilities was a final decision factor for the future growth of our company"
365 Main’s state-of-the-art data center is located in downtown San Francisco. It runs a neutral carrier platform giving customers an expansive choice of services without the high costs associated with other data centers.
"We are proud to be the only data center in the Bay Area to offer such a vast array of value added services to customers such as BitTorrent," said JP Balajadia, Vice President of Operations for 365 Main. "We understand the important needs and safety that’s important to our customers and its important they can rely on our services and infrastructure to keep them going on a 24X7 basis."
Posted by Rich Miller September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter
365 Main Acquires Huge El Segundo Data Center
San Francisco data center operator 365 Main has expanded into the Los Angeles market with the purchase of a 131,000 square foot facility in El Segundo. The 131,000 square foot facility was built by AboveNet, which invested $70 million to outfit it as a web hosting center.
"The business model we developed in San Francisco continues to outperform our expectations," stated Chris Dolan, President and CEO of 365 Inc. "This is the right time to expand our business footprint and strengthen the 365 brand." With financial backing from Rockwood Capital, 365 Main is looking at other expansion opportunities in the red-hot data center sector. "There are obvious cities on our radar," Dolan said, "some to meet the growing needs of our customer base, others to fill the void that exists in the industry."
Posted by Rich Miller September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter
Equinix Buys LA Data Center, Plans More Deals
Internet exchange service provider Equinix, Inc. has acquired a 107,000 square foot data center in the Los Angeles market, and is unveiling plans for additional expansion and data center purchases.
The center, located in El Segundo, will become Equinix's third IBX center in the Los Angeles area, and follows expansions announced by Equinix earlier this year in the Silicon Valley and Chicago markets. The new center will be acquired through a purchase, where Equinix will own the land, the building and the data center assets. It will provide Equinix with additional data center space to respond to strong customer demand in the Los Angeles market, particularly among the large aggregation of rapidly growing digital media companies in the region.
Originally built for Exodus Communications in 2001 at a cost of approximately $80 million, the 107,000 square foot stand-alone center was purchased for $34.5 million. Equinix conducted a rigorous review of all data center properties on the market in the Los Angeles area and identified this property to be the only center available to meet Equinix's high standards. The center, with its advanced power infrastructure, will add approximately 2,000 cabinets and will double Equinix's Los Angeles area footprint to more than 200,000 square feet. Equinix intends to open the new center for customers in the first half of 2006.
Posted by Rich Miller September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter
CI Host Adds Data Center in Newark Facility
C I Host has opened a data center in Newark, New Jersey, providing its customers with new oportunities for geographic content distribution and geographic load balancing. "Our customers can now back up their entire office and its files to up to our data centers in Newark, Chicago, Fort Worth and Los Angeles," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "They can mirror content from the East Coast to the West Coast or the reverse."
Housing equipment and serving data at different locations around the globe is important for companies who have customers in several locations. The closer the server is to the customer, the more quickly the web page will load and the more likely the customer will stay on line.
"We know that millions of dollars of business can be earned or lost online depending on whether the customer can navigate the site quickly," Faulkner said. "So we put a major emphasis on the quick download times that geographic load balancing provides."
Posted by Rich Miller September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter
Huge Lease for GoogleNet at 111 Eighth Ave.
Google has leased 270,000 square feet of space at 111 Eighth Avenue, one of the largest carrier hotels in Manhattan, according to Real Estate Weekly and the New York Post. The enormous lease is the most visible sign yet of the GoogleNet, the long-rumored national IP backbone Google is stitching together from its bulk purchases of dark fiber. In recent weeks Google has begun to take the wraps off its ambitions for a range of IP-based services, including VoIP, chat, video-on-demand and WiFi Internet access. The reported lease at 111 Eighth shows that the construction of such "alt-Nets" could become a significant driver of leasing for data centers and telecom hotels. Industry veterans quoted in thePost story are impressed:
"They are building a network," said Hunter Newby, chief strategy officer with telecom specialist firm Telx. "None of us have ever seen any type of network buildup on this scale before."Newby has seen a few networks in his day, as his company runs a major interconnection center in New York's other high-profile telecom hotel at 60 Hudson Street. Link via GigaOm.
Posted by Rich Miller September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter
September 19, 2005
SAVVIS Announces Santa Clara Data Center
SAVVIS said it will complete construction on a 127,000 square foot data center in Santa Clara, Calif., which will open for customers early next year. In announcing the build-out of the facility, which it bought from Cable & Wireless America last year, SAVVIS cited strong demand for its data center space in the area.
"Our fully-built out data centers in the Silicon Valley are near capacity, and we continue to have new business opportunities," said SAVVIS Chairman and CEO Rob McCormick. "This center, which is near completion already, will play an important role in our continued growth in Silicon Valley and in the IT infrastructure marketplace."
SAVVIS said it expects to spend $12-14 million to complete the data center, which was originally built for Exodus and was about 85 percent completed when work was halted. Exodus filed for Chapter 11, and was then purchased by C&W America, which was subsequently purchased by SAVVIS in a prepackaged bankruptcy deal. Two St Louis-based firms, Ascent Corp. and Clayco, will manage the build-out.
SAVVIS currently operates 24 data centers encompassing more than 1.3 million square feet around the world.
Posted by Rich Miller September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter
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