« June 2006 | Main | August 2006 »
Internap Expands with Toronto PNAP
Internap Network Services (IIP) has announced plans to expand market coverage by creating a Private Network Access Point (P-NAP) in Toronto. The expansion is part of the Atlanta-based company's growth strategy and marks its entrance into the Canadian market. Internap currently serves customers via international locations in Hong Kong, London, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and multiple U.S. cities.
The new Toronto P-NAP facility, expected for completion in the fourth quarter of 2006, will mirror the architecture used within the U.S., which directs traffic across multiple backbones for the fastest and best performing route. Canadian customers will be able to connect to a P-NAP via local loop or cross-connect within the same colocation space to gain access to Internap's reliable and optimized IP service to avoid congestion problems, performance degradations and outages.
July 28, 2006
Peak 10 Opens Second Charlotte Data Center
Data center operator Peak 10 today announced the opening of its second data center at its headquarter location in Charlotte, N.C. The company said its Charlotte facility is now the largest privately-held data center and managed services operation in North Carolina.
"Our expansion in Charlotte demonstrates our proven track record of investing in the markets we serve," said David H. Jones, president and chief executive officer of Peak 10. "This new center and other expansion projects are being deployed based on the same philosophy that underlies the success of Peak 10 as a company: incremental, success based growth in phases to limit capital exposure but to provide high availability as well as reliable and cost effective solutions for our customers."
Posted by Rich Miller 
July 28, 2006 | Permalink | Newsletter
July 27, 2006
Digital Realty Buys Phoenix Internet Gateway
Digital Realty Trust (DLR) has acquired 120 East Van Buren, the premier carrier hotel for the Phoenix, Ariz. metropolitan area, for $175 million, the company said today. Digital Realty also purchased data center facilities in Ft. Worth, Texas and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and announced the sale of Denver's Stanford Place II for a gain of $17.9 million.
The acquisition of the 347,000 square foot Phoenix property from Sterling Network Services gives Digital Realty a prime building in one of the fastest-growing markets for disaster recovery and corporate application hosting. It serves as the primary hub for Internet traffic in the greater Phoenix area. The building contains 175,000 square feet of data center space, including over 95,000 square feet of space operated by the building for corporate users, as well as an 11,000 square foot meet-me-room (MMR) that facilitates access to the numerous carriers serving the property. Digital Realty Trust plans to add 30,000 square feet of new raised floor to accommodate the increasing demand for highly improved, custom data center space in the Phoenix market.
"The acquisition of Phoenix's premier Internet gateway facility represents a very significant addition to our portfolio," said Digital Realty Trust CEO Michael Foust. "It enhances our presence in this important top tier market and expands our ability to provide exceptional data center and collocation services to our corporate and network customers. There are over 40 different fiber carriers operating in the facility, and with the substantial power available at the property, the building accommodates mission critical applications for a wide variety of corporate users."
Posted by Rich Miller July 27, 2006 | Permalink | Newsletter
LiquidWeb Opens Michigan Data Center
Hosting provider Liquid Web Inc has announced the opening of its newest data center facility, located in Lansing, Michigan. The 32,000 square foot center has bandwidth from AT&T, MCI and Savvis Communication, and has has been designed with "complete redundancy." LiquidWeb says the data center will eventually house nearly 8,000 web servers and will make Liquid Web one of the largest consumers of bandwidth in the greater Lansing area.
Liquid Web chose the HostingCon2006 conference in Las Vegas announce the opening of DC2 due to its targeted global audience of demanding Hosting professionals. "HostingCon was the perfect place to announce our newest Data Center because it attracts a very specialized group of companies that demand complete reliability from a Data Center provider." said Matthew Hill, CEO of Liquid Web Inc. "We designed DC2 with complete redundancy and reliability to cater to customers with an uncompromising need for maximum uptime and support."
Posted by Rich Miller July 27, 2006 | Permalink | Newsletter
July 26, 2006
Telehouse Internet Exchanges See Growth
Internet exchanges operated by colocation pioneer Telehouse in New York and Los Angeles experienced strong growth in the second quarter of 2006. The New York Internet Exchange (NYIIX) and The Los Angeles Internet Exchange (LAIIX) each added members as more companies opted for public and private peering's economic benefits.
The NYIIX, metro New York's largest peering exchange, now has ninety-three members as it welcomed Access IT, Choopa, Dream Tank, Freedom Networks, Interserver, Virgin Radio, MTN and Xand Communications. The increase in membership and upgrades for Globix/Neon and Internet Solution (which are at NYIIX's home base at the 25 Broadway carrier hotel) helped the exchange hit a peak traffic volume just under 16Gbps.
"Paralleling our growth in peak traffic and membership is the expanded media and entertainment peering opportunities NYIIX and LAIIX offer our members and customers at 25 Broadway, 60 Hudson, 111 Eighth, and 626 and One Wilshire," said Michael Vallone, head of marketing at Telehouse America. Our new members make this space even more attractive."
Posted by Rich Miller July 26, 2006 | Permalink | Newsletter
One Wilshire Upgrades Power After 'Disruption'
One Wilshire, the most wired carrier hotel in Los Angeles, "experienced a disruption" July 13 in one of its electrical distribution systems, according to landlord CRG West. A post on the NANOG list indicates the issue occurred on the 12th floor. "The building’s backup generators came online without delay and ensured the uninterrupted delivery of power to essential building services and to the building’s community of communications service providers," CRG West said in a statement to tenants (available on the CRG web site as a Word doc).
"No injuries were sustained related to the disruption and the disruption was isolated to a small area within the building," CRG West said. "However, as a precaution the fire department requested that the building not open for full occupancy on Friday July 14. Following extensive review, tenant access to the building was restored Friday evening July 14."
Posted by Rich Miller July 26, 2006 | Permalink | Newsletter
July 25, 2006
Israeli Firms Shopping for U.S. Colo Space
Colocation broker COLOTRAQ says it has seen a sharp increase in inquiries from Israeli businesses in the past two weeks, prompted by a rise in regional violence. "Since the commencement of hostilities against Hezbollah in Lebanon nine days ago, the number of searches initiated from Israel has already equaled that of the first six months of 2006," Colotraq said in a press release.
"Unstable political environments are just another threat that business leaders need to plan for," said Dany Bouchedid, CEO of COLOTRAQ. "It’s only natural and prudent that the tragic events in the Middle East bring such concerns to our attention."
The violent confrontation between Israeli and Hezbollah has featured a steady stream of rocket attacks on cities in northern Israel. The port city of Haifa, one of the primary targets for attacks by Katyusha rockets, is home to numerous technology companies, with Intel, Microsoft, HP and Philips Electronics maintaining offices in or near the city.
Posted by Rich Miller July 25, 2006 | Permalink | Newsletter
Rising Colo Prices Help SAVVIS Results
SAVVIS Communications is raising its colocation prices for existing customers, boosting its earnings by about $1.5 million per quarter, the company said last week during its second quarter conference call with analysts.
SAVVIS CEO Phil Koen said colo contracts for new customers are averaging $50 per square foot of space, while the rate for SAVVIS' existing customers averages around $25 a square foot. "We are repricing those below-market contracts as they come up for renewal," Koen said. "We won't be surprised if some customers choose to move their equipment in-house or choose another provider. However, given today's environment, we don't believe quality data center space will remain empty for long."
Posted by Rich Miller July 25, 2006 | Permalink | Newsletter
Carrier hotel operator CRG West has added the Miami Exchange to its growing portfolio of data centers. The building, located at 2115 NW 22nd St. in Miami, covers 48,000 square feet and provides finished data center space for carriers, VOIP, CLEC, and enterpise customers. The facility was initially built by Williams Communications in 200-2001. No purchase price was announced.
CRG West is part of the huge private investment firm The Carlyle Group, and owns and operates the One Wilshire Building in Los Angeles, Market Post Tower in San Jose, and the 1275 K Street carrier hotel in Washington, D.C.
Posted by Rich Miller July 25, 2006 | Permalink | Newsletter
July 24, 2006
MySpace Outage Blamed on Data Center
Popular social networking hub MySpace was offline for hours last night and is blaming the downtime on a power outage in its Los Angeles data center. MySpace's Los Angeles equipment is housed at the new Equinix facility in El Segundo. But comments at GigaOm indicate that other customers of Equinix remained online last night. Digg also has equipment at El Segundo and experienced no problems, although it appears to serve most of its content from its San Francisco data center.
For those curious about the backend driving the MySpace site, there's an explainer at How Stuff Works.
Posted by Rich Miller July 24, 2006 | Permalink | Newsletter
July 23, 2006
Honda Plans Data Center in Colorado
Honda will spend $20 million to build a 60,000 square foot data center in Longmont, Colo., the Longmont Area Economic Council said Friday. Honda has purchased 11 acres of land at the Boulder County Business Center at 1601 Dry Creek Drive in Longmont to house a Tier 3 data center.
Honda chose the site because Northern Colorado is less susceptible to natural disasters than other areas with adequate power supplies, according to John Cody, president and CEO of the Longmont Area Economic Council, who said the local work force also has strong information technology skills.
Posted by Rich Miller July 23, 2006 | Permalink | Newsletter
MORE STORIES FROM THIS MONTH:
- Internap Expands with Toronto PNAP
- Peak 10 Opens Second Charlotte Data Center
- Digital Realty Buys Phoenix Internet Gateway
- LiquidWeb Opens Michigan Data Center
- Telehouse Internet Exchanges See Growth
- One Wilshire Upgrades Power After 'Disruption'
- Israeli Firms Shopping for U.S. Colo Space
- Rising Colo Prices Help SAVVIS Results
- CRG West Buys Miami Exchange
- MySpace Outage Blamed on Data Center
- Honda Plans Data Center in Colorado
- SAVVIS Nets $36M on Dallas Sale-Leaseback
- Google Data Center Spending to Accelerate