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Monday, January 7th, 2013
- DCIS (Data Center Infrastructure Specialist) Certification, Jan. 28-29
- DCOS (Data Center Operations Specialist) Certification, Jan. 30, 31, & Feb. 1
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| 12:58p | 451 Group Adds Yankee Group, Kevin Heslin The 451 Group, the parent organization of the Uptime Institute, has acquired the Yankee Group from Alta Communications, a Boston private equity firm. Separately, 451 Research has hired Kevin Heslin as a Research Manager. Heslin had been the editor of Mission Critical magazine, a publication covering the data center industry. Yankee Group provides research coverage of emerging IT and communications technologies and markets. In recent years it has focused on the mobile device market, where it foresees a “mobility revolution” that it forecasts to be a $3 trillion market opportunity by 2016. “We are delighted to welcome the Yankee Group team to join me and the 200+ current professionals here at The 451 Group,” said 451 Group Chairman Martin McCarthy. “For over four decades, the insights of Yankee Group have served the telecommunications industry and, more recently, the emergent mobility marketplace. Mobility is a huge driver of innovation in business and technology markets globally. Its impact in the evolving enterprise and broader consumer IT marketplaces will fundamentally shape the future expansion and strategy of Digital Infrastructure. “With Yankee Group, we see an exciting opportunity to significantly extend The 451 Group’s focus on the evolution of Digital Infrastructure,” McCarthy continued. “Yankee Group supports our operating philosophy of long-term, sustainable, profitable, global growth.” Yankee Group will operate as an independent division of The 451 Group. “The support and resources of The 451 Group as a strategic owner will enable Yankee Group to deepen our focus on key themes driving the mobile ecosystem – including mobile money, mobile and connected devices, mobile applications and cloud, mobile broadband and mobile leadership – and to dramatically expand our new Mobile Advisory and Planning Services (MAPS) platform,”said Yankee Group CEO Terry Waters. Heslin had been an editor with BNP Media for 13 years, and spent much of that time as editor of Mission Critical. 451 Research includes the former Tier 1 Research operation, and tracks the data center service provider market. DCK’s Rich Miller contributed to this article. |
| 1:20p | Active Power Announces 11MW Flywheel Deal  An Active Power PowerHouse unit providing containerized power infrastructure, including its flywheel UPS. Active Power has received a multimillion dollar purchase order for its flywheel-based CleanSource UPS systems. The systems, which total nearly 11 megawatts of UPS capacity, are slated for deployment at a data center owned by “one of the world’s leading internet search firms” at a data center facility in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Austin, Texas company did not identify the end user, but said it was a company that has previously deployed Active Power equipment. Yahoo is the only web-scale search provider known to use flywheels in its data centers, suggesting that Yahoo has begun additional expansion at its data center campus in Quincy, Washington. Active Power specializes in flywheel power technology. A flywheel is a spinning cylinder that generates power from kinetic energy, continuing to spin when grid power is interrupted. In most data centers, the UPS system draws power from a bank of large batteries to provide “ride-through” electricity to keep servers online until the diesel generator can start up and begin powering the facility. “The combined benefits of our power density, reliability, and total cost of ownership (TCO) are unmatched in the market,” said Martin Olsen, vice president, Global Sales, at Active Power. “CleanSource UPS delivers significant TCO savings to the customer’s bottom line, (and) provides energy efficiencies of up to 98 percent at full load. Put simply, we are enabling global innovators like this end user to achieve their most forward thinking data center designs.” |
| 1:30p | London Data Exchange Powered By Renewable Energy London-based colocation provider London Data Exchange (LDeX) announced that it has signed contracts with a new energy supplier to deliver 100 percent renewable energy to its North West London data center, LDeX1. “LDeX’s 3 year road map was to operate our data centres on 100% renewable energy. To do this within LDeX1’s first year of operation is something we are very proud of,” said Robin Garbutt, LDeX CEO. “In an age where energy costs are rising and mounting pressure is put on businesses to take their impact on the environment seriously, we feel we have hit a sensible balance in committing to renewable energy in 2013.“ In addition, LDeX is one of a small number of data centre operators in the UK to have achieved the ISO50001 standard for Energy Management. The ISO50001 standard recognises a responsible approach to energy usage by organisations that pro-actively minimise their energy wastage by instilling responsible energy management processes and monitoring into their organisations. “Switching to 100% renewable energy is the latest in a string of environmentally responsible initiatives undertaken at LDeX to reduce our environmental impact,” said Garbutt. “Using 100% renewable energy ensures that we receive all our energy from 100% renewable energy sources and the ISO50001 guidelines guarantee that we maximise all energy sourced, minimising wastage and any resulting unnecessary CO2 emissions.” |
| 1:37p | Apple Hiring Data Center Engineers Apple is continuing to hire staff for its data center operations, with positions available at current and future locations in North Carolina, Oregon, California sites in Newark and Santa Clara, and a new data center under construction in Reno, Nevada. The current openings include a position for a Data Center Site Services Manager in Maiden, N.C. and a Data Center Chief Operating Engineer in Newark. Positions call for “familiarity with Apple’s Hardware Environment,” which includes equipment from Apple, IBM pSeries and xSeries, Sun, HP, Datadomain, NetApp, Teradata, IBM storage. The hiring is part of a broad expansion of Apple’s Internet infrastructure, which includes existing sites in Maiden and Prineville, Oregon and the new project in Reno. The new facilities support Apple’s iTunes Store, App Store and iCloud services. |
| 6:59p | Data Center CertificationTraining TechXact, a provider of Data Center Certification classes, announced the IDCA Training and Certification Seminar for Data Center Operations Management (DCOM) will be held January 28-February 1 at Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino. IDCA Training Seminars are data center training programs that are held worldwide, specifically designed for Executives, CIOs, CTOs, ICT and Data Center Managers, Consultants, Senior Operators, Project Managers, Engineers, Designers & Planners, focusing on the fundamentals as well as essentials in order to evaluate, design, build, and manage advanced data centers at the optimum efficiency, and cost effectiveness. Three Certificates are awarded during the five-day program: Additionally, upon successful completion of the two courses, automatically a third certificate DCOM (Data Center Operations Management), will be issued. All courses include examination and certification, while the materials cover building Architecture, Construction, Power & Cooling Infrastructure, Security, Telecom, EMS/BMS, IT/ICT, Policies, Procedures, Standardization, Operations Management, and much more based on TIA, ISO, UN and EU standards and latest best practices. The foundation of courses are based on principal international standards such as ANSI/TIA-942, ANSI/TIA-606, ITIL, NFPA 75-2001, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning (ASHRAE), IDCA Principles & Guidelines (IDCAPG), the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), the Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA), Building Industry Consulting Service International (BICSI) and many other latest industry standards and best practices, enhanced with hands-on proficiency of industry experts. Note: Special discount may apply to Government, Educational Institutes, Healthcare and Groups. Candidates requiring bookings must notify TechXact about their requested number of seats at the earliest. For more events, return to the Data Center Knowledge Events Calendar. |
| 7:20p | OpenStack Summit Spring 2013 The Spring 2013 OpenStack Summit will be held in Portland, April 15-18, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR. Expected attendance will be 2,000 OpenStack users, prospective users, ecosystem members and developers. A variety of content and tracks, ranging from compelling user stories and technical deep dives to the business case for OpenStack and hands-on workshops, will be offered. Call for ContentIf you’d like to submit a presentation, panel or workshop, the call for speakers is now open and will close February 15. If you are interested in submitting a session for the Design Summit, which is a special track planning the development work to be implemented in the “H” release, there will be a separate system opening closer to the Grizzly feature freeze and closing after the Grizzly release in April. Registration is not yet open, but the OpenStack site has more details on the event. VenueOregon Convention Center For more events, return to the Data Center Knowledge Events Calendar. |
| 8:14p | Best of the Data Center Blogs for Jan. 7 Here’s a roundup of some interesting items we came across this week in our reading of data center industry blogs. No Man is an Island and Neither is a Data Center - At Data Center Pulse, Mark Thiele looks at location in a post-Sandy world: “Is it safe to build a data center anywhere along the coast? Can you really protect the availability or accessibility of your systems in the face of hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters? Just because you’ve built a solid structure, doesn’t mean you can guarantee accessibility and your data center is nothing without connections.” Could VMware Beat Amazon in the Cloud? - CloudVelocity’s Greg Ness looks at VMware’s opportunity: “2013 promises to be a watershed year for several tech companies, from VMware, Cisco, Juniper, and Amazon to a wide range of service providers who have been traditionally viewed as niche or segment specialists. Let’s start with VMware, who perhaps fueled the march toward software and service-defined IT.” The Five Tool Player: Service Provider Financial Considerations - At Compass Points, Chris Crosby discusses new market entrants and what they need to know. “Few of us spend our youth dreaming of the day that we can become a data center provider or operator—I wanted to be a secret agent—but as we get older things change and new opportunities open up to us. Lately it seems like more and more folks are looking to embrace these new opportunities and become data center providers.” All Computing Isn’t Equal: Here are the Four Types – At GigaOm, Stacey Higginbotham looks at the segmentation in the server market: “The world of data centers, servers and networking cables looks pretty monolithic to most people, but like Darwin’s finches, when you spend time talking to users you realize that they have evolved into different creatures. And because the types of machines and software that enterprise customers buy are very different from what Amazon might purchase to run its cloud, it’s worth it to understand the differences if you’re buying from, selling to or investing in infrastructure companies.” Level 3 Awaits Its 2013 Sunrise - Rob Powell at Telecom Ramblings, who has been tracking Level 3 for years, provides an update: “The most important change this year for Level 3 will simply be the flexibility they gain by not having a debt load that is so outsized compared to their operations as to distort their decisions. When you’re making a profit despite the debt, which they should start doing by summertime, you simply have more options to generate the growth that everyone is expecting. And only growth can turn those incremental margins they have been pointing to for a decade into real money.” |
| 8:19p | Western WiMAX PoPs up in Phoenix NAP  The exterior of the Phoenix NAP data center. Western WiMAX has established a point of presence (PoP) in the Phoenix NAP data center, the companies said today. The wireless telecommunication carrier is offering high capacity, SLA-based services to businesses in the Phoenix metro area out of the location, including Voice over IP, video, Internet and private line MPLS services such as Metro Ethernet services. “We are thrilled with the addition of Western WiMAX to our data center,” said Ian McClarty, president of Phoenix NAP. “Western WiMAX’s wide array of systems and solutions will provide high-capacity and high reliability services. We couldn’t be more excited to welcome them and look forward to the valuable new opportunities this will bring both Western WiMAX and Phoenix NAP.” “Western is pleased to partner with Phoenix NAP in providing Phoenix businesses with alternative carrier connectivity and strategic data center access,” said Timothy Shea, Chief Technology Officer of Western WiMAX. “As wireless moves to the forefront of not just secondary connectivity, a common disaster recovery strategy, but that of primary connectivity due to its reliability and consistent performance, Western is well positioned with its private Phoenix network to address the most complicated of business requirements,” said Timothy Shea, chief technology officer of Western WiMAX LLC. Phoenix NAP is a PCI DSS Validated Service Provider and a SOC Type 2 audited facility. Other recent customer wins include Trigon Technology, a technology management company and CourseAssign, an e-Learning platform provider. Western WiMAX is another strong win locally for the company. The company also has a strong international customer base, as indicated by a geographic expansion via a PoP in Amsterdam last August. A number of these international customers are using the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform it launched last year from its data center in Phoenix. |
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