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Racing Pioneer McLaren Teams With IO to Turbo-Charge Data Center Efficiency  George Slessman, CEO and Product Architect of IO (at left) meets with Dr. Geoff McGrath, Managing Director of McLaren Applied Technologies, to discuss the design and engineering collaboration between the two organizations. (Photo: IO)
Perhaps nothing is designed quite as meticulously as a Formula 1 race car. Every inch, every part counts; it’s a world where efficiency in design is the driving force. IO wants to apply this philosophy to the data center.
It’s for this reason IO is forming a partnership with McLaren Applied Technologies (MAT) to help develop the next generation of energy efficient data centers. MAT has extensive Formula 1 experience, and it will apply this intelligence to the data center in a unique partnership.
MAT will apply its expertise in performance management systems, simulation and high performance engineering, to help improve the design and operation of future data centers and reduce energy consumption. McLaren’s position as the global leader in sophisticated software and hardware integration was a primary driver (rim-shot) for IO. The company’s ability to deliver performance breakthroughs on track and via hi-tech simulation has informed the roadmap for IO, with regard to its IO.Anywhere modular data centers and IO.OS data center operating system software.
“Anyone who has seen a Formula 1 race knows that McLaren is unrivaled when it comes to integrating outstanding software with the hardware built to receive it,” said Kevin Malik, IO CIO and GM of IO Labs. “We are extremely excited about this partnership and its potential to yield substantial advances in the telemetry, visibility, and analytics of IO data center technology. Our companies speak the same language and the insights gained from this collaboration will be invaluable to the data center space.”
Improving the Aerodynamics of the Data Center
The same way MAT has improved aerodynamics of cars, it will help improve the “aerodynamics” of the data center to cut the energy used in cooling. The partnership will use advanced analytics to model patterns of data usage, optimize data center operations and reduce energy usage. It will apply simulation technology to further improve resilience to seismic events on data centers.
The partnership was announced at the Innovation Forum in Singapore, home to MAT’s headquarters for the AsiaPac region.
“Data centers are integral to all our lives,” said Geoff McGrath, Managing Director of McLaren Applied Technologies, at the event. “However, as the amount of information we collect, process and store continues to grow, the demand for energy will also increase. Our partnership with IO will enable us to utilize our unique expertise in performance management, simulation and high performance design to make a real difference to this global energy challenge.”
IO is thinking outside the box here. “IO is already the world leader in the development of cutting edge data center technology and systems, McLaren said at the Forum. “ However, they have challenged themselves and McLaren to think differently and to identify ways to improve efficiency, to cut energy usage and reduce emissions.”
IO recently announced its first international data center in Singapore, as part of its work with anchor client Goldman Sachs. Earlier this week George Slessman, the CEO of IO, tweeted a photo of the first IO modules arriving in Singapore:
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The Efficiency Gap: Can Server Huggers Shift to the Cloud?  Urs Hoelzle, Google’s Senior VP for Technical Infrastructure, opens the “How Green is the Internet?” Conference Thursday at Google’s campus in Mountain View, Calif. (Photo: Rich Miller)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - How do you further reduce the environmental impact of data centers? Close the growing efficiency gap between the ultra-efficient server farms operated by cloud builders and the energy-wasting IT closets inside server-hugging businesses.
That was the bottom line in a wide-ranging discussion Thursday at “How Green is the Internet,” a conference convened by Google to brainstorm ways to reduce the impact of Internet technology on the emission of green house gases.
Data centers got their share of attention, especially when former vice president Al Gore blasted the continuing use of lead acid batteries and diesel generators to provide emergency power to keep servers online. “That really cannot continue,” said Gore, the event’s keynote speaker.
Focus on Networks, Mobile Devices
But much of the discussion went beyond the data center, focusing on the environmental impact of wireless networks, digital delivery of music and video, and the “rebound effect” in which advances in mobile devices and Internet services may actually boost activities that generate green house gases.
Several speakers said that the data center industry’s largest companies have made huge strides in making their facilities more efficient, adopting designs that slash the amount of energy needed to power and cool their servers.
“Large data centers are the easiest part to solve, because their activity is concentrated,” said Urs Hoelzle, Senior Vice President of Technical Infrastructure for Google. “Most mid-range and small data centers are not efficient.”
Several speakers pointed to this efficiency gap as a way to capture huge energy savings and reduce the industry’s green house gas emissions. Eric Masanet, an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, said that shifting workloads to cloud platforms could slash corporate data centers’ energy impact by up to 85 percent.
“A shift to the cloud, moving from inefficient data centers to highly-efficient data centers, will save a lot of energy,” said Masanet.
Best Practices Known, But Not Always Embraced
But while that math works well on paper, it is difficult in the real world.
Jon Koomey, a research fellow at Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, said the solutions are known, but not widely implemented.
“There are huge inefficiencies in in-house data centers,” said Koomey. “Just adapting best practices will save 50 percent of the energy being used. We know how to do this. The impediments are institutional, not technical.”
Hoelzle agreed. “The inefficiency has persisted over decades, so there’s not much reason to believe these (in-house data centers) will improve much.”
The better solution, Hoelzle argued, was to shut down these inefficient data centers and IT closets and replace them entirely with cloud computing and online services.
“Many startups in Silicon Valley operate entirely on the cloud and online services,” said Hoelzle. “They don’t want an IT staff.”
Does Hybrid Help or Hinder?
That’s been a harder sell for corporate users, many of whom are wary of putting data in the cloud because of anxieties about security and compliance issues. To address that concern, many vendors and service providers are focusing on “hybrid” cloud offerings that split infrastructure between the public cloud and in-house data centers – which boosts cloud adoption, but may do little to improve the efficiency of the corporate data center.
Hoelzle says the greatest opportunity for cloud-driven savings will be found among small businesses, who represent roughly a third of total data center usage.
“You’ll see most of the replacement happen first on the small business end,” said Hoelzle. “You can imagine having no local infrastructure, because you use public cloud and services for everything else. You’ll see millions of businesses that have no IT themselves aside from their Internet uplink.” | | 1:15p |
Highlights from Google’s Internet Summit  At yesterday’s “How Green is the Internet?” conference, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt shared anecdotes about the benefits of Internet services in the emerging world, citing his experiences in travels to Pakistan, southern Sudan and China. (Photo: Rich Miller)
About 150 scholars, executives and environmental activists gathered at Google’s campus in Mountain View, Calif. Thursday for the “How Green is the Internet?” conference, which examined the environmental impact of data centers, networks, mobile devices and the emerging “Internet of Things.” Our photo feature, Conference Highlights: How Green is the Internet? provides a look at some of the key sessions and discussions. | | 2:00p |
Schneider Electric Boosts Partner Programs for EcoStruxure Schneider Electric has several announcements out of its Xperience Efficiency event this week. It announced the EcoStructuxure Alliances Program, launched a new building analytics offering, was recognized by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, and announced a joint venture agreement with National Technical Information Service (NTIS).
The company announced the EcoStruxure Alliances Program, a program enabling partner integrations into the EcoStruxure architecture to bring intelligent energy management to mutual customers, drive multi-vendor standardization for better system performance, and accelerate time to deployment making energy management faster and more accurate.
“The energy dilemma facing our world is massive, and our best hope for solving it for future generations is through partnerships with other like-minded, innovative companies,” said Aaron Davis, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Schneider Electric. “Through our partnerships and the resulting integrations into the EcoStruxure architecture, we can bring intelligent energy management to our mutual customers, drive multi-vendor standardization for better system performance, and accelerate time to deployment making energy management faster and more
accurate.”
New Building Analytics Offering
Schneider Electric announced the launch of its Building Analytics, which helps building owners and facility managers to continuously monitor and analyzes real-time data. The tool gathers historical trending from building sensors, control systems and utility meters, all pulled from the Building Management System (BMS). It helps identify building operation deficiencies and generate reports, providing cost and energy saving opportunities prioritized by impact on energy use, cost savings and tenant comfort. It also documents performance measurement and verification for aware programs such as LEED and utility incentives.
“Advanced services are crucial in assisting organizations with maximizing the efficiency of their buildings, especially as they continue to face challenges with finding quality personnel equipped with the knowledge to analyze complex building data,” said Zachary Rotello, director of facility services and solutions, Alpha Controls & Services. “Schneider Electric’s Building Analytics empowers our customers with its ease of use, ability to quickly drill down to the root causes of energy inefficiencies and assist them in solving problems in an efficient manner.”
Building Analytics is part of a suite of advanced life-cycle services, combining expert guidance and servers, powerful extended data analytics, and cloud storage for optimal building performance.
Joint Venture with NTIS Announced
NTIS is the largest central resource for government-funded information to offer energy monitoring and related services, energy consulting, energy audits, and turnkey energy projects to the U.S. Government agencies. The agreement provides easy access for federal agencies seeking commercial energy management solutions via a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or Interagency Agreement (IAA) with NTIS.
“For federal agencies seeking energy management systems, the traditional process, which can take upwards of a year, can present difficulties in terms of meeting requirements to collect, monitor and baseline energy consumption information,” said Jim Plourde, national business deployment manager for Schneider Electric. “Under this agreement, Schneider Electric and NTIS are creating streamlined and efficient processes that will drastically shorten this cycle to ultimately help federal agencies meet energy policy requirements while increasing sustainability. These customized and secure energy management programs under the joint venture are truly a win-win for federal agencies.”
U.S. DOE Recognizes Schneider for Better Buildings Challenge</p>
Schneider Electric was recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy for its outstanding performance in the Better Buildings Challenge, a program launched by President Obama in 2011 to reduce energy use in buildings across the U.S. Schneider Electric’s energy intensity was reduced by 15.6 percent over three years, easily beating the DOE goal of 7.5 percent.
Schneider Electric conducted energy assessments at all its locations and then used its own products and services to install building automation, renewable energy, energy-efficient lighting, automated lighting control, energy metering and remote monitoring, and variable speed drives. Plans to meet future energy reduction goals include expanded integration of the company’s products and services, continuous re-commissioning, and more renewable energy.
“As a key part of the value proposition we offer to customers, reducing energy use within our own facilities is extremely important to Schneider Electric from both a business and sustainability standpoint,” said Chris Curtis, president and CEO, North America, Schneider Electric. “The results of the Better Plants Challenge to date point to what is possible today for businesses of all types in curbing their energy use – contributing to their own bottom line as well as positively influencing the energy future in the U.S.”
StruxureWare for Water
Schneider Electric launched StruxureWare for Water offer, a unique application of StruxureWare software that gives full visibility into energy use and operations across the water cycle. This allows water managers to gather various data points about how energy is being used to move and manage water across a broad geographic area, and then turns that data into actionable insights to help managers use energy and water more effectively.
The company has partnered with Alarm.com, the leader in interactive security and connected home services, to bring Schneider Electric’s Wiser home management system to a broader audience of home builders, contractors, utilities and other service providers in the energy efficiency space.
It also announced that Energy University surpassed 350,000 users of Schneider Electric’s signature industry education initiative, which has provided energy efficiency courses to professionals in 165 countries and 12 languages since 2006. More than 500,000 courses have been taken since the inception of Energy University and the program features more than 20 global industry association endorsements. | | 3:05p |
Driving Business Success through ‘Open Group Architecture’ Framework Edward Jones is a technical writer for a provider of TOGAF 9.1 certification, Firebrand Training. Edward writes on a number of IT related topics including how to guides, industry trends plus the latest news and reviews.
 ED JONES
Firebrand Training
Because business in the modern world has never been more competitive, a focus on global communications and the need to streamline current operational practices, effective and efficient business operations are tantamount to success, or perhaps even survival. The importance of translating business vision and strategic templates into reality has never been greater, so the proper implementation of a means to manage such goals has become a requirement for many organisations. Thus, the adoption of an effective model for enterprise architecture should be a concern for small and large enterprises alike.
If you are unfamiliar with the practice of enterprise architecture, it is perhaps time we bring you up to speed for the sake of your business. Enterprise architecture is the practice of aligning technology and business strategy to achieve company goals and promote development of the organisation. Enterprise architecture is applied using a “framework”, which defines the structure, views and objects of said architecture.
As there are many existing frameworks to choose from, in and of itself the process may appear quite daunting. However, one of the most widely utilised systems currently available is called TOGAF, which stands for The Open Group Architecture Framework. Let’s first define the unique characteristics of this framework and then examine a few of the key reasons why it has become one of the most popular choices for internal information management.
What is TOGAF?
TOGAF is an acronym for The Open Group Architecture Framework. This architecture is centered on the domains of business, data, application and technology. Like any framework, the goal of TOGAF is to improve a company’s approaches to planning, enacting and governing an internal information structure and therefore expediting the dissemination of information within this organisation. TOGAF incorporates such factors as:
- Providing a common business vocabulary
- Incorporating a list of operational standards
- Providing a set of tools to be used inter-departmentally
- Supplying the “building blocks” for effective information management
While TOGAF meets the requirements for any current enterprise’s architecture methodology, there are some unique aspects of this service which make it the framework of choice for a multitude of businesses.
The Benefits of TOGAF
As mentioned earlier, there are numerous current frameworks within the information architecture industry, therefore defining the correct choice may be difficult. This is especially true when taking into account any budgetary concerns. Although the merits of each of these operating systems cannot be denied, what makes TOGAF specifically desirable is that it is built on open-source standards. This allows companies to utilise this framework for free. As the principle of lean operations comes to the forefront of many business models during these trying economic times, this aspect alone makes TOGAF a very attractive choice as opposed to proprietary systems, which come at a cost.
Another aspect not to be ignored is the scope of operations and support that TOGAF enjoys. As open-source software, the user community, which supports and shapes current paradigms, is robust. This addresses one of the most common flaws of enterprise architecture to-date; the inability to acquire qualified personnel who are cognisant of how a specific company performs its operations. Hence, these support levels are unrivalled in the industry.
Additionally, this framework has been steadily evolving since the mid 1990′s. This allows the system to have incorporated all of the most effective practices that have proven their viability over time while having excised those which have not given the optimum results. Other frameworks may still be experimenting with different or yet-to-be-proven methodologies; with TOGAF you have a documented history of success and therefore confidence in application.
More on the next page | | 3:41p |
Fusion-io Accelerates Spotify Databases Fusion-io powers the flash storage behind online music provider Spotify’s database, Calxeda and Foxconn partner for storage appliances, and Xyratex adds professional services across its HPC storage solutions.
Fusion-io accelerates Spotify. Fusion-io (FIO) announced that it is accelerating the music databases of global online music leader, Spotify. Spotify uses the Fusion-io Memory platform to accelerate its applications and the open source Apache Cassandra database that powers the Spotify music platform. Spotify and Fusion-io are presenting on accelerating Apache Cassandra databases at the Apache Cassandra Summit next week in San Francisco.
“Today’s listeners expect to be able to access music instantaneously on any device, and Spotify’s powerful database is essential to quickly serving up tracks while promoting new music discovery,” said Gary Orenstein, Fusion-io Senior Vice President of Products. “The Spotify database team will continue to deliver on high customer expectations for millions of users worldwide with Fusion ioMemory, which is uniquely designed as a platform for application acceleration.”
Calxeda and Foxconn partner. Calxeda announced the results of its development partnership with Foxconn, the multinational electronics manufacturing company based in Taiwan. Foxconn worked as a beta development partner of Calxeda with the mutual goal of drastically improving data center total cost of ownership, increasing storage density and delivering a family of production-ready, workload-optimized Calxeda EnergyCore-based systems. The two companies set out to build storage-optimized servers based on Calxeda EnergyCore processors. The result is an EnergyCore-powered Foxconn 4U storage appliance includes 60 3.5” hard drives slots (for up to 240 TB of storage), 12 EnergyCore compute nodes and a total of 100 Gbps of external bandwidth realized by four 10 Gbps uplinks and six 10 Gbps chassis-to-chassis interconnects.
“We are pleased to have a design and manufacturing relationship with Foxconn to showcase the value proposition of Calxeda’s ARM-based EnergyCore and integrated fabric switch in a highly-optimized storage appliance,” said Bob Baughman, Vice President of Sales, Calxeda. “Foxconn is a global leader in manufacturing with full ranges of knowledge, expertise and experience and we are proud they see such promise and future in Calxeda’s technology as a solution for their large network of customers.”
Xyratex launches ClusterStor Services. Data storage technology company Xyratex (XRTX) announced the creation of its new ClusterStor Professional Services capability. This new team of highly skilled service and technology professionals will be responsible for helping partners and end users capture and execute on their storage requirements to best match their most demanding application needs. These professionals will perform customer requirement gathering, controlled installation and evaluation of personalized solutions, training programs, and advanced services that include complex solution design and integration, client deployments,data migration and more.
“Our mission for ClusterStor Professional Services is to accelerate the time to results for our users and partners across verticals and geographies, and help them realize value sooner from their investment in HPC storage technology,” said Simon Johnson, senior director of ClusterStor Professional Services at Xyratex. “Our team has a deep pedigree in value-added services, Lustre file systems and data storage, and our ClusterStor solutions have achieved tremendous market adoption in a short time. Combined, this experience enables us to bring additional integrated solution value and efficiency to solve our clients’ challenges and further exploit the best-in-class performance that our technology delivers.”
For more updates on the storage industry, visit our Storage channel. | | 5:38p |
Friday Funny: What’s the Best Caption for “Seeing the Light”? It’s Friday! You know what that means — it’s time for our Friday Funny caption contest here at Data Center Knowledge. Please take a moment to vote for the best caption for the Seeing the Light cartoon.
On Fridays, Data Center Knowledge features a cartoon drawn by Diane Alber, our fav data center cartoonist, and our readers suggest funny captions. Last week, we had lots of entries! Scroll down and vote for the best.
Our contest works like this: We provide the cartoon and you, our readers, submit the captions. We then choose finalists and the readers vote for their favorite funniest suggestion. Please vote below.
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Please visit Diane’s website Kip and Gary for more of her data center humor. For the previous cartoons on DCK, see our Humor Channel | | 5:50p |
Compuware Releases PureStack Analytics For Infrastructure and End User  PureStack reveals the impact of infrastructure health on application performance and end-user experience.
Compuware announced the release of PureStack, what it is calling the next generation of Application Performance Management (APM). Purestack correlates guest and host infrastructure health to individual application transaction and affected end users in real-time. It allows application operators to quickly gauge the impact of infrastructure problems for both infrastructure and end users in order to expose how IT infrastructure conditions impede the performance of critical business applications.
“We’ve connected application monitoring and the infrastructure health into a single correlated view,” said Kieran Taylor, Director of Product Marketing. “Historically, monitoring application and infrastructure required two different sets of tools, this is a single pane of glass”
PureStack compliments Purepath in that a user is now able to go down into infrastructure health metrics. Combined with Compuware’s dynaTrace PurePath Technology, PureStack Technology directly correlates guest and host infrastructure health to individual application transactions and affected end users in real-time. “With the current set of tools on the market, they’re siloed,” said Taylor. “In the case of infrastructure monitoring solutions, they look at infrastructure in a high level way. They don’t break down on a per user or per transaction kind of way.”
“With PureStack, Compuware is significantly extending the depth and range of its APM solutions,” said Tim Grieser, Program Vice President of Enterprise System Management Software at IDC. “Real-time cross-correlation of end-to-end transaction details with system and application health metrics, improves both the ability to understand the business impact of performance issues on end-users and provides extended information for faster root cause analysis.”
PureStack Technology automatically discovers, maps and collects critical system and infrastructure health information along the infrastructure “stack” including hypervisor, operating system, storage, process and CPU. This infrastructure health information is tied directly to each PurePath, which contains cross tier transaction detail, including end-user and code-level context. Together, PureStack and PurePath provide a three-dimensional view of how infrastructure health impacts application performance and availability.
“When evaluating cloud providers, understanding how the virtual infrastructure affects application performance is critical,” said David Snyder, Enterprise Architect at American Greetings Interactive. “The PureStack technology is a huge time-saver, offering a single view for all the data we need to monitor these less predictable environments and deliver a great experience for our customers.”
Compuware APM powered by PureStack Technology offers:
- Smarter APM with Easy Infrastructure Monitoring: The first and only APM solution that monitors all key infrastructure metrics and automatically correlates their impact on individual transactions and end users with 100 percent visibility into all transactions 24/7—from the end user, across all tiers to the database and back, in the most demanding production environments. Compuware APM’s unique and unified agent technology automatically detects and maps infrastructure to applications without manual configuration.
- Three-Dimensional Root-Cause Analysis: PureStack uniquely complements PurePath Technology to deliver enhanced out-of-the box transaction flow and infrastructure views that provides operators detailed and highly accurate insights never before possible:
- Top-down Dependency Analysis: PureStack provides exact detail on all infrastructure components including CPU, memory, disk, I/O and other metrics that are necessary to answer a single user request. Even interfering processes not related to the request are discovered.
- Bottom-up Impact Analysis: PureStack shows every single user request as well as all categories of user requests across applications and business transactions that use a specific infrastructure component.
- Session Recordings Eliminates Need to Replicate Problems: Every transaction is recorded along with all system health metrics, and can be “played back” when a performance problem is detected.
- Heterogeneous Infrastructure Support: Unmatched breadth of support across all major operating systems including: Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris and HPUX. Hypervisors, including VMware and Xen are auto-detected, even in cloud environments. Amazon and Windows Azure public cloud are also supported. Broad environment support covers Java, .Net, PHP, Apache/IIS, big data, database access, C/C++, Message Broker, MQ and mainframe applications.
“While our competitors struggle to get beyond their sampling and averaging constraints to catch up to our industry-leading PurePath Technology, we have innovated again with PureStack,” said Bernd Greifeneder, CTO of Compuware’s APM business unit. “By combining these two powerful technologies, we now provide the industry’s first 3D application and infrastructure topology model with the exact link between every transaction and its guest and host infrastructure. IT application management analytics will never be the same again.” | | 6:00p |
Switch Unveils New SuperNAP 8 in Las Vegas  A cross section of the new SuperNAP 8 in Las Vegas, describing several of the facility’s design innovations. Click the image to see a larger version. (Image: Switch)
The new SuperNAP is here. And like the original SuperNAP, a huge Las Vegas data center that debuted in 2009, the new SuperNAP 8 includes a number of design innovations. These include a double-reinforced roof, an updated rack containment system that incorporates thermal storage, and a refinement to its custom cooling units to add an on-board backup power system.
Switch, the Las Vegas colocation provider that has developed the SuperNAPs, says the new design elements will enable “unparalleled capacity and density levels” and make SuperNAP 8 one of the most advanced data centers in the world.
“It is our mission at Switch to solve problems, develop smart systems and think beyond tomorrow for the benefit of our clients, and SuperNAP 8 is a direct result of this mission,” said Ron Roy, the CEO and founder of Switch.
Campus Capacity of 20,000 Cabinets
SuperNAP 8 is part of a multi-phase expansion announced by Switch in 2011, which will include at least one more data center on its current Las Vegas campus. The company says the new facility provides capacity for Switch to house up to 20,000 cabinets on its campus, with capacity of up to 200 megawatts of power. The company has also announced plans to develop a campus in North Las Vegas.
Switch hosts more than 600 customers in its seven data centers in Las Vegas, including the 400,000 square foot SuperNAP, now known as SuperNAP 7.
Switch has created its own custom infrastructure, designed and patented by Roy, which includes a high-density airflow containment system known as T-SCIF and custom cooling units which can switch between four different types of cooling based on outside conditions. SuperNAP 8 introduces new features on both these components, building in additional protection for customer equipment in the event of a power failure or a major storm.
- The T-SCIF units in SuperNAP 8 include a temperature control system known as Iron Black Forest. “The steel infrastructure matrix that supports the T-SCIF system radiates cold stored thermal energy that intentionally allows for the facility to achieve HVAC resiliency ratings above elite industry standards,” Switch says.
- Switch has also introduced Rotofly, an expanded version of its multi-mode HVAC unit that incorporates a flywheel to provide emergency backup power to keep the cooling system operating during a power loss. A flywheel, also sometimes known as a rotary UPS, is a spinning cylinder that generates power from kinetic energy, continuing to spin when grid power is interrupted. The flywheels are only being used to support the cooling units, while the servers and other mission-critical equipment will continue to be supported by battery UPS units and backup generators.
- SuperNAP 8 also includes Switch SHIELD, a redundant data center roofing system that offers two steel roof decks, each rated to survive winds of up to 200 MPH. The two roof decks are located nine feet apart and are attached to the concrete and steel shell of the facility and contain no roof penetrations. The sturdier roof addresses a timely concern in the wake of recent tornado outbreaks, which have included two powerful EF-5 tornados in Oklahoma in recent weeks.
These new features add an additional comfort level for customers running high-density server installations at the SuperNAP. Switch will provide additional information about SuperNAP 8 next week, when an official announcement of its opening is likely. |
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