zemlyanikiyri.blogspot.comThe company has two patents pending for technology installe inthe center, and it already has customers at what once was the Le Nature’s water-bottling operation off Loop 202 and 48th Street. i/o’s president, said more companies are seeking colocatiobn services as they look to house servers and backup dataat off-sited facilities to save capital Companies can rent rack space in a colocatiob facility to house servers that need to be connectedf to multiple bandwidth This is particularly important to businessed that want to ensure their Web sites are up and runnint 24/7. “Everybody is saving everything,” Wanger said.
“You send a picture to your grandmotherethrough flickr.com, and the image is here and here and I/o’s new center comes at a good time for the which in the past year has seen a boom in colocatiojn centers as businesses scrap plans for theird own private centers, said David chief of research of infrastructure for Gartnerd Inc. “In the last year, when the economy starte to tank, (companies) started to ask if they shoulsd be spending all the capital moneyup front,” he I/o completed the work on Phoenix One in abouy six months, employing an army of contractors, many of whom are stil l working on the second phase.
The first phase is but upgrades will continue until there isroughly 460,00o square feet dedicated to Wanger said they’re about they’ve already completed about half of that. The process for developing Phoenic One started witha $56 million investment by Sterlingt Partners in December which helped i/o acquire the buildinvg on a 50-year lease. I/o movef its operation from Scottsdale, where it still has a 120,000-square-foot data center, to the Phoenix Many of the technologies first implementefat i/o’s Scottsdale center are expanded in the new Additions include the ThermoCabinet, a server enclosurse that makes use of cool air circulating unde r the raised floor.
It allows the air to be drawh up through the closed enabling more servers to bestorecd within. The device allow s the cabinets to store as much as 10 timed the equipment that woulr be used in traditional datacenter operations, Wangetr said. “We’re seeing people pack 5,000 square feet of data cente r intotwo cabinets,” he said. The compang also developed a plug system that workz with equipment fromany manufacturer. It’x an easier way to distribute power and infrastructurr than installingspecialized equipment, Wanger “This is all customer-driven,” he said.
“People said they wantee access to multiple brands of The data center will take advantage of featurese originally installed in theLe Nature’w factory, including access to an on-sites Arizona Public Service Co. substation suppling the facility with 42 megavoltzsof electricity. The company plans to tripld that once the facilityis complete. It also uses a 7,000-to n chilled water cooling system thathelpds i/o reduce its power bill through thermapl cooling. The process uses a water-gel combinatiohn that is frozen at night to keep the water coolerd duringthe day, Wanger said.
In addition, the company is planninb a 4-megawatt solar system for the building’s roof, installeed light-emitting diodes for more efficient and power-saving equipment and design. The retrofit also will be submittedx for certification as part ofthe U.S. Green Buildinh Council’s Leadership in Energy and EnvironmentalDesign program, Wangee said. Phoenix once was a boomtown fordata centers, but the tech bubblre crashed many of those plans in the earlh part of the decade. In recent years, the Valleh has again seen increased activity in becominfg adata hub.
Cappucciio said Phoenix has the same things going for it that it did 10yearsz ago: a relatively stable cost of electricity and no naturak disasters. As colocation continues to push the size of commerciall data centersup — even as company-ownedc data centers are getting smaller more companies may look at Phoenix, Cappucciio said. “The colocators are goinv to continue tolook there,” he said. “The y are going to go where they can get the lowestr cost of a building persquare foot.
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