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Canadas Largest Green Data Center Being Built by gigaCENTER With Help of IBM
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Posted by abetterway2host, 06-14-2008, 03:26 PM KELOWNA, BC and MONTREAL - 11 Jun 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) has signed an agreement to help build a $ CDN 75 million, 150,000 square foot green data center in the heart of British Columbia with gigaCENTER Services Corporation, in partnership with RackForce Networks.
The new facility called gigaCENTER Services Corp will be among the most efficient and greenest large-scale data centers in Canada. It is being developed using IBMs modular approach and will include power and cooling capabilities to support a variety of technologies from high-density blade servers to mainframes.
We are building a data center with IBM in a safe and secure location to respond to growing issues about natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods, said Tim Dufour, CEO of both RackForce and gigaCENTER. This center will support the latest technologies using green hydro-generated power and the most efficient, environmentally friendly design. The IBM design is calculated at a Power Usage Effectiveness rating of 1.38, which will mean our facility will be among the most efficient in the industry.
IBM products and services will be delivered over the three-year construction, with the first phase scheduled to open in December 2008. When completed, the facility will support 70,000 square feet of raised-floor data center space and create jobs for up to 100 employees.
Customers of the new center will be able to rent space in increments as small as one cabinet, up to dedicated cages and private rooms. The center will provide facilities to support on demand server capacity services and Business Continuity and Resiliency Services, delivered through RackForce and IBM Global Services.
A year ago when IBM launched Project Big Green, one of its goals was to help identify ways to optimize data center usage and reduce energy consumption needs, said Steve Sams, IBM vice president, Global Site and Facilities Services. This new data center is an example of this initiative. By offering green colocation and data center services, gigaCENTER and IBM will enable enterprises to meet their corporate and IT environmental goals.
About RackForce
RackForce is a leading provider of green data center infrastructure and network services from its strategically located facilities in the heart of British Columbia, Canada. Through its superior data center design, automated systems and virtualization expertise it provides highly reliable On Demand servers, colocation and connectivity to a worldwide customer base.
About gigaCENTER
gigaCENTERS Services Corporation is a leader in the design, construction and operation of premium green data centers engineered to support the rigorous computing demands of today and the future. gigaCENTER will provide power and cooling capabilities to support a variety of technologies including high density blade servers, virtualized server clusters and mainframes.
About IBM
For more information about IBM, go to www.ibm.com.
Technologically Advanced gigaCENTER to open December 2008 Doug Alder
The gigaCENTER datacenter is moving forward. Operational in December, 2008 it will be the most advanced, and greenest in its class, datacenter in North America.As you can see from above, this is a datacenter like none other youve experienced before. RackForce is now pre-selling colocation space in gigaCENTER so dont miss out on this opportunity, we expect it to sell out fast. Contact Doug Alder (dalder at rackforce.com) or Jay Robinson (jrobinson at rackforce.com) on our gigaCENTER sales team now to get started.
- IBM designed datacenter
- 150,000 sq. ft of Tier 2 and Tier 3 datacenter space
- 70,000 sq. ft. raised floor
- Dedicated servers, virtual servers, rack colocation, 300sq.ft.+ colo cages, 5000sq.ft. colo suites, and 20,000 sq. ft. of disaster recovery (BCRS) office space .
- Extremely low risk for any natural disaster. No earthquakes, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no floods. Kelowna is rated as one of the very best places in North America to build a datacenter
- Fully redundant dual power streams, HVAC and high speed networks
- Lowest PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) in the business. Most datacenters require 3+ Watts of incoming power for each Watt a server needs (PUE 3). The other 2 Watts are consumed in cooling the servers and other IT tasks. gigaCENTER has a PUE of 1.3, that is it only requires three tenths of a Watt more than what the servers and IT infrastructure requires.
- Hot aisle - cold aisle design to maximize cooling capacity. Reduces power consumption.
- Uses IBMs revolutionary Stored Cooling System to store excess cooling capacity during off-peak hours for use during peak hours. Reduces power consumption.
- IBM cold door technology. Water cools the front of the rack enclosure to further reduce power usage. 300+ Watts per sq.ft. power density compared to the standard 100 to 200 W/sq. ft.
- Green power: gigaCENTER is fed by dual hydroelectric power suppliers coming from two separate substations to gigaCENTERs own dedicated substation. Hydroelectric power is zero carbon power. In addition gigaCENTER has an excess capacity of standby bi-fuel generators (natural gas and diesel/biodiesel) to ensure no interruptions to service should the need ever arise.
- gigaCENTER is a modular design concept. This allows for expansion as needed, further reducing power consumption as only the modules in use need power and HVAC
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