Santa Clara 3-Property Campus – Data Center Opportunity

~ 12 acre building campus with three (3) two-story existing buildings ranging in size from 55,000 to 75,000 SF each. 13 MW on site from Silicon Valley Power ~25% less expensive than PG&E. FAR (floor area ratio) of 1.0. Building area can be expanded to a total of 520,000 SF. Excellent location next to the … Read more

This Is How Amazon’s Servers Rarely Go Down: Part 3 of 3

By Josh Symonds, March 7, 2017, AppDynamics. Final Thoughts By relying on auto scaling groups, AMIs, and a sensible provisioning system, you can create a system that is completely repeatable and consistent. Any server could go down and be replaced, or 10 more servers could enter your load balancer, and the process would be seamless, … Read more

Anaheim-Los Angeles California Data Center

Anaheim-Los Angeles Data Center

120,000 sf data center space available for lease, divisible from single racks up to 25,000 contiguous sf. Average move-in savings of $50,000+ (room construction, dedicated AC, dedicated power, backup battery system, etc). Various lease options and opportunities for data center operators. 12 plus prominent fiber and carriers on site.

Big 6 Data Center Revenue Per Employee

Revenue per employee is not a metric for company performance assessment, but it is reflective of the cost of doing business for various business models or vertical markets. In the data center industry each provider has a slightly different mix of pure-play data center, connectivity and managed services that affects revenue per employee. DuPont Fabros, … Read more

This Is How Amazon’s Servers Rarely Go Down: Part 2 of 3

By Josh Symonds, March 7, 2017, AppDynamics. Auto Scaling, Repeatability, and Consistency Amazon’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, such as RDS, are extremely convenient and very powerful. But they’re far from perfect. Generally, AWS products are much slower to provision compared to running the software directly yourself. Plus, they tend to be several software versions behind the … Read more

This Is How Amazon’s Servers Rarely Go Down: Part 2 of 3

By relying on auto-scaling groups, AMIs, and a sensible provisioning system, you can create a system that is completely repeatable and consistent. Any server could go down and be replaced, or 10 more servers could enter your load balancer, and the process would be seamless, automatic, and almost invisible to you.

Who Consumes 14 Gigawatts of Peak Hour Power?

At the moment of this writing it is 119 degrees here in Arizona where I sit. In case you thought data centers were the power consuming scourge we’ve heard of in the past, the broader market of consumer and industrial users suck up huge amounts of unmanaged power when mother-nature decides it’s going to be … Read more