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The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. PDI's i-CON, a containerized data center released last year, has been selected by real estate developer Pelio &Associates for its new 1101 Space Park data center facility in Santa Clara, California.
The data center itself spans 24,000 sq ft of colocation space, designed for preconfigured data centers for easy deployment and added scalability.
Pelio &Associates said containerized data centers offered customers the choice to scale as required, catering for space and power with deployment in time frames 14-weeks or shorter.
Fibertown builds 50,000 sq ft modular data center
US-based colocation player Fibertown said it is building a 50,000 sq ft data center in Houston using Digital Realty Trust's modular data center solutions.
Fibertown said the data center will feature 2N redundant cooling, multiple generators, hot and cold-aisle cooling. The data center will be open in July.
Telstra shareholders will receive details of the deal by July 1 and approval will need to be sought by the competition regulator in Australia before Telstra can start to see any other benefits from the deal.
Despite the deal meaning extra cash flow for Telstra, not all analysts were positive.
Telstra CFO John Stanhope told analysts at a press briefing that Telstra was set to make AU$9bn from the deal, and much of this would not be seen by the Telco for at least three years under the deal.
Analysts warned that a change of government could also have a serious affect on the project, and in turn, Telstra's share price.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said using Telstra would provide the government with a more efficient way of rolling out the NBN using its already available network.
The deal struck with the government will see Telstra staff trained in the NBN infrastructure and services