NetApp launched its new data center in Hillsboro, Oregon, Friday. The data center will house IT infrastructure for the storage vendor’s customer support monitoring and corporate IT services.

NetApp designed the facility together with Digital Realty Trust, a global San Francisco-based developer and provider of wholesale data center space.

The data center is part of NetApp’s efforts to modernize its IT infrastructure. Key tenets of this transformation are automatic provisioning and optimization of storage resources, 100% data accessibility (even during upgrades and migrations), and seamless storage-resource scaling capabilities.

Describing the infrastructure, NetApp CIO Cynthia Stoddard said, “To achieve the growth objectives we have, we need to enable an environment where the data is essentially immortal; it is always available—never having to worry about scheduled downtime or gaps in our ability to support our customers.”

NetApp installed its own storage clusters at the facility, using its Data OnTap operating system. The hardware is NetApp FAS6200 arrays, providing about 1.5PB of clustered storage total.

The infrastructure also includes NetApp’s joint converged-infrastructure solution with Cisco called FlexPod. It consists of NetApp storage arrays and Cisco’s Unified Computing System servers and network switches.

NetApp has also installed Fujitsu’s Primiergy and Sparc Enterprise servers at the data center.

Digital helped the client in designing an energy efficient facility. The data center uses outside air for cooling for the majority of the year, cold-aisle containment and efficient electrical infrastructure.

NetApp is building another data center in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. The company is planning to set up a private cloud at this facility once it is completed.