As reported on ZDTWeb.com on 28 September telecommunications company, Primus Canada has opened its new quakeproof data center facility in Vancouver. The new Internet Data Center has anti-static 12-inch raised floors and storage cabinets that provide 44U space. The company expects the first component of the facility will be filled within 18 months.
To protect its facility from earthquakes, Primus has purchased special bases from Valencia, California-based WorkSafe Technologies, which uses ball bearings on a platform to give hardware cabinets some flexibility.
According to A J Bayets, Primus Canada's senior vice-president of business services: "It can shift in the neighbourhood of three or four inches and counter-reacts to the earthquake, and servers can remain up, adding he believes Primus is the first Canadian company to use the WorkSafe product in a facility hosting other customers' IT infrastructure.

The Vancouver data center occupies most of the floor of a downtown office building. Each of its UPS systems contains up to three modules, each acting as a separate UPS unit, which conditions the input feed to a steady 208V output to the server room. AC units dedicated to each room with dual compressors are designed to allow for maintenance and operation simultaneously.