I’m confused. If a **insert natural disaster here** were to occur and it were to destroy or severely damage the place in which you’ve chosen to colocate your mission critical data and IT hardware, what would you do? Nothing, right? You’re protected because your data center - colocation solution included (said with large echoed voice) – DISASTER. RECOVERY. SOLUTIONS. Okay, I know what disaster recovery is and I understand redundancy (meaning each system or component has a back-up plan), but doesn’t true disaster recovery mean not having to recover from a disaster? I’d prefer something called “Disaster Proofery”. While I doubt I’ll be able to get the team at Data Foundry to run with a name change, their new Texas 1 data center provides the closest thing to “Disaster Proofery” available.
Texas 1, the first purpose-built, carrier-neutral data center in the Central Texas region is now open for business. The initial phase of the highly anticipated 250,000 SF data center is fully operational and the first customers have begun to move in. Texas 1 is the first facility on the 40-acre master-planned data center development in Austin called the “Data Ranch” (love this name – innovative cowboys and tech geeks unite!). Texas 1 offers secure colocation and disaster recovery solutions (they mean Disaster Proofery), including dedicated worksite recovery space. Texas 1’s unique design includes independent and diverse power, water and network feeds with no single point of failure within its power, cooling and network systems. The site’s fully redundant power is fed from two separate substations, a rare feature for data centers, with a dedicated feed enclosed in an end-to-end, concrete encased duct bank. The chilled water cooling system enables maximum cooling flexibility from standard single cabinet deployments to high density configurations. Even the most complex High Performance Computing (HPC) environments can be properly cooled and supported within Texas 1. With over 15 network carriers available, Texas 1 also provides customers a variety of carrier-neutral options for their network solution.
The Data Ranch is open and Texas 1 is taking customers…but only those interested in a meaningful and ‘futureproof’ data center solution need apply.
To learn more about ‘futureproofing’ your company, please visit: http://www.datafoundry.com/news/data-foundry-announces-the-opening-of-texas-1-data-center-in-austin/
