Telehouse Global Spotlight: Telehouse Paris Data Centers

C’est Magnifique! The Paris Data Center and Colocation Market Is Thriving

Given a growing population of approximately 2.3 million inhabitants, with surrounding suburbs that are home to around 10.5 million, Paris, the most populous urban area in the European Union, offers enough opportunity to keep its multi-tenant data center and hosting markets growing. A large number of multinational corporations are headquartered in the city, among these, 29 of the Fortune 500, including Sanofi, BNP Paribas and Orange. Paris is home to many other healthcare, financial services, and telecommunications companies, as well as some of the world’s most recognized luxury retail brands, pushing greater and greater demand for colocation, hosting and cloud services to meet French business requirements. Indeed, Paris is the third-largest multi-tenant data center and fourth-largest hosting market in Europe.

While some Paris-based companies seek to lower costs through renewable energy as well as cheaper land prices that would necessitate a move away from the highly competitive city center, many businesses find a presence there is still required for connectivity into Paris’ major carrier hotels. So much so that Paris dominates as France’s data center hub, accounting for over 70 percent of the country’s total data center footprint. Click here for more details.

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Telehouse America
7 Teleport Drive,
Staten Island,
New York, USA 10311
Phone No: 718–355–2500
Email: gregory.grant@telehouse.com

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Telehouse for Technophiles: Robots Enter the Data Center

Robots Promise Energy and Operational Cost Reduction

The word ‘robot’ was first heard in a 1920 Czechoslovakian theater production to describe human-like machines that were created to work in a factory. Thereafter, including Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi masterpiece, “Metropolis,” with its female robot ‘Hel,’ to Steven Spielberg’s 2001 movie, “A.I.,” and its Mecha, advanced androids capable of emulating human thoughts and emotions, to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Terminator” franchise, robots have appeared in films, on television and in literature as agents of good and evil.

While the definition of the word robot means “drudgery” or “hard work” in Czech, organizations today are applying robotics to specialized data center applications in an effort to eliminate the sweat, cost and toil associated with day-to-day facility administration.

The biggest business driver to deploying robotics in the data center is the need for greater levels of efficiency. Companies are always looking for ways to make their IT infrastructures more agile and less costly, and robotics has been identified as a means to add more automation to achieve these goals. Additional potential benefits include IT staff head-count reduction, improved security and the increased accuracy of monitoring that automation brings. Click here for more details.


Contact Details:
Telehouse America
7 Teleport Drive,
Staten Island,
New York, USA 10311
Phone No: 718–355–2500
Web: http://www.telehouse.com/
Email: gregory.grant@telehouse.com

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Telehouse Green: Any Way the Wind Blows

Data Centers are Harnessing the Power of Wind Energy

More than eight million data centers exist around the world, using upwards of 30GW of energy each year, an amount that is steadily increasing. A study by the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) revealed that if planet’s data centers were a country, they would represent the world’s 12th-largest consumer of electricity, ranking somewhere between Spain and Italy.

The carbon footprint of a mid-sized, 10 MW data center can range from three million to over 130 million kilograms of CO2, according to Green House Data. However, the good news is that this environmental impact can be significantly reduced through the adoption of renewable and sustainable energy resources, such as wind energy.

According to Data Center Knowledge, the generation of power through on-site wind turbines has gained traction across the data center community over the past few years. The latest AFCOM State of the Data Center survey showed that 34 percent of respondents have either deployed or are planning to deploy a renewable energy source for their data center, of which half are or will be using wind energy. As a testament to its effectiveness, various hyper-scale organizations including Microsoft, Google and Apple are now relying upon wind energy as a source of power at some of their facilities.
View Original Source: http://www.telehouse.com/2017/01/any-way-the-wind-blows/

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Telehouse America7 Teleport Drive,
Staten Island,
New York, USA 10311
Phone No: 718–355–2500
Web: www.telehouse.com
Email: gregory.grant@telehouse.com

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Telehouse, The Human Element: Speaking Truth to Power

Dave Kinney, Director of Facility Planning and Operations at Telehouse, on PUE

According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, data centers throughout the U.S. are projected to consume 139 billion kilowatt-hours by 2020, placing a major strain on natural resources as well as facilities’ bottom line. To avoid excessive consumption of energy, data center owners and operators utilize Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) as a key metric for the design and construction of an efficient facility. PUE gauges the ratio of energy entering the facility compared to how much power is actually consumed by IT equipment. This equation provides a window into the building’s overall efficiency and highlights areas for potential improvement.

Insider Perspective

We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Dave Kinney, Telehouse America’s Director of Facility Planning and Operations, to discuss the importance of PUE as a tool for implementation of energy-efficient best practices throughout the data center. During this interview, Mr. Kinney shared his experience using innovative design and advanced technologies that can increase a facility’s PUE, and how the pursuit of an ideal rating can generate significant reduction in energy expenses.

“Measuring PUE allows you to gain a more in-depth perspective of a building’s performance and opens the door for cost-savings opportunities,” explained Mr. Kinney. “It’s a simple concept: the better your PUE, the more you save on your monthly energy bill by minimizing wasted power resources.”

While owners and operators can certainly benefit from a lower PUE score, this metric is also a key consideration for colocation tenants leasing server space within a facility.

View Original Source: http://www.telehouse.com/2016/12/speaking-truth-to-power/

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Telehouse America

7 Teleport Drive, Staten Island,
New York, USA 10311
Phone No: 718–355–2500
Email: gregory.grant@telehouse.com

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