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CyrusOne Helps RigNet Increase Data Center Capacity in Houston, Texas [Manufacturing Close - Up](Manufacturing Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Global data center services provider CyrusOne announced that RigNet, Inc., a global provider of oilfield communications, has expanded its operations at the Houston West data center campus. "We're very pleased to be providing RigNet with a colocation solution that includes the CyrusOne National Internet Exchange (National IX)," said Dottie Spruce, executive vice president of sales at CyrusOne. "Using the National IX allows RigNet to have IT infrastructure collocated in multiple interconnected data centers and also stay close to its customers in the energy market." According to a release, CyrusOne's Houston West data center campus is a geophysical computing center of excellence with 31 megawatts of critical power load and a high-performance compute (HPC) environment that can deliver up to 900 watts per square foot. "Having access to CyrusOne's National IX is a definite advantage for our company," said Morten Hagland Hansen, senior vice president of business services at RigNet. "We were drawn to CyrusOne due to their outstanding reputation in the oil and gas industry and the innovation of their National IX, which enables us to be present at several of the CyrusOne data centers in Houston without significantly increasing our costs." CyrusOne specializes in enterprise data center services and colocation solutions, and engineers its facilities to include the power-density infrastructure required to deliver availability, including an available highest possible power redundancy (2N) architecture. Customers have access to the CyrusOne National IX, which marries low-cost robust connectivity with the massively scaled data centers that the company is known for by creating the first-ever data center platform that virtually links a dozen of CyrusOne's enterprise facilities in multiple metropolitan markets. The CyrusOne National IX, coupled with the company's multiple dispersed locations and available 100 percent uptime, enables Fortune 500 enterprises to implement cost-effective, multi-location data center platforms that can help manage their internal disaster recovery requirements and applicable regulatory or industry- specific requirements such as Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, and PCI. CyrusOne received multi-site data center certification from the Open-IX (OIX) Association. The OIX Association has a mandate to promote resilient interconnection in hub cities to facilitate a more resilient Internet. More information: www.cyrusone.com www.rig.net ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |