Join us on October 20th to celebrate the grand opening of Data Foundry’s 250,000 sq. ft. data center, Texas 1 – the only purpose-built, carrier-neutral facility in central Texas. Texas 1 is the first colocation facility on the 40-acre master-planned Data Ranch data center development in Austin, Texas.

Our grand opening celebration will begin at 5 pm CT with live music, barbecue and tours of the new facility. Data Foundry executives will be on hand for meetings. To RSVP to Data Foundry’s grand opening event, email jsa_datafoundry@jaymiescotto.com. If you are unable to attend, we can schedule a Q&A session with the Data Foundry team.

Texas 1 is one of the most redundant, secure facilities in Texas, featuring access to 17 fiber providers and carriers; dual, independent substations and 100% concurrently maintainable chilled water cooling system. Texas 1 is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced on-site technical and security teams. To learn more about Texas 1 visithttp://www.datafoundry.com/tour.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Key partnerships for TELEHOUSE America continue – today TELEHOUSE America announces it has joined with Fujitsu, a global provider of ICT-based business solutions, to leverage its premium server products. The combined solution offerings by both TELEHOUSE and Fujitsu well support high performance and mission critical IT environments for TELEHOUSE data center clients. 

As one of the world’s top five server providers in the industry, Fujitsu develops and manufactures a wide range of products including industry standard servers for Windows® and Linux (PRIMERGY® Servers); high-end servers for Solaris™ UNIX® (SPARC Enterprise® Servers); high-end mission-critical servers for Windows® Linux; x86 Solaris (PRIMEQUEST® Servers); and more. 

The Fujitsu tower, rack, and blade servers guarantee TELEHOUSE customers scalability, reliability, and high performance. They are built with extensive mainframe data center experience, supporting even the most demanding platforms and mission-critical, always-on environments. 

Specifically, TELEHOUSE will provide its customers with a vast selection of PRIMERGY® Servers, including the PRIMERGY RX200 S6 and RX300 S6 Servers; and the ETERNUS storage product line – all available at cost-effective pricing, with packages suited for each of its customers’ needs. 

“By working with Fujitsu, TELEHOUSE is able to further enhance our premium service portfolio by offering an array of server products designed to provide the scalability, performance, and reliability that our customers require and expect of us in order to efficiently manage mission-critical systems,” states Noriyuki Kita, TELEHOUSE America’s Executive Vice President. “Fujitsu servers are very well known among our clients and partners for providing the foundation for a cost-effective, high-availability IT infrastructure, and TELEHOUSE is proud to be able to deliver such exceptional products to our customers.”

”We are excited about this opportunity with TELEHOUSE America to help ensure mission critical support for its data center clients,” said Richard McCormack, SVP, Server & Solutions Business at Fujitsu America.  “Fujitsu offers a complete range of server and storage devices to help fulfill the needs of our clients and this partnership helps to demonstrate that promise.”

“Our customers will greatly benefit from our Fujitsu relationship because of its high quality server products, and the cost-effective pricing plan we will extend,” continues Kita. “We look forward to continued collaboration with Fujitsu, a true technology innovator.”

To learn more about server product offerings from TELEHOUSE or have questions about its partnership with Fujitsu, please contact sales@telehouse.com or 718-355-2559.

JS&A is excited to announce the 2011 Telecom Exchange event to take place on June 29th at the Cipriani Wall Street in NYC. The Telecom Exchange is a networking event designed to navigate telecom operators through the many colocation and connectivity options in and around the New York Tri-State area and the rest of the world. Our purpose is to create the neutral playing field while showcasing all colocation providers, data center facilities, and local and international network providers with a network presence in the NY area. We believe this event, which focuses on key, carrier-neutral colocation space in the Northeast and the network connectivity options available within these spaces, will do great things for the industry at large.

Each attendee will receive the Telecom Exchange Directory, a map of the NYC metro area with the available colocations and carrier hotels’ locations highlighted when they arrive onsite. Inside the Directory, we will include a complete list of the participating networks available within each space. The Directory will have a floor diagram to showcase the various networks and facilities that are exhibiting to further streamline business opportunities for participants. Additionally, all attendees will have access to the DealCenter, an online meeting planning system, to view other attendees, sort by services and PoP locations, and plan on-on-one meetings, to take place on-site at Telecom Exchange.

So please join us for this inaugural event as we will efficiently help you navigate the many connectivity options throughout the NYC-area. Current exhibitors include: Allied Fiber, China Unicom, Electronic Environments, FiberMedia, Galaxy Visions, Hibernia Atlantic, KDDI America, Metro Network Services, NJ Fiber Exchange, NTT Communications, TELEHOUSE America, Telx, TelPlexus Vello Systems and Wilshire Communications.

To exhibit at Telecom Exchange or to get your company name listed in the print and on-line Telecom Exchange Directory, click here. All exhibitors receive 2 free passes, a $350 value, plus table space and signage.

To find out how to become a Telecom Exchange sponsor, click here or email info@thetelecomexchange.com for more information.

TELEHOUSE America is celebrating the grand opening of its newest, state-of-the-art data center, TELEHOUSE New York Chelsea, located at 85 10^th Avenue.

In honor of the new facility, TELEHOUSE will hold a grand opening event on Thursday, February 3. The event will include an official ribbon cutting ceremony and personal tours of the data center highlighting the significance of this momentous occasion.

TELEHOUSE New York Chelsea is designed to fully meet the City’s demand for a high-end, carrier neutral, customized data center. Located in the heart of Chelsea, this new facility offers proximity to the midtown Manhattan business district while avoiding major tourist locations, such as Times Square and The Empire State Building; as well as areas of compromised security due to increased foot traffic.

If you are interested in attending the grand opening of TELEHOUSE New York Chelsea, please email amy.wetton@telehouse.com. To learn more about TELEHOUSE America, visit www.TELEHOUSE.com.

GalaxyVisions has recently become a member of Green America’s Green Business Network™ and has already begun taking steps to conserve energy and provide eco-friendly solutions.

GalaxyVisions is proud to announce that in an effort to save power, they are shutting down their air conditioning units and will be using outside air during the winter months, thus saving a significant amount of power on Brooklyn Con-Ed Grid. GalaxyVisions also plans to decrease the power in the data center from 75 to 64 degrees, allowing the servers to work more efficiently, reducing the draw on CPU power and lowering energy consumption.

GalaxyVisions’s commitment will benefit both environment and the community, since Con-Ed will be able to provide additional power to the residential areas of Brooklyn.

To learn more about GalaxyVisions, please visit www.GalaxyVisions.com.

To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find GalaxyVisions on: Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

TELEHOUSE America’s premium partner, TAMP Systems has released their latest upgrade to Disaster Recovery Software (DRS), the DRS-I Module. This upgrade offers strong management capabilities to offer speed and assistance while recovering from a crisis.

The DRS-I Module is offered either as Software as a Servicer (SaaS) or can be installed within a corporate intranet Web server. Key features include:

• 24/7 Worldwide Access
• Audit Ready Best Practice Templates
• Business Impact Analysis and Workflow Tools
• Multiple Reporting Options
• Online Collaboration Tools and Automated E-mail Notification System
• User-friendly Interface for instant implementation

By partnering with TAMP Systems, TELEHOUSE provides clients with the latest innovations in disaster recovery software as well as a broader portfolio of trusted and reliable services.

For more information on TELEHOUSE America’s disaster recovery services, visit http://telehouse.com/recovery.php or email sales@TELEHOUSE.com.

Recipient of ‘One of the Fastest Growing Private

Companies in America’ Award

GalaxyVisions does it again–won another industry award and recognized as one of  the Fastest Growing Private Companies in America.  This INC Magazine award is one of several awards won by the company – others include web hosting accolades such as: 2008 Best of Englewood Cliffs Award in the Web Site Design category; WebHost Directory award winner; HostReview’s Fastest Growing Company to name a a few.  See more details on INC. Magazine’s award below:

Brooklyn, NY, September 16, 2010 – GalaxyVisions, a managed web hosting, dedicated server, colocation, and shared web services provider is the recipient of one of Inc.com’s 2010 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America Award. Ranked number 1,784 on the prestigious Inc. 5000 List, GalaxyVisions, is recognized for its strong and continued company growth of 154% over a three year period. As a daily online resource for entrepreneurs, Inc.com ranked businesses according to percentage of growth from 2006-2009.

As a leader in the web hosting market, GalaxyVisions offers an extensive portfolio of cost-effective Managed Web Hosting, single and multiple Server Colocation, Managed Dedicated Servers, and Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting plans. With over 15,000 square feet of secure data center space, GalaxyVisions can also accommodate any sized client or service provider by offering fully redundant colocation options in its New York City facility. Clients can also connect to multiple Tier-1 IP providers and carriers for secure, high-speed interconnections and peering within the data center facility.

“We are excited to be recognized as an Inc. 5000 leader in the private company sector,” states Ray Sidler, CEO of GalaxyVisions. “Our strong commitment to providing unmatched customer service and flexible, robust solutions is evident by our year over year continued growth.”

For more information about GalaxyVisions, please visit www.galaxyvisions.com

About GalaxyVisions

GalaxyVisions was founded in 2001. We are a privately held managed services provider located in the heart of Brooklyn, NY. We provide affordable managed hosting solutions for companies of all types. We supply all of the servers, software and bandwidth and management tools needed to run almost any web hosted application. From small to Enterprise server solutions, GalaxyVisions guarantees to meet or beat the price of any competitor. At GalaxyVisions we are committed to excellent quality service 24/7/365.

To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find GalaxyVisions on: Twitter. For more information, please visit www.galaxyvisions.com.

The awareness of the Container Data Center is increasing as the need for a more efficient and distributed data centers, with access to abundant and inexpensive power continues to become more necessary.  Containers provide modularity, mobility and access to major interstate dark fiber systems, since they can be placed nearly anywhere along a route to access dark fiber.   With the flexibility, and affordable options that Container Data Centers provide, more real estate opportunities could be realized, since containers can be shifted anywhere along a route to locations with affordable and abundant power.

Today we know that nearly all businesses require dedicated and secure network access to support their servers.  With Container Data Centers, companies such as hospitals, law firms and government agencies, can now access server space directly on their current campus, while also receiving the full benefits of affordable and abundant power leveraging dark fiber network access.

Allied Fiber, the nation’s first ‘All-Access Network,’ illustrates the use of Container Data Center Network Design as it pertains to its network route.  The company, which is constructing both a short-haul and long-haul duct for its dark fiber, illustrates where Container Data Centers can be placed along the route, intercepting the required network ducts while also having the option to install gear directly in to an Allied Fiber colocation facility.  Allied Fiber believes that within the colocation facility, the Container Data Center owner or operator can locate their WDM/Ethernet transport equipment and gain cross connects to multiple transport carriers and ISP’s. The combination of these physical layer assets allows for access to abundant and inexpensive power and network capacity, and offers choices of container data center products for all organizations in need.

For more information about Allied Fiber visit www.alliedfiber.com.

Contributed by: Randy Weinberger, IceHook Systems  

Randy Weinberger, IceHook Systems

New York City mayor and billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg is a big believer in the saying, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”.   It is a simple and obvious statement that can apply to every business opportunity.  When it comes to running a voice network, the key to measurement begins with the ability to capture as much information as is possible.  Again, this seems simple and obvious.  Only here’s the thing…many carriers are willfully discarding vital network data in the name of saving storage space.   More specifically, carriers are not recording all of the Call Detail Records (CDRs) that their platforms’ generate.  In fact, in many cases, service providers discard far more CDRs then they retain.

Let me explain.   Since most next-gen switches are server based and rely on hard drives to capture CDR’s, by default many platforms are configured to save space by not recording CDR’s for each hunt attempt.  Only one CDR is written, and therefore it is typically the last route choice that is populated in the outbound trunk field.   For example, if a call hunts through two carriers before ultimately failing on a third, no records are written to indicate the failed attempts on the first two carriers. In other words, the two carriers that also failed the call get a free pass.  Some platforms do indicate the number of hunt attempts in the CDR, but there is very little high level reporting that can be done with this data.  Furthermore, even if you were to determine that a particular carrier failed a call, the error code is not recorded thus there is no indication why the call failed.  This severely impacts decision making.  Fundamental statistics like Answer Seizure Ratio (ASR) become nearly impossible to measure accurately.  Also, how do you size your network properly when you don’t have a complete account of all call attempts?  Finally, not having access to failure codes makes trouble shooting more of a guessing game then something you can rely upon when making decisions that can cost your company thousands of dollars an hour.

Fortunately, almost every platform, be it Genband, Mera, Sonus, or even FreeSwitch have settings which enable them to record every hunt attempt on every call.  Of course you will have to keep some things in mind before you decide to implement this.  First of all, capturing each hunt attempt will consume storage space, so you may not be able to store as many call records locally.  Secondly, you have to ensure that your reporting software can account for dealing with multiple CDRs per call.  Some packages cannot and as a result your reporting will indicate that you are receiving double or triple the amount of call attempts then you actually are.

Despite the increase in storage and reporting requirements, I cannot think of any reason why any carrier would not keep and utilize this data.  Failure to do so is essentially throwing  away the opportunity to perform the following.

• Capture granular detail of each leg of every call for trouble shooting purposes
• Accurately measure vendor performance
• Compile high level reporting for network sizing purposes

Like Mayor Bloomberg might say, “If you don’t capture it, you can’t measure it.”

Data Foundry Founders Carolyn Yokubaitis, Ron Yokubaitis, and Jonah Yokubaitis, Congressman Lloyd Doggett, Austin Chamber of Commerce President Michael Rollins, to Celebrate Commencement of Construction

250,000 Square Foot Purpose Built Facility Provides Robust Data Center and Disaster Recovery Solutions

Austin, TX- August 2, 2010- Data Foundry, a leading provider of wholesale and retail data center outsourcing, colocation, and disaster recovery services, announces that it is hosting a Groundbreaking ceremony on August 3rd, 2010 at the site of its newly planned Austin Data Center (ADC2), a 250,000 square foot data center to reside on its new Data Ranch campus in Austin, TX.  Phase one of the data center build includes a 130,000 square foot facility scheduled to be completed 2Q 2011.  The facility, designed from the ground up, will provide state-of-the-art colocation, data center and disaster recovery services to support both the demand and growth of Data Foundry’s existing client base and attract new companies.

Data Foundry’s second Austin data center, the master planned ADC2, will reside on the Data Ranch, a 40 acre campus in Central Texas, near Austin Bergstrom International Airport. With capabilities for 100 megawatts of power, the premium Data Ranch campus includes end-to-end underground power feeds from diverse substations; dual diverse entry points for power, telecom, and water; and availability of over 15 telecom providers. This Data Ranch infrastructure is incorporated into the design of the ADC2.  The 130,000 square foot first phase is Tier III designed with fully enclosed indoor UPS and generator systems, as well as concurrently maintainable power and cooling systems. The ADC2 will be optimized for client disaster recovery and back up requirements, along with its ability to serve primary colocation needs.

“This Groundbreaking ceremony marks the beginning of construction on our new premium Data Center at the Data Ranch Campus,” states Edward Henigin, Chief Technology Officer of Data Foundry. “The event celebrates the community it will serve and the opportunities afforded through its next-generation design and multi-megawatt power capabilities.  This mission critical infrastructure is key to attracting large Enterprise and service providers considering Texas for their expansions.”

The flexible design of the ADC2 can support customers with requirements for a single cabinet up to multi-megawatt deployments as well as worksite recovery stations.  Customized options to suit customers’ needs include private data suites built with fully-enclosed hard walls starting at 2,500 square feet – all staffed 24/7/265 by trained security and engineering teams.

“We welcome Data Foundry’s new premium data center building to the Austin area,” states Michael Rollins, President of Austin Chamber of Commerce.  “With their over sixteen years of experience and highly trained engineering team, we are confident the data center will serve as a draw for regional and national companies. Austin’s central location away from threat of hurricane and natural disasters, coupled with a large base of high tech talent make this a prime location for a world-class data center.”

For more information about Data Foundry, please visit www.datafoundry.com, or email sales@datafoundry.com.

# # #

About Data Foundry Data Foundry, founded in 1994 as Texas.net, was the first Internet Service Provider in San Antonio and one of the first 50 Internet Service Providers in the United States. Today, Data Foundry provides comprehensive wholesale and retail data center outsourcing, colocation, and disaster recovery services The company provides secure premium facilities for servers and equipment, emergency workspace and carrier-neutral network accessibility, supported by experienced onsite technicians and customer support 24/7/365.  The company supports more than 1,000 enterprise customers across a variety of industries including retail, energy, healthcare, insurance, legal, real estate and financial services. The company operates data centers in Austin and Houston and owns private networks in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Dallas. For more information go to http://www.datafoundry.com or call 1.800.839.2794.

Data Foundry is a trademark of Data Foundry, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.
For media enquiries, please contact pr@datafoundry.com or call 512.684.9050.