IBM plans $360 million data center in North Carolina

IBM has announced plans to build a $360 million state-of-the-art data center at its facility in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina. The data center will include new technologies and services that will enable IBM to deliver cloud computing capabilities to clients. It will also provide dual-site backup and recovery offerings from IBM's Business Continuity and Resiliency Services, in conjunction with IBM's recently enhanced Boulder, Colorado data center.

The new RTP facility will be a truly adaptive data center, where facilities equipment is designed to adjust its operation to the needs of IT equipment in the data center. The data center will be specially designed for a heterogeneous mix of computer hardware and software.

IBM will also incorporate its High Density Zone solution into the data center design. This will enable IBM to support the latest water-cooled equipment and energy requirements, as well as to optimize its infrastructure for traditional and new air-cooled equipment.

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•Date: 5th August 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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