Healthcare IT is a $2.6 trillion services industry. One of the key drivers, cited by The Boyd Reports 'Healthcare Services Industry: A Comparative Cost Analysis for Information Assurance Operations,' is security. Other key factors include capital spending and site selection as key considerations for companies within the healthcare services industry. The study recently published by Boyd, a company that provides independent site selection counsel to leading U.S. and overseas corporations, explores the healthcare data security center costs across 50 U.S. cities. The report explores the total operating costs for each city and breaks these operational costs down. For instance, New York City, which is ranked the most expensive city to operate a Healthcare data center, could cost companies over $31.6 million. Calculations include labor costs, power, property and sales tax, HVAC costs and travel (to and from). This figure, compared to the study's lowest cost city, Sioux Falls, SD comes in at just over $17 million for the same considerations. Is a NYC address worth more than double the cost of the nation's lowest cost healthcare IT facility location?If you need a NYC Metro address, it's much easier to....CONTINUE READING ON FIBERMEDIA BLOG
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Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Healthcare IT is a $2.6 trillion services industry. One of the key drivers, cited by The Boyd Reports 'Healthcare Services Industry: A Comparative Cost Analysis for Information Assurance Operations,' is security. Other key factors include capital spending and site selection as key considerations for companies within the healthcare services industry. The study recently published by Boyd, a company that provides independent site selection counsel to leading U.S. and overseas corporations, explores the healthcare data security center costs across 50 U.S. cities. The report explores the total operating costs for each city and breaks these operational costs down. For instance, New York City, which is ranked the most expensive city to operate a Healthcare data center, could cost companies over $31.6 million. Calculations include labor costs, power, property and sales tax, HVAC costs and travel (to and from). This figure, compared to the study's lowest cost city, Sioux Falls, SD comes in at just over $17 million for the same considerations. Is a NYC address worth more than double the cost of the nation's lowest cost healthcare IT facility location?If you need a NYC Metro address, it's much easier to....CONTINUE READING ON FIBERMEDIA BLOGWednesday, 11 April 2012
This is the question asked by Deerns Consulting Engineers' white paper published in the fall of 2011. The white paper addresses key issues associated with energy optimization of data centers, with an emphasis on implementing cost-savings solutions. "Based on Deerns' experience, energy savings of 15-35% with a payback time of less than one year are feasible, even for very efficient facilities," cites the paper. What they know can help companies excel at creating reliable data centers while reducing costs associated with energy bills - and who doesn't want cost savings?
According to Deerns' paper, now is the right time to upgrade your data center facility. There are a number of nationwide rebate programs from utility companies, municipalities and state and federal grants that companies can leverage. While many data centers have already taken advantage of these incentives, Deerns can help you do so too - while they are still in play. So how do they reduce your energy consumption? ..... Read the full article here, How Energy Efficient is YOUR Data Center? courtesy of WiredRE
According to Deerns' paper, now is the right time to upgrade your data center facility. There are a number of nationwide rebate programs from utility companies, municipalities and state and federal grants that companies can leverage. While many data centers have already taken advantage of these incentives, Deerns can help you do so too - while they are still in play. So how do they reduce your energy consumption? ..... Read the full article here, How Energy Efficient is YOUR Data Center? courtesy of WiredRE
Monday, 26 March 2012
On a big picture level, Campos Research & Analysis just completed a study for Digital Realty Trust, which was released this week. Overall, the North American data center market demonstrates an incredible appetite for expansion, as the survey found that 92% of senior decision makers at large corporations have plans to expand their data center presence in 2012. 54% of these respondents identified expectations of projects to span 15,000 square feet or more in size.
Consider as a supporting barometer, the direction of office real estate in general within the tech sector. This benchmark accounted for 29% of all growth in the US office market in 2011, adding an estimated 10.2 million square feet of space as identified by real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. A positive marker indeed.
Within the northern California region, the City of Santa Clara, with its proximity to Silicon Valley is already considered one of the densest data center hubs in the country. Developments in the San Francisco Bay area are seeing opportunity, such as a project in the vibrant South of Market ("SOMA") District, which is now coming up to speed. The Fiber Depot is a six story, 105,325 rentable square foot data center, telecommunications and office building, The former Hawley Terminal Building was previously a storage facility for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and was converted into a telecom switching building, utilizing its ideal location to two primary fiber network loops. Offering a substantial power supply, an upgraded carrier neutral meet-me-room, and large floor plates with load-bearing capacity for heavy equipment, transitioning to data center tenants was a natural evolution.
At present, the site attracts a diverse group of telco and data center tenants, including AT&T, AOL/Time Warner, Global Crossing and Neutral Tandem, with the remaining space leased to office and retail tenants. For details on the Fiber Depot carrier hotel facility, or data center real estate, colocation and design services, visit Wired Real Estate Group, Inc.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
What has lured Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world to build its new Data Center in Colorado Springs? Land is one thing but incentives sealed the deal. The local government in Colorado Springs offered Wal-Mart $4.5 million in sales and business personal property tax rebates as incentives to close the deal. And Wal-Mart isn’t the only company to tap into these resources. Agilent Technologies’ data and technology centers also received over $4 million in incentives that include city personal property tax exemptions and sales and use tax rebates. Furthermore, Colorado Springs is becoming a hot-bed for data centers serving major corporations including Progressive Insurance, FedEx and Hewlett-Packard.
How can others get into this game and what’s in it for them?
Currently underway is the Vineyard Data Center Park, a 108-acre development just south of downtown Colorado Springs. It is designed to be the region’s first covenant controlled, sustainable data center campus. The region is particularly attractive to major data center operations because power rates in the region are 39% below the nations average power rates, this project includes a storm water conservation program, will use recycled building materials, install a permeable pavement, xeriscaping, wetlands preservation, wildlife habitat preservation, tree harvesting and salvaging, composting, and more. These green initiatives, together with attractive power rates, affordable land and building space are compounded by the incredible incentives offered by the State and Regional government offices for this region. Oh, and did we mention that the school district is also expected to offer tax exemptions and rebates too?
Why Colorado Springs?
The area is seeking to attract major businesses that can provide employment opportunities to sustain and grow the region’s economy. The area offers low-cost and reliable electricity, access to an educated workforce and is located in a disaster free zone, for the most part. All three of these factors make Colorado Springs particularly attractive to companies like Wal-Mart.
The Wal-Mart project is expected to initially employ 30 people with salaries ranging from $30K-$70K. Over the course of five years it is expected to add additional employees bringing the total to 40 permanent jobs. The data center is expected to be built for $100M with additional equipment investments to reach between $50-$100M over the course of 15 years. This project alone is expected to add about $488M into the Pike’s Peak region’s economy over its first 15 years. This is tremendous value to the region and with many other data centers located throughout the area and with additional developments underway, employment opportunities are about to soar – just as the US economy and job rates need them to.
Colorado Springs – the Time is Ripe
It is a great time to consider new data center space and green-field construction opportunities in Colorado Springs. It’s going to be home to a truly valuable workforce that will bring talent, skills and knowledge into the region. To find out how you can tap into the incentives and development opportunities available in the region contact WiredRE at www.wiredre.com or email wiredre@imillerpr.com. The company represents the Vineyard Data Center Park – a property that offers incentives and land development opportunities specifically for data center projects.
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
As capital becomes more readily available to the colocation market, the need for speed and more capacity will likely play-out with emphasis. In fact, data center advisory firm, Wired Real Estate Group, Inc. completed the placement of another national colocation company in a 43,000 square foot California data center, as they continue to roll after a 2011 that went down with over 100% growth.The Los Angeles site has 5 MW of existing utility service, with expectations that the site will ultimately garner over $20 million in investment as a Tier III colocation facility over its useful life. California's colocation market is considered one of the largest in the world, and has seen significant data center finance activity over the last several years. Colocation and property firms deploying new capital in the region include Latisys, Alchemy Communications, Digital Realty Trust, Equinix, Vantage Data Centers, DuPont Fabros, Scale Matrix, American Internet Services, Fiber Depot, RedIT and others.
Wired Real Estate CEO, Everett Thompson, anticipates further consolidation and renewed investment in the market , with 2012 producing accelerated growth opportunities for the firm, as well as other public and privately held colocation firms. The firm has completed over 200 engagements in the last 36 months with leading enterprises, including numerous members of the Fortune 200. Nationally, the firm represents nearly 1 M square feet of colocation and data centers
For more information about WiredRE and its data center research and advisory services on data center design, planning, brokerage and finance visit www.wiredre.com.
FiberMedia Group will be one of the companies participationg at today’s DatacenterDynamics Conference, on the CONVERGED Panel, “Is Engineering Flexible Enough to Cope with Future IT Demands?” with fellow industry leaders Stephen Worn, DatacenterDynamics as moderator, Dean Nelson, eBay, Kfir Godrich, HP Technology Services, James Kennedy, RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, Inc. Here are some of the questions these industry tastemakers be asking. Have we reached a point in the evolution of the data center industry where facilities cost escalation compared to IT hardware costs is unsustainable? This panel will discuss whether engineering is innovating quickly enough to meet future enterprise IT demands, can modularity [in its many form] deliver this, and what does the future hold for traditional data center builds?
FiberMedia’s Engineering and Executive team, including Michael Bucheit and Chris Baldwin, Sr. VP Engineering and Operations are the ideal candidates to respond, because FiberMedia Group creates customized data center solutions for it’s customers. With growing space and capabilities, FiberMedia Group offers sustainable solutions, cost-effective pricing and delivers custom builds for its clients. With a variety of high priority customers in the Financial Services, Healthcare, Information Technolgy, Content and other sectors moving a high level of information across a number of platforms, the FiberMedia team are experts in asking in depth questions about the future of the data center industry.
Find out more at 4:50pm - 5:30pm today at DatacenterDynamics Converged at the Marriot Marquis in NYC, today, March 13th, 2012. This industry networking event pulls together the people, processes and technology necessary to execute a world class data center strategy under one roof.
Saturday, 10 March 2012
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012
In a world of $1,000 per square foot real estate, experienced planning and coordination are critical. WiredRE and Deerns America Align to Provide Data Center Design and Project Management Services
The cost structure and intent of data centers is rapidly changing under the pressure of cloud computing and its move toward massive scale and efficiency. To adapt in a meaningful way, Wired Real Estate Group Inc.(“WiredRE”), the nation’s leading data center advisor, announces growing momentum in its partnership with Deerns America, offering data center design and project management services. The Alliance was created to offer world-class support, bringing more innovative opportunities to the data center design process and related project management services.
As an interesting reference, Bernard Golden's blog at CIO.compointed out that there is an old school perspective that cost advantage through “utilization” focused on more efficient use of existing design center patterns. Though, new contemporary perspectives look at transforming the cost basis of data centers by creating new design patterns. “It’s critical to integrate the technical aspects of data center development, design and operations with business planning and commercial feasibility. With experience advising half of the top investment banks in the US, our commercial planning and advisory practice looked to further integrate design and operational expertise via a best-in-breed design firm. We wanted a strategic partner that was exclusively engaged on mission critical infrastructure, and Deerns was an obvious fit,” commented Everett Thompson, CEO, WiredRE. “Deerns has an 80+ year track record producing high-efficiency designs for more than 2,300,000 SF of IT space worldwide, with an IT power of more than 670MW.”
WiredRE’s alliance with Deerns Supports its Holistic Approach to Data Center Real Estate Advisory Solutions
With this highly focused expertise, The Deerns/WiredRE Alliance intends to support large and small-scale developments with integrated solutions for high-density and high-efficiency computing, from feasibility assessment and conceptual design, through commissioning and full-scale operations. Deerns is exclusively focused on critical infrastructure, including Data Centers, Operations Centers, Airports, Hospitals, Clean Rooms, and Level 3 and 4 Bio Hazard Labs, with a strong emphasis on energy efficiency, reliability, modularity, and scalability. Most recently, Deerns has provided data center design and project management services to Green House Data, and DR Fortress, and design recommendations to Travelport.
Innovative features that will be rapidly deployed include technologies such as Guiding the Cloud©and Green Cooling for Data Centers©. In fact, expectations are that their 100% free cooling solution will find a strong audience. For more information about Deerns’ solutions for critical infrastructure, visit www.deerns.com. To find out how WiredRE’s holistic approach to data center real estate advisory solutions visit www.wiredre.com.
Friday, 9 December 2011
According to the panelists at the Greater New York Data Center Summit held on November 29th in NYC, northern New Jersey and suburban industrial spaces are expected to see new development in the next 5-10 years as the need for data centers continues to grow. There is a blatant demand for secure, customized data center facilities to meet the needs of information technology businesses The telecom industry is expanding beyond traditional borders.
“We need space!”
This message was very clear throughout the event. Needs for reliable and secure data storage continue to climb for businesses of all sizes, and New Jersey is a place business can flourish. Furthermore, flexible, expandable space were hot topics indeed.
It is the state of NJ that is setting the trend for national data center development. As inventory of space remains an issue throughout the US, there is an estimated 800,000 square feet of industrial space in the state of New Jersey, with more than 16 different data center providers.
But there are solutions.
FiberMedia provides superior cloud networking solutions for your growing business with 5 data centers throughout NY/NJ Tri-state area. Furthermore, FiberMedia is a key player helping to bolster New Jersey’s emerging economic rise in this technology space. While many companies are just discovering the opportunities here, FiberMedia is firmly rooted as a provider of choice offering enterprise class resources on-demand.
To learn more about FiberMedia’s New Jersey data centers you can checkout their Jersey City (http://www.fibermedia.net/locations/jersey-city-nj/) facility or visit their marquee site in Secaucus, NJ (http://www.fibermedia.net/locations/secaucus-nj/)
“We need space!”
This message was very clear throughout the event. Needs for reliable and secure data storage continue to climb for businesses of all sizes, and New Jersey is a place business can flourish. Furthermore, flexible, expandable space were hot topics indeed.
It is the state of NJ that is setting the trend for national data center development. As inventory of space remains an issue throughout the US, there is an estimated 800,000 square feet of industrial space in the state of New Jersey, with more than 16 different data center providers.
But there are solutions.
FiberMedia provides superior cloud networking solutions for your growing business with 5 data centers throughout NY/NJ Tri-state area. Furthermore, FiberMedia is a key player helping to bolster New Jersey’s emerging economic rise in this technology space. While many companies are just discovering the opportunities here, FiberMedia is firmly rooted as a provider of choice offering enterprise class resources on-demand.
To learn more about FiberMedia’s New Jersey data centers you can checkout their Jersey City (http://www.fibermedia.net/locations/jersey-city-nj/) facility or visit their marquee site in Secaucus, NJ (http://www.fibermedia.net/locations/secaucus-nj/)
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Learn, Listen and Explore Affordable Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Solutions
Agility Recovery, Continuity Centers and FiberMedia are joining forces to bring you a Business Continuity Open House on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 from 2:00pm-6:00pm at FiberMedia’s Chappaqua data center. Learn how the combined strengths of each company guarantees continuity of operations following a disaster of any sort. There will be a presentation theatre, facility tours and a wine and cheese reception. To register for the event please click here.
This is an opportunity for accounting firms, enterprise businesses, municipalities, heath care organizations, hosting providers, IT companies, law firms, service providers, financial institutions and more! Come network and meet with leading companies that can together provide your business a comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity solution.
Business continuity is more than just data protection. It’s about people, technology and infrastructure. For more information and to register for the event, please visit http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?481887 or email jsa_fibermedia@jaymiescotto.com.
We hope to see you on October 12th!
Agility Recovery, Continuity Centers and FiberMedia are joining forces to bring you a Business Continuity Open House on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 from 2:00pm-6:00pm at FiberMedia’s Chappaqua data center. Learn how the combined strengths of each company guarantees continuity of operations following a disaster of any sort. There will be a presentation theatre, facility tours and a wine and cheese reception. To register for the event please click here.
This is an opportunity for accounting firms, enterprise businesses, municipalities, heath care organizations, hosting providers, IT companies, law firms, service providers, financial institutions and more! Come network and meet with leading companies that can together provide your business a comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity solution.
Business continuity is more than just data protection. It’s about people, technology and infrastructure. For more information and to register for the event, please visit http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?481887 or email jsa_fibermedia@jaymiescotto.com.
We hope to see you on October 12th!
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