E Solutions Clients Tout the Virtues of New Tier Three-Compatible Data Center.Tampa Firm's Newest Data Center Exceeds Majority of Uptime Institute Standards for Highest Levels of Availability, Maintainability, Security and Redundancy TAMPA, Fla. -- Renovations are complete at E Solutions Corporation's newest data center, where several of the firm's marquis clients - including the 2006 World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals For the National Football League team that played in St. Louis from 1960 to 1987, see . The St. Louis Cardinals (also referred to as "the Cards" or "the Redbirds") are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. - are already enjoying the security and high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. offered by one of the nation's premier data centers. "We are happy to know that our intellectual capital is hosted and protected in one of the nation's premier hardened facilities," said Cardinals Vice President and Assistant General Manager John Mozeliak. "E Solutions has been a trusted development and hosting partner since 2003, and we are glad to be counted among the current clients in their new data center." The Tampa-based hosting and application development firm tripled its data center capacity in February with the acquisition of Genuity, Inc.'s Tampa assets. Since then, E Solutions has made significant capital investments in renovations and upgrades to meet the Uptime Institute's requirements for Tier Three classification. These upgrades make the new data center ideal for companies with high-availability requirements such as financial, healthcare and news organizations, as well as technology-based and VoIP companies, emergency and other government agencies. "The 2004 Stanley Cup Stanley Cup: see hockey, ice. Stanley Cup Trophy awarded annually to the winning team of the National Hockey League championship. Named for its donor, the Canadian governor-general Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston Champion Tampa Bay Lightning The Tampa Bay Lightning is a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida, USA. It is a member of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). have always had the utmost confidence in E Solutions' hosting capabilities, and our recent move into their newly renovated Tier Three-capable data center has only added to that confidence," said Martin Quessenberry, Director of New Media, St. Pete Times Forum Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference American Airlines Center | General Motors Place | HP Pavilion | Honda Center | Jobing. , home to the Lightning. "E Solutions' new facility is truly a bunker and a testament to their continued dedication to customer security and service. We are truly delighted to have our Internet properties, 'Arenavision' live arena camera, and website hosted in the premier data center and hosting facility in Tampa Bay Tampa Bay, inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, 25 mi (40 km) long and 7 to 12 mi (11.3–19 km) wide, W Fla., separated from the Gulf by numerous small islands; it receives the Hillsborough River. St. ." The Uptime Institute developed a four-tiered classification system for infrastructure functionality that has become the standard for the uninterruptible uptime industry. Classifications range from Tier One - having system component redundancy and a single power distribution path - to Tier Four, with fully redundant (N+1) system components and dual active power distribution paths delivering 24x7x365 services in highly competitive market spaces requiring extremely high availability. There are only a handful of Tier Four data centers nationwide. "Our renovations focused on re-engineering our redundant power distribution paths and outfitting the data center with new environmental and monitoring systems necessary for a level of redundancy, high-availability and system integrity that is second to none in the region," said E Solutions CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Richard Nicholas. "Combine that with our physical location on Tampa's two high-priority power grids, a concrete reinforced bunker surrounding the exterior of the data center, Kevlar-reinforced walls, and a facility designed to withstand major hurricane force winds, and our facilities are physically able to withstand man-made or natural disasters. "We have the highest level of redundancy available, which allows us to provide our clients with both physical security and the expert technical staff to support them throughout any event," he added. To prepare its newest data center for occupancy, E Solutions spent eight months: * Replacing telco switch A large-scale computer system that is used to switch TDM-based, circuit-switched telephone calls. Also called a "voice switch," Lucent and Nortel Networks are the primary vendors of this equipment. See end office switch and tandem switch. gear and installing new N+1 Parallel UPS systems with bypass capabilities and monitored Power Distribution Units * Enhancing the power grid to provide 13.8 kV utility input voltage, which is transformed through their own dedicated substation to ensure multiple paths for utility power to the N+1 UPS system * Upgrading the cooling systems cooling systems for housed animals include spraying of roofs with water, evaporative pads with fans, foggers and misters; for pastured animals shelter from the sun by trees or artificial shade devices and cooling ponds are used. , including seven 20-ton Liebert Air Conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. units with redundant glycol glycol (glī`kōl), dihydric alcohol in which the two hydroxyl groups are bonded to different carbon atoms; the general formula for a glycol is (CH2)n(OH)2. loops, multiple pumps and dry coolers * Testing and maintaining functionality for two 800kW Caterpillar generators and ASCO ASCO American Society of Clinical Oncology ASCO Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (since 1941; Rockville, Maryland) ASCO Australian Standard Classification of Occupations ASCO Automatic Switch Company automatic transfer switches E Solutions is housed inside the region's 'Telco Hotel,' which provides direct fiber connectivity to the firm's diverse carriers burstable to OC192, and on top of the global telecommunications infrastructure, so bandwidth can quickly be added to its private conduits as necessary. The data center also features surveillance and around the clock monitoring, as well as state-of-the-art physical security. About E Solutions Corporation E Solutions (www.esnet.com) is a Tampa-based hosting and application development firm that creates and hosts software solutions that enable clients ranging from global Fortune 100 firms to mid-sized and small businesses to attain significant return on their IT investments. Services performed at the firm's multiple data centers include custom application design and development; co-location and fully managed enterprise-level hosting services; network management and security; web statistical reporting; and streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. services. |
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