Nieuws artikel -- September 17, 2009

CSC Opens Green Data Center in New York State

Facility also houses CSC’s Business Service Outsourcing Center (BSOC)

Slicing a bright red ribbon with giant scissors, New York State CIO Melodie Mayberry-Stewart marked the official opening of CSC’s new data center near Albany. The ribbon-cutting ceremony kicked off at 9:00 a.m., Thursday, September 17, and was followed by an open house during which visitors toured the facility.

CSC cited its 26 years of support for the New York State Department of Health, and an ongoing commitment to the state, as reasons for locating the new data center complex in Rensselaer, just outside the state capital. Furthermore, the Green data center’s energy-efficient practices are in keeping with the area’s eco-sustainability efforts.

CSC’s Business Services Outsourcing Center (BSOC) shares the building with the data center. The BSOC offers shared services within a number of key functional areas including call center and mailing house capabilities.

Nearly 500 CSC employees currently work in the capitol region.

Facts and Figures

Facility: Rensselaer Data Center

Address: 327 Columbia Turnpike, Rensselaer

Square Footage: 128,000 square foot complex – Newly constructed facility within existing leased structure with roughly 18,000 sq. ft. dedicated to the data center

10,097 sq. ft. of 36” raised flooring (nearly ½ acre)

5,000 sq. ft of deployable raised floor space

Tenant: CSC

Approx. No. of Employees More than 250 employees,including 65 new hires in September 2009

Investment: $30 million+

Landlord: Upstate Construction, Donald Hart

Architect: Gensler, Robert Duran

General Contractor: BBL Construction Services

Interesting Statistics and Facts:

• Two mainframe computers are capable of two billion instructions per second.
• In addition to the mainframes, the data center comprises over 600 smaller computers referred to as servers.
• Data from the mainframes and the servers have a total capacity of 100 terabytes. This level of storage is enough to house the electrical equivalent of nearly four times the 28 million books in the entire Library of Congress.
• Connections to the outside world are provided by 125 circuits, supported by145 network devices and a PBX designed to accommodate up to 40,000 users.
• Security systems were established to meet Department of Justice Security Level IV and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), as well as CSC and industry best practices.
• The data center was designed, built and commissioned to meet Uptime Institute’s Tier III requirements; only a small portion of computing facilities in the U.S. meet Tier III data center standards.
• 70 miles of various sizes of wires and cables run through 16 miles of electrical conduit.
• Two 2250kW diesel generators could each power the entire data center should the utility power or the other generator fail for some reason.
• Facility achieved ISO 9000:2000 certification; a designation that can be attained only after satisfying many control and quality objectives.
• Cutting-edge energy savings features truly qualify the data center as a “green” initiative.
• The data center will support a number of current and planned processing projects located in upstate New York, including two major state Medicaid programs, a Medicare Part D prescription program and several private healthcare projects.