HP's 6 Global Delivery Hubs with Data Centers

November 10, 2010 Dave Ohara

HP Enterprise Services announced its 6 Global delivery hubs.

HP Expands Best Shore Global Sourcing Model; Names Six Global Delivery Hubs

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 10, 2010

HP Enterprise Services today announced the expansion of Best Shore – its global services delivery model – by designating six countries as global delivery hubs that will grow to support increasing client demand for cost-efficient, scalable services that effectively meet business needs.

This expansion is part of the $1 billion investment HP announced in June to transform and grow its Enterprise Services business.

Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, India, Malaysia and the Philippines are the designated delivery hubs. These mature HP Best Shore locations operate in time zone-relevant countries and will offer a significant employee base that can deliver various highly scalable services to clients across the globe. These centers also will offer multiple capabilities in each location, including applications, infrastructure technology and business process outsourcing services.

In this announcement there is no mention of data centers. But, how can you put 6 Global enterprise services organizations as a hub without a data center. Digging a bit I found the announcement about the Malaysia facility. and found the data center part.

Built on sustainable design principles, this 60-acre campus represents another investment the company is making to drive strategic growth in Asia. Serving global HP Enterprise Services clients, the center is home to one of six HP Best Shore global delivery hubs and, as part of future investment plans, will house a client-centric HP Next Generation Data Center. Driving HP innovation and addressing internal business needs, this global center also boasts an internal HP Global Application Development and Support Center and a HP Global Finance Center.

if you check out this video about the Malaysia facility you can see it needs the 24x7 service requirements of a data center as part of the service is NOC and customer support services.

I've taken many trips to Southeast Asia back when I was developing Southeast Asia fonts for Win3.1. Malaysia has the space to support data centers and customer support facilities. Singapore is often discussed as a location for data centers due to its network access, but building big data centers in Singapore is tough.

Here is an HP video of the Russelheim data center.

What's in Dell's move to Quincy, WA? Competing with IBM and HP?

November 2, 2010 Dave Ohara

Wenatchee World has the story on Dell coming to Quincy, WA for a data center.

Secret's out? Dell headed here

Blog: Everyday Business

By Mike Irwin

November 2, 2010

Dell, the world's third-largest computer company, has purchased property in Quincy that could become the site of the Columbia Basin town's newest data center, the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce reported this morning.
Underway for months, the top-secret purchase — known as Project Roosevelt — would add the computer manufacturer to Quincy's list of tech industry standouts, such as Microsoft and Yahoo.

DataCenterKnowledge has more details.

Officials with the Port of Quincy have confirmed that the deal is related to Project Roosevelt, the code name for a data center that could include grow to 250,000 square feet over time. The initial specifications call for 7 megawatts of power, ramping up to 30 megawatts over time. The search also considered sites in Douglas County.

Why is Dell building 7 MW with growth for 25 MW? Perot systems is the competitor of HP/EDS and IBM services. Perot systems doesn't have the data center inventory that HP and IBM has.

Converged infrastructure is a hot topic, and it is much easier to sell a converged infrastructure solution when you have the data center contract. The Dell data center is most likely a cost effective solution for hosting, gives a low carbon data center alternative, and becomes a showcase for Dell/Perot.

Dell announced today the acquisition of Cloud Solution SaaS company Boomi.

Dell to Acquire Boomi; Adds Industry’s No. 1 Integration Cloud™ Solution to SaaS Capabilities

Date : 11/2/2010

Round Rock, Texas

Dell today announced it has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration leader Boomi to help businesses reap the full value of cloud computing. Powered by its revolutionary AtomSphere technology, Boomi offers the industry’s only pure SaaS application integration platform that takes the cost and complexity out of integrating applications by allowing easy transfer of data between cloud-based and on-premise applications with no appliances, no software and no coding required.

Google's Lenoir Data Center, 30 megawatts, 708 Lynhaven St SW, Lenoir, NC

October 28, 2010 Dave Ohara

There is a common belief you can't find a Google Data Center using Google Maps. Well here is the Google Lenoir, NC data center at 708 Lynhaven St SW, Lenoir, NC. Data Center friends estimate the power to be 10 megawatts for the building maybe 15 max.

I found the address here, but Lynhaven is misspelled.

This one was in Lenoir, N.C., nestled in the rolling hills of Caldwell County at 708 Lynnhaven St. Never heard of it? That's okay. Google likes it that way, nice and secretive. For perspective, Lenoir is about 70 miles northwest of Charlotte.

Using Bing Maps you can see what the site looked like before construction.

The red circled area shows where the substation will go. Here are substations added to the site.

Here is a closer view of the data center.

The resolution is quite good and you can see the construction is not complete.

Mapquest shows the building further along with cars at the support building.

South of the site looks like another data center being built.

MasterCard Campus with Main Data Center achieves LEED Gold for existing building

October 19, 2010 Dave Ohara

LEED is typically discussed for new data centers, but you can achieve LEED certification as well for existing structures.

Here is the press release.

MasterCard Campus is First in Missouri to Earn Green Building Certification

MasterCard Technologies Facility achieves Gold certification in the LEED® for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance rating system.

St. Louis, October 19, 2010 - MasterCard Worldwide today announced that its main technology campus in O’Fallon, Missouri, has achieved Gold certification in the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance (LEED®-EBOM) rating system. Established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute, LEED is the preeminent program for the design, construction, and operation of high-performance green buildings.

The Data Center is mentioned as part of the site.

The 550,000-square-foot MasterCard Technologies campus, which is the company’s largest facility and home to its main data center, is the first project in Missouri to earn LEED-EBOM Gold certification.

Out of 550,000 sq ft how much is data center space? What I have been finding in the financial sector the space reported for data centers is lumped in with office worker space. How much work does the data center do?

In 2009, $2.5 trillion in gross dollar volume was generated on its products by consumers around the world. Powered by the MasterCard Worldwide Network — the fastest payment processing network in the world — MasterCard processes over 22 billion transactions each year, has the capacity to handle 140 million transactions per hour, with an average network response time of 140 milliseconds and with 99.99 percent reliability.

My initial guess is the data center space is less than 5 MW. So, let's find the MasterCard O'Fallon facility.

The facility is listed.

St. Louis
OPERATIONS CENTER2200 MasterCard Blvd
O’Fallon, MO 63368+7263 U.S.A
Telephone: 636.722.6100

Google maps shows the site at 200 MasterCard Blvd.

Bing Maps shows a nicer view to look at the data center. Go to Bird's eye view and you see how much of the space is used for office space with all the cars.

And you get a better view of the data center cooling system and generators.

So what is a guess on power? Asking an expert.

Looks like only 3 generators – probably not 3.0 MW since this has been around a little while – so I would guess 2.5 MW each. N+1 with some reserve for HVAC – maybe 4.0 MW of critical load. Maybe 3.0 MW

So, 3 - 4 MW of critical load capacity to run MasterCard's main data center.

NYSE is run on less than 2.5 MW. MasterCard main data center is run on less than 4 MW.

How much smaller do you think Financial data centers could be if they were built on Hadoop and HBase?

NYSE Mahwah Data Center Aerial views

October 12, 2010 Dave Ohara

60 minutes covered the opening of the NYSE data center and they promised not to disclose the site location.

Robot Traders of the NYSE

In a secret new building in New Jersey, high-speed computers decide which stocks to buy and sell. Could this kind of automated "trading floor" lead to Wall Street's next "flash crash"?

In Steve Kroft's "60 Minutes" report on high-frequency trading, you heard how most stock trades in the U.S. are no longer made by humans, but by computers capable of buying and selling stocks at warp speed.

I won't give the address. Yet. :-) I did find the address in a public source though. Just lucky researching low latency technology NYSE uses and there it was the address.

Here are pictures from Bing Maps and Google maps.

Any guesses on the power on site given the cooling picture below?

Here is the bare dirt.