{"id":652921,"date":"2013-04-17T11:33:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/?p=95851"},"modified":"2013-04-17T11:33:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:33:18","slug":"pivot-data-centres-building-bigger-in-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652921","title":{"rendered":"Pivot Data Centres Building Bigger in Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pivot Data Centres<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivotdci.com\/news-room\/bid\/95913\/Pivot-Data-Centres-Announces-Major-Expansion\">announced<\/a> the construction of an 80,000 square feet data center in the greater Calgary area. The facility will be undergoing Uptime Institute&#8217;s Tier 3 certification process for design and construction. When complete later this year the expansion will have 450 racks, with capacity for over 1,000 total.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a very exciting day for Pivot Data Centres and we are proud to be announcing the construction of this state-of-the-art colocation data centre, the largest and most advanced of its kind in Alberta,&#8221; said Michael Koury, Chief Executive Officer. &#8220;Beyond local interest, we are seeing a strong uptick from companies across Canada and internationally, who are looking for a data centre presence in Western Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new data center will include features such as indirect outside air cooling capability, biometric security systems, redundant power and advanced fire detection and suppression systems, as well as 7&#215;24 on-site security and technical support teams. The data center will also house a fully-equipped business resumption center for its customers and will be SSAE 16 PCI compliant.<\/p>\n<p>Pivot&#8217;s six month old 40,000 square foot data center in Edmonton is more than 50 percent occupied and the company has added a full megawatt of power to its Calgary data center. Pivot&#8217;s 30 percent year-over-year growth is reflected in its capacity, which has tripled in the last two years, and the company continues to have strong financial support to achieve its growth objectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pivot Data Centres announced the construction of an 80,000 square feet data center in the greater Calgary area. The facility will be undergoing Uptime Institute&#8217;s Tier 3 certification process for design and construction. When complete later this year the expansion will have 450 racks, with capacity for over 1,000 total. &#8220;This is a very exciting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}