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      Video: Thank You Essential Data Center Workers


      Colocation, cloud and network services are at the heart of keeping us connected and the economy moving during the COVID-19 pandemic. To sustain peak performance, these services rely on the tireless and difficult work undertaken by frontline data center engineers and technicians.

      In the video below, INAP leadership shines the spotlight on our 100-plus essential data center workers, whose terrific performance enables our thousands of global customers to successfully operate their businesses through a period of immense challenge.

      Please join us in thanking them!

       

      At the outset of the pandemic, world governments classified certain sectors of the workforce as “essential” to the functioning of society. Along with healthcare, food service and transportation workers, data center employees were a fixture of these lists.

      Due to the behind-the-scene nature of their jobs, however, the world’s data center professionals are arguably the unsung heroes of the COVID-19 crisis. From e-learning and online gaming to telemedicine and work-from-home video conferencing, life would grind to a halt if not for data center operations teams.

      The pandemic necessitates these employees operate through less than ideal scenarios. On top of managing unprecedented surges in network demand, INAP’s data center operations team is navigating new policies and procedures implemented for their health and safety. This includes a “no access” that restricts colocation customers and non-essential vendors and contractors from entering our facilities. For a subset of our colocation customers, one result of this particular restriction has been an uptick in remote hands requests, wherein INAP technicians perform mission-critical maintenance to server and network hardware that’s normally the responsibility of the customer. It’s highlighted to our customers just how skilled our teams are at managing complex systems.

      Across the board, the team’s performance has not wavered during the pandemic. In many cases, it’s exceeded expectations.

      Our Los Angeles team, for instance, is staying on schedule with the first phase of a 1.8 MW expansion at our flagship facility in Redondo Beach, working carefully with contractors and utility companies all the while maintaining a live Tier 3 facility.

      The team’s attitude sacrifice and performance each and every one of our employees has made during the pandemic remind us how essential they are year-round, not just in times of crisis. None of us could do what we do without them.

      Ryan Hunt
      • Director of Content & Communications


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      The Flagship Series: Montreal Data Center Market Overview


      Montreal is gaining global prominence as a data center hotspot. While the market is still smaller than that of its Canadian-counterpart, Toronto, professional organizations are taking note of the opportunities to be had in this Quebec-based market.

      Named the “best location in the world to set up a data center” by the Datacloud world congress, Montreal won the Excellence in Data Centres Award in June 2019. And datacenterHawk notes that they believe Montreal will soon overtake the Toronto market as the last two years have seen rapid expansion. The major industries using this data center space in Montreal include technology, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, tourism and transportation

      Roberto Montesi, INAP’s Vice President of International Sales, said that the data center market is growing fast in Montreal because of the low cost on power and land taxes. “The colder temperatures also permit us to run free cooling up to 10 months a year,” he said, noting that Montreal and Canada have a great relationship with the U.S. “It’s an easy extension for any American business to come up to Montreal and have access to so much great talent in our industry.”

      Considering Montreal for a colocation, network or cloud solution? There are several reasons why we’re confident you’ll call INAP your future partner in this competitive market.

      INAP’s Mark on Montreal

      INAP maintains four data centers and POPs in Montreal, including three flagship facilities. INAP’s Saint-Léonard (5945 Couture Blvd) and LaSalle (7207 Newman Blvd) flagships are cloud hosting facilities operated by iWeb, an INAP company.

      INAP’s Nuns’ Island flagship at 20 Place du Commerce offers high-density environments for colocation customers. The Nuns’ Island facility is a bunker-rated building and functions on a priority 1 hydro grid, the same as hospitals in the area. In addition to these features, our expert support technicians are dedicated to keeping your infrastructure online, secure and always operating at peak efficiency.

      Each INAP Montreal data center features sustainable, green design with state-of-the-art cooling and electricity that’s 99.9 percent generated from renewable sources. Customers are able to connect seamlessly with other major North American cities via our reliable, high-performing backbone to Boston and Chicago.

      Metro-wide, our Montreal data centers feature:

      • Power: 20 MW of power capacity, 20+ kW per cabinet
      • Space: Over 45,000 square feet of raised floor
      • Facilities: Designed with Tier 3 compliant attributes, located outside of flood plain and seismic zones
      • Energy Efficient Cooling: 2,500 tons of cooling capacity, N+1 with concurrent maintainability
      • Security: 24/7/365 onsite personnel, video surveillance, key card and secondary biometric authentication
      • Compliance: PCI DSS and SOC 2 Type II

      Download the Montreal Data Center spec sheet here [PDF].

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      Gain an Edge with INAP’s Connectivity Solutions

      INAP’s connectivity solutions and global network can give customers the boost they need to outpace their competition. And Montreal is the perfect place to take advantage of INAP’s connectivity solutions. “We also have fiber rich density coming up from Ashburn and Europe. This makes us a great location for customers looking for Edge locations,” said Montesi.

      By joining us in our Montreal data centers, customers gain access to INAP’s global network. Our high-capacity network backbone and one-of-a-kind, latency-killing Performance IP® solution is available to all customers. This proprietary technology automatically puts outbound traffic on the best-performing route. Once you’re plugged into the INAP network, you don’t have to do anything to see the difference. Learn more about Performance IP® by reading up on the demo and trying it out yourself with a destination test.

      INAP Interchange for Colocation

      Considering Montreal for colocation, but not sure where the future will lead? With INAP’s global footprint, which includes more than 600,000 square feet of leasable data center space, customers have access to data centers woven together by our high-performance network backbone and route optimization engine, ensuring the environment can connect everywhere, faster.

      With INAP Interchange, a spend portability program available to new colocation or cloud customers, you can switch infrastructure solutions—dollar for dollar—part-way through a contract. This helps avoid environment lock-in and achieve current IT infrastructure goals while providing the flexibility to adapt for whatever comes next.

      INAP Colocation, Bare Metal and Private Cloud solutions are eligible for the Interchange program. Chat with us to learn more about these services, and how spend portability can benefit these infrastructure solutions.

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      The Flagship Series: Seattle Data Center Market Overview


      It’s fitting that a city known for its cloudy days in home to two of the largest players in cloud computing. The Seattle data center market is growing, bolstered by local industry, Northern California-based expansions and cloud infrastructure investments from Microsoft and Amazon.

      Home to coffee, technology and online retail conglomerates, Seattle’s other major industries include aerospace and health care. The burgeoning cloud market is fueled by relatively low power costs and connectivity options available to the cloud computing businesses in the city and surrounding suburbs. The area also experiences months of cool and rainy weather, allowing for free cooling for the data centers located here, a benefit for data center operators and tenants alike.

      The demand in the Seattle data center market is high, with a new absorption rate of 25.3 MW. In 2019, the average size of deployments was on the rise, with many users requiring multiple megawatts plus room for expansion.

      Considering Seattle for a colocation or network solution? There are several reasons why we’re confident you’ll call INAP your future partner in this competitive market.

      INAP’s Flagship Seattle Data Centers

      INAP, which was founded in Seattle in 1996, maintains two flagship facilities and a POP in the market. With our suite of Connectivity Solutions – Cloud Connect, Metro Connect and Network Connect, you can reliably link your infrastructure with endpoints in public clouds throughout Seattle and around the globe.

      Connect to Chicago and Silicon Valley via INAP’s reliable, high-performing backbone, and benefit from Metro Connect fiber that enables highly available connectivity within the region via our ethernet rings. Paired with Performance IP®, INAP’s patented route optimization software, customers in our Seattle flagships get the application availability and performance their customers demand.

      Here are the average latency benchmarks on the backbone connection from Seattle:

      • Chicago: 49.2 ms
      • Silicon Valley: 19.0 ms

      Our facilities in Seattle offer over 101,500 square feet of space, with 57,000 of square feet of raised flooring. NOC and onsite engineers with remote hands are available 24/7/365.

      Download the overview of INAP’s presence in Seattle here [PDF]

      140 4th Avenue

      This Tier 3, carrier neutral, SOC 2 Type II facility in downtown Seattle offers interconnectivity via high-performing direct backbone connections to Chicago and Silicon Valley on INAP’s high-capacity private network.

      • Space: 40,000 square feet
      • Power:3 MW
      • Network: Performance IP® Mix—AT&T, Cogent Communications, NTT, Zayo, Comcast, Verizon, INAP

      Download the spec sheet on this downtown Seattle flagship data center here [PDF]

      3355 120th Place

      Our Tier 3, carrier neutral, SOC 2 Type II facility located just outside of downtown Seattle is concurrently maintainable, energy efficient and supports high power-density environments of 20+ kW per rack.

      • Space: 65,000 square feet
      • Power:6 MW
      • Network: Performance IP® Mix—AT&T, Cogent, NTT, Zayo, Comcast, Verizon, INAP

      Download the spec sheet on this Seattle flagship data center here [PDF]

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      Spend Portability Appeals for Future-Proofing Infrastructure

      Organizations need the ability to be agile as their needs change. With INAP Interchange, INAP Seattle data center customers need not worry about getting locked into a long-term infrastructure solution that might not be the right fit years down the road.

      The program allows customers to exchange infrastructure environments a year (or later) into their contract so that they can focus on current-state IT needs while knowing they will be able to adapt for future-state realities. For example, should you choose a solution in a data center in the Silicon Valley, but find over time that you need to be closer to a user base in Phoenix, you can easily make the shift.

      Colocation, Bare Metal and Private Cloud solutions are eligible for Interchange.

      Learn more about INAP Interchange by downloading the FAQ.

      Laura Vietmeyer


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