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[OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: Experience with Keynetz colocation?

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From: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan [ at ] highrise [ dot ] ca>
Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Experience with Keynetz colocation?
To: OddSox <oddsoxster [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:36 AM, OddSox <oddsoxster [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote:

> Just recently read about http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/million+data+centre+answers+cloud+call/5734784/story.html
>
> I don't know anything else about them but the article sounds promising...
>

Quoting from the article:
  "They say their centre, known as a Tier 3 facility, is the
capital’s first with backup power and spare Internet connections to
ensure a client is never knocked off-line due to a problem with an
Internet provider."

So, it's been more than 15 years since I worked at Magma, but when we
built their first "real datacenter", they had *all* that... Now, maybe
because Magma was an "ISP", they can claim it as a single internet
connection?  But Magma did the research to make sure they had seperate
fiber rings from all of Bell, Rogers, and hydro ottawa/telcom ottawa
at the time, and had redunant connections to all their upstreams
too...  But now that they are "primus" they might be considered
another "single internet connection" again?  And I can't see them
selling off their redundeant genset configuration either..  During the
great blackout, we kept the whole DC up and running, with internet
access to multiple teir 1s...

I'm not sure how they can claim they will be the only one in ottawa...
Others have been doing that in Ottawa for 15 years already...

I dunno, the article seems to be a lot of marketing speak... I've no
doubt a DC in Kanata is viable, but heck, most of the big tech
companies in Kanata have their own 10,000 sq ft datacenters already...

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