CenturyLink’s new data center will keep ‘the cloud’ safe
June 7, 2014
Grazed from StarTribune. Author: Steve Alexander.
In an effort to make computing services nearly as reliable as the telephone, CenturyLink last week opened Minnesota’s first high-reliability “Tier 3” public data center in Shakopee.
CenturyLink, based in Monroe, La., is best known to Minnesotans as the state’s largest telephone company. But it has bet its future on the belief that data center services such as “cloud computing will make up for a decline in the use of its traditional phone service caused by cellphones. And it believes opening a rare Tier 3 data center will be a lure for computing customers in the Twin Cities…
Being rated Tier 3 on a scale of one to four means the $26 million Shakopee data center has so many redundant controls, power feeds and communications links that it will remain operational 99.982 percent of the time, according to the New York-based Uptime Institute, an independent organization that rates the reliability of data centers. In other words, the new data center will be out of service no more than 94 minutes every year…
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