Mission Critical Solutions
Tour and overview of mission critical solutions narrated by Robert Batta.
Remote Racking Tool Demo - Arc Flash Safety
Short video demostrating the use of CBS Arc Safe's remote racking tool.
Sustainability – Onsite Food Waste Digestion
Mechanical composting machine to process food waste from cafeteria
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Published: Apr. 05, 2010
By: Sean Sposito, The Star-Ledger
Mitsu Yasukawa/The Star-Ledger
Robert Batta handles one of the systems in an uninterrupted power supply room at a Cervalis data center in Totowa. New York financial firms are relying more on data centers in the Garden State.
To passersby, the squat two-story building in Totowa might look like a vacant office park. There are no signs of activity, save a few cars dotting the parking lot. But inside the gated facility, workers are preparing to build a server farm the size of a football field — outfitted with miles of fiber-optic wiring and hundreds of computers — to store data for Wall Street financial firms some 20 miles away. As New York City’s financial services industry struggles to cut back on IT spending, many companies are turning to data centers in New Jersey like this one, which is being built by Connecticut-based Cervalis. Data center providers say the Garden State is an ideal location for these facilities because of the lower real estate and construction costs. At the same time, it is still close enough to New York to guarantee fast data transmission speeds.
“It’s what we call the ‘Doughnut’ — you want to be just far enough from New York City, but not too far,” said Michael Boccardi, chief executive of Cervalis.
Mitsu Yasukawa/The Star-Ledger
Batta shows off a network operations center at the Cervalis facility in Totowa.