Data Foundry

Data Foundry

Type	Privately held company
Industry	Telecommunications IT Services
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Ron Yokubaitis - Co-CEO and Founder Carolyn Yokubaitis - Co-CEO and Founder Jonah Yokubaitis – Principal and Founder Shane Menking - President and CFO Edward Henigin - Chief Technology Officer Mark Noonan - Vice President of Sales Sunday Yokubaitis - Sr. Vice President Cameron Wynne – Vice President of Operations
Website	datafoundry.com

Data Foundry, founded in 1994 as Texas.net, was the first Internet Service Provider in San Antonio and one of the first 50 Internet Service Providers in the United States. As a data center services provider with facilities in Austin and Houston, Texas, Data Foundry provides services for data center outsourcing, disaster recovery and IP solutions to a wide variety of platforms and companies including cloud computing, High-performance computing (HPC), oil and gas, healthcare, hosting services providers and financial services companies.

Data Foundry owns and operates three data centers in Texas. It's Houston Data Center (HDC1) has offered secure colocation and IP solutions since 1997. In 2003, Data Foundry established its Austin Data Center (ADC1), which is a 40,000 square foot (3,700 m2) colocation facility located in Austin, Texas.

In August 2010, Data Foundry started construction on a 40-acre (16 ha) Data Ranch campus in Austin, Texas. The first phase of Texas 1, the first data center on the Data Ranch, opened in July 2011.^[1] Located in a region with a low incidence of natural disasters, Texas 1 provides a reliable environment for production and back-up IT infrastructures.^[2]

Data Foundry Austin Data Ranch specifications

• 40-acre (160,000 m²) campus
• Campus will have space up to 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m²) of data center
• Redundant power, water and fiber feeds
• 17+ telecom and IP Carriers
• Ability to deliver over 100 megawatts of power to the campus
• Campus independently-fed by two 400 megawatt substations

Texas 1 Data Center specifications

• 130,000 square feet (12,000 m²) in Phase 1 and 120,000 square feet (11,000 m²) in Phase 2
• Dual independent water utility feeds
• End-to-end underground power feeds ^[3]
• 10,000 SF worksite recovery center, includes dedicated offices, seats and conference rooms with customizable layout options
• Single cabinets up to multi-megawatt deployments
• FM-200 fire suppression system

Texas 1 supports the unique requirements needed for High Performance Computing configurations^[4], including a chilled water plant design which separates HPC cooling from traditional air flow, water cooled cabinets. Texas 1 can facilitate power densities of 50kw per cabinet.

References

1. ^ "Commercial Real Estate: What's going up". Austin American-Statesman. 4 August 2010. http://www.statesman.com/business/real-estate/commercial-real-estate-whats-going-up-842048.html. Retrieved 19 August 2010. 
2. ^ Development "Choosing the Right Data Center for Disaster Recovery Planning". 8 February 2011. http://www.areadevelopment.com/siteSelection/jan2011/data-center-disaster-recovery39992.shtml=Area Development. 
3. ^ "Colocation Firm Data Foundry Powers Texas 1 by Two Feeds". 31 May 2011. http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/053111_Colocation_Firm_Data_Foundry_Powers_Texas_1_Data_Center_by_Two_Feeds. Retrieved 31 May 2011. 
4. ^ "Data Foundry Addresses High Perforamnce Computing Demands with Data Center". 16 March 2011. http://technews.tmcnet.com/smart-data-centers/topics/smart-data-centers/articles/154766-data-foundry-addresses-high-performance-computing-demands-with.htm. 

External links

• Datafoundry.com