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Successful expansion at Green Mountain ’ s data centre site in Oslo region
Only nine months after the opening of the DC3-Oslo data centre , the site expands with an additional 4MW building . This second building is a built-to-suit project for a large international cloud provider and was delivered ahead of schedule despite the challenges posed by COVID-19 .
The data centre expansion consists of a new 4 MW data centre building , doubling the current capacity at the site . It also includes new backup generator sets and associated infrastructure . The total timeline was estimated at nine months and numerous sub-contractors and vendors were involved in the project .
“ The project progressed nicely although the COVID-19 situation posed challenges with for instance equipment deliveries . However , we managed to find alternative solutions and actually completed the project a few days ahead of schedule ,” said Project Manager , Håvard Lurås .
CEO of Green Mountain , Tor Kristian Gyland , said that the massive interest in this site will result in several new expansions in the near future . “ Norway ’ s abundance of lowcost renewable power , the government ’ s beneficial framework conditions and Green Mountain ’ s ability to deliver sustainable and high-quality data centres at a rapid speed to market make a strong value proposition . We have secured power and land to grow this site for several years to come .”
The DC3-Oslo site is perfectly situated in terms of power supply , infrastructure and connectivity , only 20 km from downtown Oslo . It is Green Mountain ’ s third data centre site in addition to its mountain hall facility outside Stavanger and the facility at Rjukan , Telemark . “ We expect to grow at all our three existing locations , but we also need to expand in other regions . We have already secured land at two different locations on the Norwegian west coast , at Kalberg and Haugaland Business Park .”
Data centres are the backbones of the modern digital society and consequently the demand will surge . “ A recent Altman Solon report shows that the Nordics will take up a disproportionate share of the expected growth in Europe , so I am very optimistic about the future ,” said Gyland .
Tanium expands cloud-based endpoint management platform to new countries
Tanium has announced that its cloudbased endpoint visibility and control solution , Tanium-as-a-Service ( TaaS ), is now available via local data centres in Canada , the UK , Brazil and Australia to support customers . By delivering TaaS via local data centres , Tanium is able to provide customers in these regions with enhanced TaaS performance , better support for their compliance programmes and high-fidelity endpoint data to inform their critical IT decisions . Additionally , TaaS has recently become available on the AWS Marketplace , which makes it the first endpoint management tool to be delivered on the platform . This allows AWS customers of all sizes to access the full range of TaaS capabilities , such as incident response and the remote delivery of fixes or patches to vulnerable devices .
These announcements come as many organisations are stepping up their support for a remote or hybrid workforce which demands the kind of increased business agility that can be provided by clouddelivered , as-a-Service solutions .
TaaS leverages Tanium ’ s patented architecture . It allows customers of all sizes to perform important IT operations , risk and security tasks with zero infrastructure and therefore no infrastructure-related overheads .
The platform offers organisations a high level of scalability and visibility as their number of endpoints grows .
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