Cisco runs out of capacity

Cisco is expected to open a new data center facility in Richardson, Texas in the next two weeks to help it keep up with its growing capacity requirements, reports Data Center Knowledge.

"We were out of capacity,"Sidney Morgan, manager of IT engineering systems at Cisco, is quoted as saying. "We were physically out of floor space. After a while, the capacity issue was no longer even floor space, but power and cooling."

The facility is a retrofit of an existing building it owned in Dallas, according to the report. Cisco covered the glass facade of the four-story facility and reinforced the walls. There is another data center planned on an adjacent piece of land in Richardson, but that will likely be a one-story greenfield site, the report adds.

The article reads:

The building’s mechanical systems were upgraded to the equivalent of Tier III on the Uptime Institute’s tier scale, while the electrical infrastructure was engineered for Tier IV-level redundancy.

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