CyrusOne says that Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) will occupy a 10,000 square foot data hall in CyrusOne's newest co-located data center located in West Houston. PGS will co-locate high-density, mission-critical data and applications servers to support exploration projects and operations worldwide.

These data processing systems and applications support several critical functions at PGS, including large-scale seismic data processing, complex reservoir analysis and interpretation and electromagnetic services. PGS desired a data center solution that could provide a secure, scalable, high density environment for the enormous amounts of vital data needed to sustain the success of its business.

'CyrusOne proved an ideal partner in that they met our performance requirements, matched our commitment to reducing environmental impact and were cost efficient,' said Bill Rickert, Manager of Global Compute Resources. 'Their long-term mutual commitment in these areas gave us the confidence to choose CyrusOne as our North American data center provider.'

Cost Efficiency PGS conducted a thorough cost analysis that contrasted the cumulative lifecycle expense associated with building and maintaining a data center, leasing, or co-locating with a provider. PGS had three options: to retrofit in their existing data center; to build a new site; to relocate their data center and co-locate with CyrusOne. After modeling the possibilities and weighing their options, PGS determined it was more cost efficient to leverage CyrusOne's co-location services.

'The cost to build a high-density data center is prohibitive in most cases, particularly when a co-location provider can meet or exceed high-density requirements at a lower lifecycle cost,' said Dave Ferdman, President and CEO of CyrusOne. "Most companies that build their own data centers run into retrofit or upgrade issues a few years down the road, which drives the cost even higher. Top tier data centers such as our new West Houston location are future-proof, providing optimal power consumption in conjunction with the most advanced, scalable high-density architectures available.'

A unique component of the advanced data center design that CyrusOne uses is to build using modular 10,000 square foot data halls. Large data centers contain several or even a dozen or more of these halls, each compartmentalized and controlled using integrated redundancy protocols and monitoring units to achieve superior overall performance and reliability. Another component that CyrusOne uses is advanced, or progressive, power architectures to ensure that power capabilities consistently meet or exceed customers' most advanced requirements, without compromising or elevating the environmental impact.

'Top tier data centers are monitored and optimized on a continual basis; thus, they remain ahead of the curve and able to meet customers' most demanding requirements as they evolve,' Ferdman noted.

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