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The Top 10 Largest Data Centers

Planet Lowyat — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:14:49 +0000

The Teliti International is building up a brand new data center outside of Kuala Lumpur. The data center are three-storey facility, at a 5.8 acre brownfield sit and 120,000 sq ft facility. How about the existing data center like TMNet MYLOCA Cyberjaya, TMNet Brickfield, TMNet CSF Cyberjaya, NTT Cyberjaya(20,000 sq. ft), FreeNet Cyberjaya, Basis Bay Cyberjaya(77,000 sq ft), Heitech Padu Shah Alam, Kompakar CRC(66,000 sq. ft) Jaring TPM(30,000 sq. ft), AIMS KL & Cyberjaya(17,500 sq. ft)? Probably you can name it more and share with us!

So what is the sizes of data center consider big or large? According to Datacenterknowledge, these large data center fortresses range between 400,000 and 1.1 million square feet. And The World Top 10 Largest Data Centers(up to dated) are:

10. The SuperNAP, Las Vegas (Switch Communications)
9A and 9B. Microsoft Data Centers in Quincy Washington and San Antonio
8. CH1, Elk Grove Village, Ill. (DuPont Fabros)
7. Phoenix ONE, Phoenix (i/o Data Centers)
6. Microsoft Dublin (Microsoft)
5. Container Data Center, Chicago (Microsoft)
4. NGD Europe, Newport Wales (Next Generation Data)
3. The NAP of the Americas, Miami (Terremark)
2. Metro Technology Center, Atlanta (Quality Technology)
1. 350 East Cermak / Lakeside Technology Center (Digital Realty)

Check out more detail at here.

Google largest off shore data center in Taiwan

Planet Lowyat — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:48:19 +0000

While we’re(Malaysian) talking about setup Google office in Malaysia recently. In fact, Google is considering establish the largest off-shore data center in Taiwan.

According to the Chinese-language Commercial Times newspaper reported by Digitimes

Taiwan Economic Affairs Minister Steve Chen indicated that MOEA is making efforts to attract Google’s investment but Google has not yet filed an application with MOEA, indicated the paper. The lot of land is located in an industrial park developed by MOEA, noted the paper.

I think it would be great if Google can setup a new office and data center in Malaysia especially Cyberjaya(Malaysia Cyber City)

Updated: Slashdot

Technorati Tags: Google, data center, cyberjaya, taiwan, off shore

Transport Allowance in Cyberjaya

Planet Lowyat — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:30:27 +0000

Attention to anyone would like to work or already worked in Cyberjaya!

Below are transport allowances providers by most of the multinational company operate in Cyberjaya Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Probably you can compare as personal reference. The amount may not accurate due to many reasons such as company policy change from time to time. However you can have a basic idea about the transport allowance in Cyberjaya. If anyone has the latest update, please share with me.

Shell – RM 1000

DHL – RM 700 (used to paid RM 1100)

Intel – RM 200 toll allowance + transport allowance – 10% of your salary salary – too bad closing down very soon

Fujitsu – RM 650

Atos Origin – RM 400

TRW – RM 400

BMW – RM 400

HP – RM 350

Dell – RM 300

Satyam – RM 300

IBM = RM 300

OCBC E2 -RM 200

HSBC – RM 200 OR RM 0 (to be confirm)

Motorola – RM150 (as comment)

ACS – RM 0(used to have RM 600 before)

EDS – RM 0 (to be confirm)

TMNET Streamyx – RM 0(as comment)

To be update:

FSBM – RM ?

MEASAT Satellite Systems – RM ?

Panasonic R&D Center – RM ?

Ericsson – RM ?

Prudential Services – RM ?

NTT – RM ?