NTT Comware Tokyo Data Center, given the large increase in the floor area-- The large scale-ever floor area increase for 7,000m2 of Data Center at convenient locations in Tokyo, 5-minute walk from Yamanote Line stations --

2008.06.24

NTT Comware Tokyo Data Center, given the large increase in the floor area
-- The large scale-ever floor area increase for 7,000m2 of Data Center at convenient locations in Tokyo, 5-minute walk from Yamanote Line stations --

NTT Comware Corporation (below, NTT Comware, Head office, Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Michio Sugimoto) commenced a project to increase the scale of NTT Comware Tokyo Data Center in convenient locations as within 5-minute walk from the nearest stations of JR Yamanote Line. Its services will start in November 2008. This scheme is to provide services of NTT Comware Data Center to meet a variety of needs of customers at a reasonable price while pursuing the Green IT initiatives (PUE target 1.3 (^*1) ) and improving the carrier-grade (e.g. the telecommunication carriers level disaster-proof performance and securities requirements).

Background

NTT Comware provides the Data Center services with high level of disaster-proof performance and credibility at four locations in Japan such as Tokyo, Saitama, Osaka and Kyoto. This is based on the technologies and knowhow ranging from configuration, monitoring, maintenance to operation, which were accumulated through its business solutions for telecommunication infrastructure and mission-critical systems of NTT group companies. With further increase of the needs for IT outsourcing services in line with business continuity and high awareness of regulatory compliance, the number of users and the floor area required for the Data Centers keep rising as well. Under these circumstances, NTT Comware decided to increase the floor area of Tokyo Data Centers to meet the increasing needs in Tokyo.

Location and Convenience of Tokyo Data Center

NTT Comware Tokyo Data Centers are located in areas rated at "Low Risk: Rank 1" by Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Survey (the 6th) (^*2), which received the highest evaluation of Bureau of Urban Development Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The centers are all located in a district within 5-minute walk from the nearest stations of JR Yamanote Line/Subways. These are also easily accessible from main roads. There are also accommodations and convenience stores available in the neighborhood for the users.

Measures for the Global Environment and High Density/Heat Equipment

NTT Comware actively applies "the high voltage direct-current power supply technology", which has been addressed by NTT Group aiming at improving the efficiency in use of the power required for Data Centers (PUE 1.3 in five years) and tackles on how to further reduce the loads to global environment through the activities of the Green Grid, a non-profit organization to promote energy conservation of Data Centers since 2007.
In addition, in order to meet the massive demands for the services and needs of users to store their high density/ heat equipment such as Blade Server, it is aimed to achieve the system for cooling and power supply at a low cost and high efficiency by using the best practices of various partner companies including NTT Facilities, according to the past experiences of design and operation.

Solutions for Outsourcing

Based on the affluent experiences and achievements supporting various mission-critical communication infrastructures, NTT Comware provides FSC24, the IT operation and management outsourcing services for monitoring/maintenance/operation of the important data network of the customers for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. NTT Comware also obtained the certification of the international standard "ISO/IEC20000" of IT service management based on ITIL (^*3) for credibility of the customers and further improvement of service qualities. The following is the endorsement from NTT Facilities.

From NTT Facilities Inc., participating in the Green Grid activities for a uniform design, configuration, maintenance, operation and management of the Data Center buildings:

NTT Facilities endorses for NTT Comware's active policies aiming at reducing the loads to the global environment as well as improving the service quality. As power consumption required for IT equipment is increasing year by year, eco-friendly systems and energy are in high needs. NTT Facilities supports to create the sound environment of the Data Centers and its operations with high liability and energy conservation for the global environment using the experiences involved in building more than 30% of the Data Center environments in Japan.

Yasuyuki Koizumi
Senior Executive Vice-President
Senior Executive Manager
Data Center Environment Building Headquarters
NTT Facilities, Inc.

Terminology

^*1.PUE
Power Usage Effectiveness. This is the efficiency of power use in the Data Centers. The closer to 1 in value the higher efficiency. PUE=(the total power consumption of Data Centers) / (power consumption of IT equipment in Data Centers)

^*2. "Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Survey (the 6th")
This is an indicator of relative evaluation of the general hazard level upon probabilistic survey for earthquakes based on the rating of vulnerability to building collapse and fires incurred by earthquakes for 5,099 districts in the urban area of Tokyo. It was publicized by Bureau of Urban Development Tokyo Metropolitan Government in February 2008. Rank 1 is the highest as glow riskh (5 ranks).

^*3. ITIL
Best Practices for IT Service Management (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). This is the trademark or registered trademark of OGC (Office of Government Commerce, UK) in England and other countries.

* FSC24 is the registered trademark of NTT Comware Corporation.

* Names of corporations and products are either trademarks or registered trademarks of each corporation.

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