NetRiver Offers Off-Site Advantages for Companies' Computer Needs

Business Wire,  April 24, 2008  

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Company Provides Reliable Full-Service Data Center and a Way to Save Office Space

SEATTLE -- With office space in high demand, tenants are seeking ways to maximize their real estate. NetRiver, a provider of scalable and reliable data centers and inter-connection services in the Seattle area, offers companies an alternative to housing large, energy-hungry servers in their offices, from the Puget Sound and beyond.

By utilizing data centers, or server farms, companies can convert server rooms into usable office space. Through data centers businesses can grow their computing environment without the overhead associated with major tenant build-outs and required upgrades. Strategically, this environment provides a better mechanism for companies to grow and ensure their mission critical servers are always running. With a down-turned economy, companies are cautious of budgets and server farms offer an effective way to mitigate a necessary expense.

NetRiver provides unique technology to serve clients' requirements including top-down cooling techniques and a power backup system. This cooling technique permits greater server density meaning clients don't need to rent as much server space and it allows for 30 to 40 percent greater energy efficiency, lowering clients' costs. The power backup system ensures an inconspicuous transition from the primary power source to the diesel generator backup power if necessary. Therefore if power goes out where NetRiver houses their servers, clients across the country would never know that NetRiver had switched to generator backups. According to Adam Vierra of NetRiver, "We're able to ensure our clients have uptime 24 hours a day."

Everett Thompson, a wired data center real estate practitioner in San Francisco explains, "IT managers are looking for ways to save precious office real estate while ensuring their server needs are met, and NetRiver is able to provide the technology to meet their needs in the most energy efficient and secure manner possible."

About NetRiver

NetRiver is the leading provider of scalable and reliable network-neutral data centers and interconnection services in the Seattle area. Their new Lynnwood Number One data center, commissioned in 2007, provides a highly resilient and scalable environment for carriers, internet content companies, hosting firms, and enterprises to scale their operations. Its most salient feature is its high-density design, allowing clients to take maximum advantage of virtualization and blade servers.

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