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Data center and Internet hosting company Internap Network Services Corp. opened its second facility in the Boston area today, increasing its available hosting space locally and landing online backup company Carbonite Inc. as its anchor tenant.
The new space at 50 Inner Belt Rd. in Somerville is part of a 45,000 square-foot “green” colocation facility developed by Atlanta-based Internap (Nasdaq: INAP).
Carbonite’s president, Keith Cooper, joined Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Internap executives in the opening ceremony.
The facility uses such “green” technology and construction techniques as ultrasonic humidification, air economizers, circuit level power monitoring, white roofing to deflect heat and custom-built cooling systems that ramp up and down based on temperature changes. During the ceremony, NSTAR presented an energy efficiency rebate check to Internap for $453,000, in recognition of the green initiatives in the building.
Internap now has 45 data center locations around the world. The new facility is rated a Tier 3 data center built to withstand harsh meteorological events like floods, hurricanes and blizzards, according to officials.
In September of 2008, Boston-based Carbonite opened up a data center in Beijing, becoming the first online backup vendor to offer a local data center in China, company officials said.
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