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SAN FRANCISCO DATA CENTER BEATS GOAL
OF 99.999% UPTIME

 
365 Main continues to stand above the competition by delivering
100% levels of continous operations

SAN FRANCISCO, CA., January 13, 2004 – 365 Main, the Bay Area’s Safest Data Center, today announced the state of the art facility has successfully maintained 100% uptime since its inception March 2001 and re-launch May 2003. Industry wide, data centers are designed to a standard uptime of 99.999% . 365 Main continuously exceeds this industry standard.

“High availability is a combination of many factors including proper design, construction, testing, commissioning and ongoing maintenance activities,” said Ron Hughes, President of California Data Center Design Group, a firm who specializes in conducting data center performance audits. “365 Main’s excellent availability record is a credit to the operations and maintenance staff who focus on maintaining 100% uptime. As a result of their efforts, a number of high profile clients have chosen to locate at their data center.”

By surpassing the five-nines milestone, 365 Main further establishes itself as the go-to facility with the necessary investments to ride through any worst-case scenario. Equipped with ten 2.1 Megawatt continuous power systems, an N+2 or greater facility–wide redundancy, an award-winning base isolation system, and 60,000 gallons of fuel on-site, 365 Main’s structural resiliency is unmatched by any other data facility in the region. 365 Main’s customers continued to perform at 100% during one of the Bay Area’s largest power outages of recent history. 365 Main’s customer data remained online, accessible, and secure.

“We fully recognize the fact that even 15 minutes of unplanned downtime has a major impact to our client’s bottom-line, especially the online retailers,” said James McGrath, Vice President of Customer Deployment, 365 Main. “365 Main’s technology investments and technical experts work 24x7 all 365 days each year striving to meet the stringent demand for high-availability web-based mission-critical operations.”

About 365 Main
365 Main, is a privately held company based in San Francisco Bay Area's finest data center. For Bay Area businesses that require secure, reliable data-center infrastructure, 365 Main provides a superior, neutral environment that uniquely ensures continuous operations at a fraction of the cost of its competitors. 365 Main is owned and operated by a unique partnership bringing together the strengths of Rockwood Capital, a real estate investment company with over $1.5 billion of assets under management, Union Property Capital, a highly focused San Francisco based development company and 365 Incorporated, the skilled team that conceived, designed, built and that now operates the state-of-the-art facility. For more information on 365 Main, please contact Deborah Lao at 415-364-0000 or visit http://www.365main.net.

About California Data Center Design Group
Founded in 1990, the California Data Center Design Group (CDCDG) was formed to bring together the best resources in data center design, engineering, construction and technical project management. CDCDG provides consulting services to address the ongoing requirement for the creation of highly secure, fault tolerant, ultra reliable data centers for both the public and private sectors. In its first decade CDCDG has established a premier list of clients including the State of California’s two largest data centers, HHSDC and the Stephen P. Teale Data Center, The US Air Force, Wells Fargo Bank, Sutter Health Systems, Silicon Graphics, NEC, Kaiser Hospitals, AT&T, Telegis Networks, Kio Networks and BJK data centers.

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