Green House Data

Green House Data
Private company
Industry Colocation, Cloud Hosting, Managed Hosting
Founded 2007
Headquarters 340 Progress Circle
Cheyenne, WY  82007
Key people
 Shawn Mills, Thomas Burns, Cortney Thompson, Co-Founders
Website www.greenhousedata.com

Green House Data is a data center services provider headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Cheyenne is home to a campus with 45,000 square feet of data center space, administrative and technical support offices. The company has additional data center locations in Washington, Oregon, New Jersey, and New York, with sales and marketing offices in Laramie and in Denver, Colorado.[1]

History

In 2007, three friends hatched the idea for a data center powered exclusively by renewable energy over coffee and soon after began the process of retrofitting a former office building to provision 3000 square feet of colocation space.[2] By March 2012, Green House Data had doubled the footprint in the Cheyenne location, added cloud hosting products, and expanded its footprint to the west coast.[3] In December 2013, an east coast expansion was announced,[4] and by August 2013, the company had broken ground on a new facility in Cheyenne.[5] The second Cheyenne location officially opened on July 30, 2014.[6] In September 2014, 1547 Critical Systems Realty and Green House Data announced that the company would be an anchor tenant in a redevelopment at 1 Ramland Road in Orangeburg, New York.[7]

In April 2015, the company acquired FiberCloud,[8] a Seattle, WA based provider of colocation, cloud hosting, and other data center services. With this acquisition, Green House Data added three data centers in Washington state, as well as nearly 20 employees and several hundred customers.

Emerging Markets

The company is part of a new surge in data center construction in the Cheyenne region and across the Rocky Mountains. Cheyenne has been ranked as a top 5 location for data centers,[9] with Microsoft, Echostar, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research all operating facilities in the city.

In addition, Green House Data's most recent facility in Orangeburg represents entry into the Rockland County market, which is just beginning to emerge as a new data center cluster. It is home to facilities operated by both Bloomberg L.P. and Verizon.

Sustainable energy

As a whole, the data center industry has been highly criticized for heavy electrical use,[10][11] and in recent years has actively tried to reduce power consumption by improving facility design[12] and increasing server virtualization.[13] As a key element of their business model, Green House Data purchases renewable energy credits, or RECs, for wind power and documents purchases with the EPA's Green Power Partnership. In 2013, Green House Data was part of EPA's "Leadership Club" for sustainable power purchases.[14] A common measure for data center power consumption is Power usage effectiveness, often abbreviated PUE.

Beginning in 2014, Green House Data was the first company to participate in WyoRECs, the first renewable energy credit program based out of Wyoming.[15]

In April 2015, Green House Data joined the EPA's Top 30 Tech & Telecom list of the largest green power users, retiring over 8 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually.[16]

Compliance

In July 2011, the company's cloud and colocation facilities achieved SSAE 16 Type II Compliance.[17] Additionally, in 2012, Green House Data achieved HIPAA IT compliance.[18]

Data Centers

Green House Data operates two colocation data centers in Cheyenne, and two cloud data centers, in Portland and Newark. A new colocation and cloud data center was recently announced in Orangeburg, New York, scheduled to open in early 2015.

With the acquisition of FiberCloud in April 2015, Green House Data operates three data centers in Washington, including one in the Westin Building in Seattle, WA; one in Everett, WA; and one in Bellingham, WA. The Westin Building data center consists of the 18th and 19th floors, with participation in the Seattle Internet Exchange.

In the news

In October 2014, Green House Data was recognized as a Top 100 Cloud Services Provider by Talkin' Cloud,[19] making the list for the second consecutive time.[20] In February 2014, Green House Data was recognized as a Top 500 Managed Service Provider[21] by CRN Magazine. In 2014, Green House Data became the first B Corp in Wyoming.[22]

Green House Data CTO Cortney Thompson was interviewed as part of a Marketplace radio piece by Wyoming Public Media covering government IT departments moving to cloud services and data centers.[23]

In August 2013, the state of Wyoming was announced as the first anchor tenant in Green House Data's second Cheyenne facility.[24]

References

  1. ↑ "Contact Us". Green House Data. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Alger, Douglas (2012). The Art of the Data Center: A Look Inside the World's Most Innovative and Compelling Computing Environments. US: Prentice Hall. p. 368. ISBN 978-1587142963.
  3. ↑ Lee, Justin. "Green House Data Expands Cloud Hosting to West Coast with Oregon Data Center". article. the WHIR. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  4. ↑ Miller, Rich. "Green House Data Expands to New Jersey". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  5. ↑ Woods, Annie. "Local Data Center to Break Ground on Expansion". Cheyenne LEADS. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  6. ↑ Bryan, Miles (July 31, 2014). "Data Center Expansion Opens In Cheyenne". Wyoming Public Media. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "Green House Data to Launch New Data Center at 1547’s 1 Ramland Road location in New York". Hosting Journalist. September 7, 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "Green House Data Buys Three Washington Data Centers". Data Center Knowledge. April 6, 2015. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "Wyoming ranks in top 5 for locating data centers". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  10. ↑ "Company Data Center Facilities and Estimates of Power Demand". Report. Greenpeace. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  11. ↑ Glanz, James. "Power, Pollution and the Internet". Article. New York Times. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  12. ↑ "Resources on Data Center Energy Efficiency". US Department of Energy. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  13. ↑ Curtis, Cynthia. "Energy Savings: One of the Key Benefits of Server Virtualization". Computer Associates. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  14. ↑ "Partner List". EPA. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  15. ↑ Coyle, Pamela. "Wyoming Renewable Energy Credit Program Helps Companies 'Green' Their Power". http://businessclimate.com/''. Journal Communications. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  16. ↑ / "Green House Data Joins Top 30 Tech & Telecom Green Power Users". Green House Data. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  17. ↑ "Green House Data Achieves SSAE 16, Type II Compliance". Green House Data. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
  18. ↑ Runyon, Barry. "Healthcare Reform Driving Cloud Services Providers Toward Maturity". Gartner. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  19. ↑ http://talkincloud.com/TC100/talkin-cloud-100-2014-edition-ranked-51-75''. Missing or empty |title= (help);
  20. ↑ Panettieri, Joe. "Top 100 Cloud Services Providers (CSP) List and Research". Talkin' Cloud. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
  21. ↑ "Green House Data Named to CRN's Managed Service Provider 500 List". Green House Data. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  22. ↑ "B Corp Community". B Corp. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  23. ↑ Bryan, Miles. "State governments experiment with cloud computing". Marketplace. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  24. ↑ "State of Wyoming Announced as New Colocation Client During Grand Opening". Green House Data. Retrieved 12 August 2014.

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