TierPoint completes TekPark data center expansion
Tom Paine
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| Ribbon cutting ceremony at TekPark last week with Jerry Kent, Chairman and CEO and Bob Hicks, Sr. Vice President-Operations, both holding the scissors / Courtesy TierPoint |
Data Center operator TierPoint this week announced the completion of its planned expansion of its TekPark data center near Allentown, Pennsylvania. The $12 million expansion adds nearly 14,000 sq. ft. of high-density data center space to the facility, bringing the total to nearly 43,000 sq. ft. The project additionally establishes baseline infrastructure to support the next phase of expansion, according to TierPoint.
TierPoint says it presold approximately 30 percent of the expansion to a northeast New Jersey financial services firm.
TierPoint operates six data centers in southeastern Pennsylvania. I profiled TierPoint and its national and regional expansion strategies earlier this year. Bob Hicks, TierPoint Senior Vice President of Operations, is responsible for its Pennsylvania operations. Last year, TierPoint completed an expansion of its Valley Forge data center that increased usable space by 150%.
St. Louis-based TierPoint now has 39 data centers in 20 markets with approximately 600,000 total square feet of raised floor space. It's headed by Jerry Kent, former CEO of cable firms Charter Communications and SuddenLink, and is backed by a powerful group of investors.
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Dell Boomi’s Salesforce Integration Delivers Critical Visibility and Collaboration for Dell Technologies
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Dell Boomi’s Salesforce Integration Delivers Critical Visibility and Collaboration for Dell Technologies
September 28, 2016 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dell Boomi today announced its data and application integration technology is supplying critical interoperability between the Salesforce Sales Cloud CRM instances that were in place at Dell and EMC before the historic merger. By using Dell Boomi’s market-leading AtomSphere integration platform as a service (iPaaS) to unify the disparate Salesforce systems, Dell Technologies has achieved vital visibility and collaboration to drive immediate business impact in such areas as cross-sell of complementary Dell and EMC products, revenue forecasting, sales pipeline management and supply chain planning.
“Boomi’s lightweight footprint and ease of use made development very straightforward work. It’s an extremely agile, cost-effective and robust platform that in this case addresses a critical high-priority need.”
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When the Dell EMC transaction was announced, sales force readiness and revenue forecasting were identified as critical considerations for a seamless transition on day one and beyond. Bridging the gap between the dual Salesforce systems became a priority to avoid the error-prone inefficiencies of sales reps, account managers and finance professionals manually reconciling and reporting on data from disconnected systems. The Dell Boomi iPaaS platform, connecting any combination of cloud and on-premises applications without the burden of installing and maintaining integration software or appliances, was the ideal choice to integrate the Dell and EMC Salesforce instances.
Collaborating with EMC IT and end-users from both Dell and EMC, Dell’s IT team completed development and testing work in only a few weeks, after reconciling disparate business rules and processes at the two companies. Launched into production when the merger finalized, Dell Boomi’s real-time, bi-directional integration has enabled visibility and collaboration across the unified Dell Technologies global sales team, comprised of more than 40,000 sales professionals. Sales team members have a single view of more than 50,000 open opportunities across the newly combined company to pursue cross-sell synergies across complementary server, storage, virtualization and PC technologies in the combined portfolio. The sales team can also easily identify competing “hot spot” products to avoid potential opportunity and pipeline conflicts.
At the executive and planning levels, Dell Boomi’s integration enables insight and control for revenue forecasting, pipeline management and supply chain planning without the delay and cost of manually exporting data from standalone Salesforce systems. As a result, Dell Technologies has the comprehensive, real-time visibility needed to accurately forecast revenue, better manage the sales team, ensure optimal inventory of components and react quickly to challenges.
“Dell Boomi plays a crucial role in the Dell-EMC combination by providing our unified team of more than 40,000 sales reps with visibility and collaboration from day one,” said Chris McNabb, CEO of Dell Boomi. “By using Boomi to integrate separate Salesforce Sales Cloud applications at both Dell and EMC, Dell Technologies is poised for rapid time to value and business impact from the start.”
McNabb said he anticipated that Dell Boomi would play a key role across the newly combined Dell Technologies landscape, offering a broad range of proven and flexible solutions for data and application integration, master data management (MDM) and API management. Dell has utilized its Boomi platform for about a half-dozen previous internal integration projects, including connecting Microsoft Azure Active Directory to a third-party fulfillment system to automate licensing order processes. EMC was a Boomi user itself, relying on Boomi for integration between Salesforce and an Aprimo marketing tool.
“Dell Boomi is immensely valuable for a large enterprise to do any-to-any integrations across either cloud or on-premises systems,” McNabb continued. “That a small development team could accomplish this initial Salesforce integration in only a few weeks illustrates the time to value and ease of use that has made Dell Boomi a leader in the integration platform as a service market.”
Kate Parsons, business owner and IT integration lead for the project, said Dell Boomi was the ideal choice for the Salesforce integration project. “Boomi came through in flying colors to get our salesmakers collaborating on day one,” said Parsons. “Boomi’s lightweight footprint and ease of use made development very straightforward work. It’s an extremely agile, cost-effective and robust platform that in this case addresses a critical high-priority need.”
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Dell Boomi delivers the first and only multi-purpose PaaS for AtomSphere integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), Master Data Management (MDM) and API Management, and enables customers to integrate any combination of cloud and on-premises applications without software, appliances or coding. Organizations of all sizes, from growing mid-market companies to very large enterprises, enjoy rapid time to value as a result of drastically reduced implementation times and substantial cost savings over traditional integration, MDM, and API management solutions. Visit http://www.boomi.com for more information.
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Commvault Celebrates 20 Years in NJ and 10 Years as a Public Company
Esther Surden
Publisher & Editor, NJTechWeekly.com
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| On Thursday, Commvault officials and 30 software developers rang the closing bell at the NASDAQ stock market. | Chiristopher Galluzzo |
Commvault, the tech company that built its headquarters on 55 acres in the former Ft. Monmouth area of Tinton Falls, threw itself a party Sept. 23 to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary and its 10th anniversary as a public company.
Similar celebrations took place at Commvault offices throughout the world.
Employees poured into the company’s atrium to hear a proclamation from Gerald M. Turning, mayor of Tinton Falls, and some words about the occasion from Commvault Chairman, President and CEO N. Robert Hammer and COO Alan G. Bunte.
Commvault employs about 2,600 people in Tinton Falls and around the world. Officials told NJTechWeekly.com that the company is the largest software employer in New Jersey, aside from Verizon.
Among other accomplishments, the mayor’s proclamation mentioned the company’s relationship with High Technology High School (Lincroft), which includes scholarships, internships and mentoring to help develop the next generation of software engineers.
In his remarks, Hammer noted that most tech companies aren’t around after 20 years. “That we are is a testament to a good clear vision of the startup focusing on data.” Bunte reflected that 20 years ago, the company had roughly $600,000 in the bank. “That would cover one and a half payrolls” today, he told the assembled group.
Although the market for data management has changed significantly over the course of the company’s history, Bunte said, “One thing has stayed the same. People still have a hard time finding their data, getting their data, recovering their data, etcetera. It’s been an interesting ride.”
During the event, NJTechWeekly.com asked Hammer where he sees the company going in the next five years. “We have a good solid foundation for growth,” he told us. “We are a data information management company, and our core business is around the management of data.
“Then we are extending that out to data creation, business process automation and analytics. In the future, we will be extending into software-defined storage and process-automation analytics. And with what we will do with our core [business], we can significantly grow the company over the next five years.”
Bunte added that his biggest challenge in the next five years will be to keep innovation going. “Size is the enemy of innovation. My job will be to keep the innovative culture and spirit and passion within the company as we continue to grow both in terms of revenue and in terms of customers.”
Commvault has a very employee-oriented culture, he said. “We do things only in the interest of customers, so we try to keep that presence pertinent. Then we are continually innovating, not just product and technology, but processes and ideas on how to run the company.” Trying to keep the pace of innovation going over the next five years will continue to challenge the company, he said, but Commvault is up to the challenge.
Asked if the company has enough space at its headquarters to accommodate the planned growth, Hammer noted that there wasn’t enough space in the building, but that there is enough space on the 55-acre campus.
“We’re not moving. When we built this campus, we built it to triple the size [of our company] on this property.”
Esther Surden is Publisher and Editor of NJTechWeekly, and a contributor to Philly Tech News. This article originally appeared in NJTechWeekly, and is republished here with her permission.
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