NTT America Announces LEED Gold Certification For its Ashburn, VA Data Center

by admin on September 28, 2009

NTT America, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. NTT Communications Corporation, announced today that its Ashburn Data Center, located in northern Virginia, has earned a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

LEED is a rating system for green building developed by the USGBC and is a benchmark nationally recognized for design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. The LEED system awards points for satisfying specified green criteria to address human health and the environment, including: Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, Energy and Atmosphere, Materials and Resources, Indoor Environmental Quality and Innovation and Design.

Besides being LEED certified Gold, Ashburn Data Center is SAS 70 Type II certified since October 2009 and has the topology of the infrastructure in line with the classification criteria while maintaining the level III and Uptime Institute the level of performance.

The data center offers enterprise customers the flexibility of integrating Managed Services and placement services to meet the specific needs of your solution. NTT America Managed Services portfolio includes installation in Ashburn managed storage, managed security, managed and Back-up, Virtual Hands and Professional Services. The facility also offers an industry leading SLA which includes commitments for network and power availability and temperature and humidity to comply with ASHRAE standards.

“We are proud to announce the gold LEED certification of our facilities Ashburn,” said Tarif Abboushi, Vice President of Data Center Infrastructure, NTT America. “Certification allows us to offer our customers access to a state of the art green facility. The certification also demonstrates our commitment to environmental management and represents significant progress against the goals of our firm Green Initiative.”

In addition to offering its customers access to green data centers, NTT America helps customers meet their own targets for carbon balanced with Green IT Hosting, a carbon offset program that enables customers to offset the carbon footprint IT teams.

NTT America Other measures taken as part of your company Green initiative include using energy-efficient servers, purchasing carbon offsets to balance the emissions from their own IT equipment, improving management and more efficient flow air in data centers, alternative energy supplies, improve recycling company around, and subsidize public transit and telework.

About NTT America
NTT America is the natural gateway to North America to Asia-Pacific region, with strong capabilities in the U.S. market. NTT America is the U.S. subsidiary NTT Communications Corporation, the global data and IP services arm of the leader of the Fortune Global 500 telecom: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT). NTT America provides world-class Enterprise Hosting, managed network, and IP networking services for enterprise customers and service providers worldwide.

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