Oil exploration service company Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) will occupy a 10,000 square foot data hall in CyrusOne’s newest co-located data center located in West Houston. 

The Oslo, Norway-based company will co-locate high-density, mission-critical data and applications servers to support exploration projects and operations worldwide.

These data processing systems and applications support several critical functions at PGS, including large-scale seismic data processing, complex reservoir analysis and interpretation and electromagnetic services. PGS desired a data center solution that could provide a secure, scalable, high density environment for the enormous amounts of vital data needed to sustain the success of its business.

“The cost to build a high-density data center is prohibitive in most cases, particularly when a co-location provider can meet or exceed high-density requirements at a lower lifecycle cost,” said Dave Ferdman, president and CEO of CyrusOne. Most companies that build their own data centers run into retrofit or upgrade issues a few years down the road, which drives the cost even higher.”

A unique component of the advanced data center design that CyrusOne uses is to build using modular 10,000 square foot data halls. Large data centers contain several or even a dozen or more of these halls, each compartmentalized and controlled using integrated redundancy protocols and monitoring units to achieve superior overall performance and reliability.

CyrusOne’s West Houston data center offers the highest power redundancy (2N architecture) and highest power-density infrastructure, supporting 250+ watts per square foot across the entire data center floor. The facility is positioned with access to significant and redundant utility power feeds and access to the fastest and most reliable telecommunications networks, as it is located along a major fiber corridor in Houston.