No Tourists, Please

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/columns/0,4164,2585365,00.html

June 12, 2000 3:11 AM PT

You snooze, you lose. The lucky chosen few who attended AboveNet
Communications' fourth colocation facility's opening ceremony have
been the only people allowed to see the inside of the San Jose data
center on a public tour. For security reasons, the facility is now
closed to visitors. The data center, first of the 19 that AboveNet is
constructing around the globe with a $1.4 billion budget, has CNet,
eBay and Hotmail as colocation customers.

Back To Business

The eagle has landed. Turns out Don Detampel, who gracefully bowed out
of GlobalCenter's chief executive job after Leo Hindery took the helm,
has not been spending all his time in Denver with his family as he
intended to. Chances are that by the time the new school year rolls
around, Detampel will be steering another effort in Silicon Valley.
Detampel now fronts a company called One Secure, which calls itself a
"NORAD [North American Aerospace Defense] of network security." The
effort already cleared $40 million in seed money though a venture
capitalist round led by Crescendo Ventures and Telecom Partners.

Worldwide Expansion

And the world has another content distributor now, but this time with
an Asian infrastructure twist. Banking on the idea that Asian
companies would want to offer their goods and service to each other
and then to partners in the U.S. and Europe, @Network has embarked on
a massive data center build-out in Asia that would give it seven data
centers in Asia and one in San Jose by the end of June. By the end of
the year, 15 more facilities would come online. @Network plans to woo
its customers via partnerships with third parties, which would offer
every service under the sun, including help in penetrating Asian
bureaucracy and public relations via local agencies.


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