In the past six months, organisations across 12 industries and 27 countries - including Credit Suisse, UBS, Digital Realty Trust and Power Loft - have signed up for EYP MCF's data infrastructure services. More than 500 companies have worked with EYP MCF to design their data centres, command and control centres, trading floors, and supercomputing sites. As a result of the high demand in mission-critical services projects, HP plans to broaden its EYP MCF services availability to more countries.

"Companies from all over the world are turning to HP to design and build the next-generation data centres required for high-density scalable computing", stated Peter Gross, chief executive officer, EYP Mission Critical Facilities. "By offering customers the right solutions to complex energy-efficiency and optimization challenges, we are giving them the keys to adapt and transform to meet changing business needs."

EYP MCF designs energy-efficient data centres for Power Loft and others. Power Loft is a privately held company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, that specializes in the development and ownership of high-density, high-security data centres. Recently, Power Loft signed an agreement with EYP MCF to design a data centre in San Antonio, Texas. EYP MCF also designed and provided engineering consulting services on Power Loft's first data centre, located in Virginia.

Both of Power Loft's facilities will be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified and, upon completion, will operate using 52 percent less power than comparably sized data centres.

By partnering with EYP MCF, Power Loft is able to apply industrial design concepts within the data centre to maximize energy efficiency with zero reduction to overall reliability. The result is lower energy costs for Power Loft and its customers, driven by a data centre that meets the company’s needs today and into the future.

Other examples of EYP MCF's recent data center design projects include:

• Designing a technology company's energy-efficient technology infrastructure at its U.S. headquarters
• Providing mission-critical consulting services for a Tier IV data centre master plan across a top U.S. university's statewide, multi-campus data centre environment
• Designing a high-profile, energy-efficient data centre in Iceland, offering reliability levels from Tier I to IV and LEED Platinum certification EYP also consulted with global financial services firm UBS on its data centre design. "Ensuring that we have the right infrastructure in place to support continuous uptime and reliability, while reducing energy costs is a big priority for UBS", stated Stephen Peters, executive director, Corporate Real Estate, UBS. "EYP MCF understands these priorities and helped us to design our critical data centres to achieve these business objectives."

With one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of servers, storage, services and software, HP is helping customers build next-generation data centers to drive competitive advantage. EYP MCF’s capabilities add facilities expertise to the HP Data Center Transformation portfolio.