Thursday, August 19, 2021

Japanese Government-Owned NTT Ltd Plans a 7-Data Center Campus Here on The Edge of Mesa's Dry Desert Sprawl

Add seven more data centers in one 'campus' to the City of Mesa's Data Center Alley

NTT announces LEED-certified, seventh US campus

Headed by NTT's Global Data Centers Americas division, the complete campus will include seven data centres and cover 1.5 million sq. ft., with a dedicated, on-site substation.

The first data centre will offer 36MW across six 6MW vaults and 126,000 sq. ft. of data floor space, suitable for deployments of all sizes.

Division CEO, Doug Adams, said: “The number of clients and major providers currently in the region, or set to be there soon, speaks to the fact that Phoenix has become a real data centre destination. We want to have a presence in the markets that make the most sense for our clients – Phoenix stood out as one of those markets, and the city of Mesa, in particular, was the perfect fit.”

The news followed a raft of US project developments from NTT year to date, including facilities in Chicago, Ill., and Hillsboro, Ore., as well as Santa Clara, Calif – on which there are more details in the next issue of Data Economy.

Due to open early 2022, Arizona will be the fourth US market for NTT since 2021, with the new campus located in Mesa, east of Phoenix.

Popular with data centre developers, NTT said the city has "more than 1,000 acres of shovel-ready property, a streamlined entitlement process, and competitive Foreign Trade Zone".

“Mesa is becoming one of the nation’s premier strategic hubs for companies like NTT, thanks to our affordable power and robust fibre network,” said Mesa Mayor John Giles.

“NTT has made an excellent decision in selecting our Elliot Road Tech corridor as the home for their new data centre campus.”

Developed by the US Green Boulding Council, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) scheme first launched in 2000, with the data centre specifications developed since 2009.

The Phoenix campus will be built to LEED certified specifications for core and shell, meaning NTT controls the design and construction of the entire mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), and fire protection system.

> NTT said the design will "conserve energy and reduce water usage at each of the data centres".

> Renewable energy options will also be available for clients looking to further decrease their environmental impact.

Other industry names with LEED accredited data centres include Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Apple. Equinix opened the UK’s first LEED Gold accredited data centre, the US$79 million LD6, in 2015 and other early pioneers included IBM, Global Switch and Cisco.

President and board director for NTT Ltd., Masaaki Moribayashi (pictured) said:

“We are pleased to take this next step in our US expansion plans with a new Phoenix campus. We’re continuing to show all of our clients who would like to accelerate their business growth through digital transformation that we’re committed to growing our global portfolio to better serve them and their business goals.”

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Source: https://www.capacitymedia.com/articles/3829379/ntt-announces-leed-certified-seventh-us-campus

Capacity Media is part of the Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC group

COMPANY HISTORY

NTT DATA History

Chronological list of past activities, and awards received by our products and services

NTT DATA

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As of 2019, we aim for global and quality growth with unchanging beliefs and the courage to change, achieving this Global 3rd stage goal around 2025. Our unchanging belief: we want to create a future society together with our customers. For this, we will contribute to the advancement of SDGs by creating value based on long-term relationships with our customers, continuously improving our corporate value.

Our courage to change: we will accelerate digital transformation even further and enhance global synergies to maximize the value we provide to our customers.

Along with these, we wish to enhance our clients’ trust in us and, that is why we brought in the new group vision of being a “Trusted Global Innovator.”

2021

Management: Established a new brand "SocietyOS ™" to help realize Smart Cities.; "SocietyOS" develops services from the consumer's point of view and is designed to aid city development in the digital and COVID-19 age.

2020

Services: Launched a community cloud service designed for Government clients. "Open Canvas for Government" will provide a high security and operational quality platform that can reduce costs, scale to requirements, and have high agility to respond to client's needs.

Services: Launch of a new agile development-related training for total agile transformation for companies. This makes it possible for training tailored to the customer's digital transformation (DX) initiative stage.

Services: Free provision of diagnostic imaging AI data to combat against COVID-19. Through utilizing this data, medical institutions will be able to better detect COVID-19 and improve patient triage

Financial Results for the First Quarter of the Fiscal Year ending March 31, 2022

(From April 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021)

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Hizzoner John Giles Has A New MAG One-Year Gig: The Agency's Chair

This big responsibility is giving Mesa's Mayor some added work in his last term

Press Release

MAG Elects New Officers Working to Improve Transportation and Quality of Life

azmag.gov

PHOENIX (June 23, 2021)—A new Regional Transportation Plan that will guide transportation investments for decades to come is just one of the important activities that will be a focus for newly elected officers for the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG).

At today’s Annual Meeting of the MAG Regional Council, Mesa Mayor John Giles was elected to be the agency’s new chair. Avondale Mayor Kenneth Weise was elected to serve as vice chair. Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego will serve as treasurer. Those selected to serve as at-large members include Carefree Mayor Les Peterson, Chandler Mayor Kevin Hartke, and El Mirage Mayor Alexis Hermosillo. Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers will move into the position of past chair. The MAG Regional Council is a 32-member board that serves as the governing and policy-making body for MAG.

Mayor Giles outlined three key priorities for the coming year, including

> finalizing the Regional Transportation Plan, MOMENTUM;

> implementing regional strategies to end homelessness; and

> ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion in MAG’s work.

“I am proud of MAG for continuing to be the consummate forum of collaboration, bringing leaders from around the region to a single table,” Mayor Giles said as he accepted the gavel at the meeting. “As elected officials, there is peace of mind knowing we are not alone when it comes to facing challenges. We rely on each other – for counsel, for collective problem solving, and for creating a competitive, thriving region.”

Other newly elected officers include Tempe City Manager Andrew Ching, who will serve as chair for the MAG Management Committee. Phoenix City Manager Ed Zuercher will serve as the vice chair. The Management Committee is responsible for receiving input from MAG technical committees, analyzing the technical and policy implications, and providing recommendations to the MAG Regional Council.

Chandler Mayor Kevin Hartke will serve as chair of the Transportation Policy Committee, with Maricopa County Supervisor Jack Sellers as the vice chair. The TPC is responsible for overseeing the development of the 20-year Regional Transportation Plan and to guide transportation planning in the region.

The MAG Economic Development Committee also will welcome new officers, with El Mirage Mayor Alexis Hermosillo selected as chair and Gila River Indian Community Governor Stephen Roe Lewis as vice chair. The EDC develops initiatives to advance economic vitality in the region, especially transportation infrastructure.

All newly elected officers will serve a one-year term.

The Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) provides a forum for local governments working together on issues that affect the lives of everyone in the greater Phoenix region. We are a regional agency that conducts planning and makes policy decisions in a number of core areas. These include safe and smart travel, the economy and growth, environment and sustainability, and improving quality of life, all with a focus on efficient and effective operations. Our members include 27 cities and towns, 3 Native nations, Maricopa County, portions of Pinal County, and the Arizona Department of Transportation. Our planning area encompasses about 10,600 square miles.

Don't Just Shrug This Off and Say Nothing Changes . . .

Another day and it's time to follow-up on an earlier massive data breeech - details from Techdirt

T-Mobile Confirms Major Hack, Social Security Numbers And Drivers License Data Exposed

Privacy

from the here-we-go-again dept

Thu, Aug 19th 2021 6:30am — Karl Bode

"Earlier this week reports emerged that T-Mobile was investigating a massive hack of the company's internal systems, resulting in hackers gaining access to a massive trove of consumer information they were selling access to in underground forums. Initial estimates were that the personal details of 100 million customers had been accessed (aka all T-Mobile customers). After maintaining radio silence as it investigated the hack, T-Mobile has since released a statement detailing the scale of the intrusion. In short, it was smaller than initial claims, but still massive and terrible:

"Our preliminary analysis is that approximately 7.8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customer accounts’ information appears to be contained in the stolen files, as well as just over 40 million records of former or prospective customers who had previously applied for credit with T-Mobile. Importantly, no phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords, or financial information were compromised in any of these files of customers or prospective customers."

While T-Mobile notes that none of the PINS used by former or prospective postpaid (billed regularly month to month) customers were accessed, T-Mobile does note that 850,000 active T-Mobile prepaid customers had their names, phone numbers and account PINs exposed. Many others had their social security numbers, drivers license/ID information, and other data exposed:

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. . .While it's understood why T-Mobile would collect some of this data during a credit check, it's not clear exactly why it needed to keep this data after the credit check is complete. This, again, is the kind of stuff you could tackle with a basic US privacy law with meaningful penalties for companies that keep getting hacked.

For T-Mobile customers I think this is maybe the fifth or sixth time the company has been hacked since 2018. You have to think clear, basic, and consistently enforced federal guidelines and penalties would incentivize companies to not over-collect data and properly secure their systems.

Instead we stand around, shrug, complain that it's impossible or too hard to have competent governance on this subject, and nothing changes. And when consumers then get hacked (again), the best they get are platitudes like "free credit reporting," which prove utterly useless given they've received "free credit reporting" the last 75 times their data wasn't properly secured.

It's not clear how many of these kinds of repeated scandals we need to see before the federal government crafts some basic, competent guard rails, but it's abundantly clear that, thanks to a broad cross-industry coalition of lobbyists with near-unlimited budgets, it's not going to be anytime soon.

Filed Under: data breach, drivers licenses, hack, social security numbers
Companies: t-mobile

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