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Petroleum Geo-Services Selects CyrusOne as North American Data Center Provider

February 16, 2010

Petroleum Geo-Services Selects CyrusOne as North American Data Center Provider

HOUSTON, Texas (February 16, 2010) -- CyrusOne is pleased to announce that Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), one of the world’s leading oil exploration service companies, will occupy a 10,000 square foot data hall in CyrusOne’s newest co-located data center located in West Houston. PGS 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.

“CyrusOne proved an ideal partner in that they met our performance requirements, matched our commitment to reducing environmental impact and were cost efficient,” said Bill Rickert, Manager of Global Compute Resources. “Their long-term mutual commitment in these areas gave us the confidence to choose CyrusOne as our North American data center provider.”

Cost Efficiency

PGS conducted a thorough cost analysis that contrasted the cumulative lifecycle expense associated with building and maintaining a data center, leasing, or co-locating with a provider. PGS had three options: to retrofit in their existing data center; to build a new site; to relocate their data center and co-locate with CyrusOne. After modeling the possibilities and weighing their options, PGS determined it was more cost efficient to leverage CyrusOne’s co-location services.

“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. Top tier data centers such as our new West Houston location are future-proof, providing optimal power consumption in conjunction with the most advanced, scalable high-density architectures available.”

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. Another component that CyrusOne uses is advanced, or progressive, power architectures to ensure that power capabilities consistently meet or exceed customers’ most advanced requirements, without compromising or elevating the environmental impact.

“Top tier data centers are monitored and optimized on a continual basis; thus, they remain ahead of the curve and able to meet customers’ most demanding requirements as they evolve,” Ferdman noted.

Minimizing Environmental Impact

PGS strives to achieve continual improvement in environmental performance, which includes reducing energy use in data centers by implementing new technologies for power usage and management. A data center’s efficiency can be measured using an industry standard of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratio – an energy calculation recommended by the Green Grid organization. PGS projects that by relocating its data center infrastructure to CyrusOne’s facility, PGS will reduce its Houston data center PUE by twenty-seven percent.

Facility Performance

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 strategically 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. This infrastructure allows customers to install the latest server technology while ensuring the availability of the applications to users worldwide.

PGS has a dedicated, private data hall within CyrusOne’s West Houston campus, with adjacent office space reserved strictly for PGS employees only. Authorized key card access and biometric scan are required to access their data hall for added security. CyrusOne standard 24 x 7 x 365 security guards are on-site monitoring numerous cameras around the facility. The facility is surrounded by a perimeter barrier fence with access only by key card.

About PGS

Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) offers a broad range of products including; seismic and electromagnetic services, data acquisition, data processing, reservoir analysis/interpretation and multi-client library data. We help oil companies to find oil and gas reserves worldwide, offshore and onshore. PGS was founded in Norway in 1991, with 2 seismic ships and some highly innovative ideas on how to reshape the industry. PGS has offices in over 30 countries with regional centers in London, Houston and Singapore. Our headquarters is in Oslo, Norway and PGS is listed on the Oslo stock exchange (OSE:PGS). To learn more, visit www.pgs.com.

About CyrusOne

CyrusOne is a leader in high-availability, high-density data center services, offering co-location and implementation services for companies in a wide range of industries, such as Schlumberger, Marathon Repsol, YPF and Christus Health. With 480,000 square feet of data center space in Texas, CyrusOne is the leading provider in the state. CyrusOne is sponsored by ABRY Partners, a Boston-based media, communications, business and information services focused private equity investment firm that has made over $21 billion of investments in over 450 properties. For more information, visit www.cyrusone.com.

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