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A combination of brass, glass, steel and marble, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's newest data center was gleaming on July 30th, its official opening day.
Underneath the surface, however, there's an even brighter structure: a modern and dynamic data center facility, which provides the day-to-day system and application development for all of MetLife's lines of business--work formerly handled at the corporate headquarters in Manhattan--and also will act as a disaster recovery and backup facility for MetLife's four other data centers located throughout the country.
Situated in the Rensselaer Technology Park, just outside of Albany, NY, the new Rensselaer Information Systems Center (RISC) is under the guardianship of Pamela A. Keeler. Keeler, vice president and general manager of RISC, oversees the 212,000-square-foot facility, which has six computer bays: four for processors and DASD (one will remain empty to handle future disaster recovery needs), one for communications, and a sixth bay that holds...