******2/14/2010 08:40******

The transformer upgrade has been postponed and no work will be performed today.

After a delay due to load issues for the other building service testing began at 07:30. At 07:50 one of the rented generators experienced a catastrophic failure. No persons were injured and there is no damage or impact to digital.forest critical infrastructure or back-up power equipment. All of our critical infrastructure is fully operational and in place to serve our facility.

This transformer upgrade will be rescheduled for another date in the next month and we will provide an updated schedule when that has happened.

******2/14/2010 04:30 Update******

Due to a non-impacting issue with one of the rental generators we were unable to allow Seattle City Light to proceed with the transformer upgrade on Saturday. One of the generators rented to provide redundant power to another tenant in the building did not function properly and required a replacement brought in from Portland.

The upgrade will take place on Sunday starting at 05:30 with a similar schedule to the original. As previously planned, digital.forest has a full compliment of staff on hand and has coordinated closely with all of our vendors for emergency on-call service for all of our critical infrastructure should the need arise.

The new schedule follows here:

05:00 to 05:30 digital.forest staff will pre-flight and warm up our generator

05:30 digital.forest staff will transfer critical load from utility power to generator power

06:00 Seattle City Light will de-energize the main transformers feeding our building

06:00 to 12:00 Seattle City Light will replace on of the main transformers feeding our building

13:00 Seattle City Light will re-energize the main transformers

13:00 to 13:30 Seattle City Light and Veca Electric will validate the voltage, frequency, and rotation of the power from the new transformer

13:45 digital.forest staff will transfer critical load from generator to utility

13:45 to 14:00 digital.forest staff will monitor power conditions from the new transformer and cool down our generator

14:00 to 16:00 digital.forest staff and Veca Electric will remove the wire connections from the second generator and clean up the operations area

******NON-SERVICE IMPACTING MAINTENANCE******

On Saturday, February 13th Seattle City Light will be performing an upgrade on the transformer that provides power to the digital.forest data center. During this maintenance our facility will operate on generator power and will have a second generator in place for redundancy. This maintenance will provide additional power to the building and our facility. Our facilities management team has planned the work with representatives from Seattle City Light, Veca Electric, Sabey Corporation, and our neighbor tenants. We have planned contingencies for staff shortages, foul weather, time over runs, and broken or damaged parts. As always, we are taking all necessary steps to ensure continuous service to our customers and life-safety for everyone working on this project. The process for this work is very similar to the process used during the September 4th, 2009 work which you can read about here and here.

****** The schedule for work is as follows:

04:00 to 04:45 digital.forest staff will pre-flight and warm up our generator

04:45 digital.forest staff will transfer critical load from utility power to generator power

05:00 Seattle City Light will de-energize the main transformers feeding our building

05:00 to 14:00 Seattle City Light will replace on of the main transformers feeding our building

16:00 Seattle City Light will re-energize the main transformers

16:00 to 16:30 Seattle City Light and Veca Electric will validate the voltage, frequency, and rotation of the power from the new transformer

16:30 digital.forest staff will transfer critical load from generator to utility

16:30 to 16:45 digital.forest staff will monitor power conditions from the new transformer and cool down our generator

16:45 to 18:30 digital.forest staff and Veca Electric will remove the wire connections from the second generator and clean up the operations area

************ digital.forest remains committed to providing our customers with the highest level of service, the greatest degree of protection, and the most transparent communications. If you have any questions or concerns about the above maintenance, please contact your account manager. Our account management staff is available Monday through Friday from 08:00 hrs PST until 17:00 hrs PST at 877-720-0483 Option 2.