March 10, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider SoftLayer (softlayer.com) announced on Monday it has opened its second data center facility in Dallas, Texas. The company has also upgraded its core networking infrastructure in Dallas, investing more than $5 million in renovations.
The new facility more than doubles the company's server capacity in Dallas with 220 new racks. The facility features its own multiple power feeds supported by independent UPS systems and generators for failover, while using the same network operations as the existing SoftLayer facility.
"The new data center resides within the same building as our current facility, but it is completely redundant from all other risk variables, including power, bandwidth and cooling," says Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer. "This allows us to deliver an additional level of failover and disaster recovery for customers seeking redundant Dallas facilities."
The upgrade to the first Dallas facility involved a major core network backbone, enabling the company to more effectively serve customers using the Dallas facilities. The upgrade included the addition of three new Cisco 7600-S routers using the latest RSP-720 Supervisor Engines, an upgrade of all existing 6500-E switches using the latest Sup720-3CXL Supervisor Engines, DDOS and IDS protection with multiple Cisco Guard, and Tipping Point installations with continued deployment of 40GB to the rack using Cisco 3560-E rack switches.
Improving performance for all SoftLayer customers, the new Cisco equipment provides increased CPU speed, more memory and far greater routing capacity than its previous equipment.
The company announced last week it launched its Application Protocol Interface 3.0, an even more enhanced version of the industry's first open source API.
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