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By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com
September 8, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting and data center operator Liquid Web (liquidweb.com) announced on Monday it has completed a brand new data center video tour that is featured on the front page of its website.
The new data center video uses recent high definition video technology and state of the art production methods to provide a realistic simulation of a physical data center walk through.
The website also features other data center videos addressing its Tier 1 premium bandwidth, onsite security, and power system.
In July, Liquid Web opened the doors to its Data Center 3, a new 90,000 square foot facility that houses 25,000 new customer servers and 600 new engineers.
The data center video tour runs just under 8 minutes and covers all aspects of Liquid Web's product offerings including Heroic Support, Sonar Monitoring, security, network infrastructure, power systems, environmental processing systems and N+1 redundancy.
"Unlike many web hosting companies that rely on third party video production houses to produce their data center tours, the Liquid Web data center tour was completely produced by the in-house marketing experts at Liquid Web," says Jason Grasshoff, creative lead for Liquid Web. "Every word, scene, camera angle, jib arm shot and production effect was crafted by Liquid Web to provide a realistic experience for our website visitors."
Last month, FORTRUST launched its new website for its own Denver data center, which offered visually detailed look at the Denver data center's interior and the extensive range of colocation and managed services it offers.
Liquid Web says it provides web hosting services to over 20,000 customers in over 120 countries. The company has three wholly owned data center facilities located in Lansing, Michigan.
In July, Liquid Web launched a data protection services based on R1Soft's continuous data protection technology.
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