An artist rendering shows an overhead image of Latisys' existing data center
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and colocation provider Latisys (www.latisys.com) announced on Wednesday plans to expand its Oak Brook, Illinois campus. The 10,000 square foot addition is expected to be complete by June 2011.
The Chicago area has been a hot spot for data center expansion in recent months. This week colocation firm Equinix announced it will invest approximately $30 million to expand its Chicago-3 IBX, adding 19,000 square feet of colocation space by the fourth quarter of 2011. In March, DuPont Fabros Technology announced it is preparing to raise capital for an expansion to its CH1 data center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
Latisys is expanding its 48,000 square foot facility that it acquired in August 2010. The site is adjacent to Latisys’ original 99,000 square foot Oak Brook data center. The expansion will add 2.5MW of power.
“With a relative absence of natural disasters, and geographic positioning as a major transportation and high speed connectivity hub, Chicago has become an optimal market for enterprises to deploy their IT infrastructure,” said Len Salva, regional sales director, Latisys said in a statement. “With this newly commissioned space, Latisys is positioned to meet a market need for high density power, space and cooling capacity, while our data center-as-a-service offering provides enterprises with the flexibility, reliability and scalability they need to succeed.”
Latisys also announced a new data center-as-a-service offering that “enables Latisys to deliver flexible deployments that can scale up to 250 watts per square foot, and tie customer infrastructure seamlessly into the company’s disaster recovery solutions,” according to the press release.
The new offering is designed for large enterprises and service providers
in the Midwest that require significant HD data center space, power and cooling capacity.
The WHIR was in Chicago last week for a networking event, and editor-in-chief Liam Eagle shared his thoughts on the city as it relates to web hosting and a recap of the event in a blog post.
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