(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and data center operator Expedient Communications (www.expedient.com) announced on Tuesday it has opened a new data center in Columbus, Ohio.
The announcement comes a day after another colocation firm, Involta, announced it will build and operate a 46,000 square foot enterprise data center in Akron, Ohio.
Located at 5000 Arlington Center in Upper Arlington, the data center will be open for customers by January 1, 2011.
It will be the first Expedient data center in the Columbus market and the eighth data center the company operates across six cities under three different wholly owned brand names.
Expedient’s data centers typically serve a combination of local and national companies, who choose to host their critical business computer systems and applications in secure, utility-redundant facilities.
“We believe that Columbus is the next logical place for us to expand, as we already have successful, growing and fully capable operations in the surrounding markets of Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Indianapolis,” says Bryan Smith regional vice president of Expedient. “Expedient will be the only service provider in the market with regionally diverse data centers, all offering a full complement of managed services and connectivity as part of our product suite.”
The facility was used as an internal data center by the previous property owners, but Expedient will invest millions of dollars in market startup costs and improvements to the facility in order to meet the requirements of its customers.
When complete, the new facility will include about 8,000 square feet of raised floor computing space, which will support the company’s growth model for several years.
The company is immediately hiring several engineers and sales personnel with a projected staffing requirement of 12 to 15 by the first quarter of 2011.
The data center will feature dual commercial power feeds, redundant generators, N+2 cooling systems, multi-carrier telecommunications infrastructure, multiple tiered security system, fire suppression system and a 24-hour, fully staffed Operations Support Center.
The Columbus data center will be the third new facility the company has opened in as many years on top of several expansions to existing data centers.
The other seven data centers are located in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis (nFrame), Boston and Baltimore (DataPoint).
Expedient says it will be hosting an open house event at the new data center later this year so that local technology firms can preview the facility.
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