A photo of Internap's newest data center in Santa Clara, California
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Colocation services provider Internap Network Services (www.internap.com) announced on Thursday that it plans to build a new 55,000 square foot data center in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
In November, the company opened a new data center in Santa Clara, California and revealed its plans to expand its Boston area data center.
According to Internap, the new facility is part of its strategy to “build a geographically diversified platform of premium data centers”. Internap says the Dallas/Fort Worth area is a strong market for colocation since it has diverse businesses including technology, defense, finance, life sciences and more.
The new data center will include conference rooms and private office space and will be SAS 70 Type II compliant. Internap says it will deploy modular power design to minimize energy consumption. This model enables customers to select availability and increase power densities without taking on additional space.
“The Dallas/Fort Worth metro area boasts the largest concentration of corporate headquarters in the U.S. with 10,000 companies calling the city home, including numerous organizations ranked on the Fortune 500,” Mike Higgins, senior vice president of data center services at Internap said in a statement. “With the addition of DFW to our portfolio of company-controlled data centers, we are able to provide these bedrock corporations with sorely-needed data center space that can be tailored to their specific IT infrastructure needs – from colocation, managed hosting and cloud storage services to premium connectivity and Content Delivery Network services – and can quickly scale to support their business growth requirements.”
Internap’s customers can access Internap’s Performance IP service to connect to all major Internet backbones globally.
The company plans to have phase 1 completed in the first quarter of 2012.
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