(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and peering provider CoreSite (www.coresite.com), which was known as CRG West as little as a week ago, has completed 20,000 square feet of space at the company’s downtown Chicago data center, which now offers 2 Megawatts of power.
Following the launch of the company’s new name and corporate identity last week, CoreSite’s data center, located in Chicago’s financial district, will provide more colocation service area including both private, single-customer data center or cage-to-cabinet raised-floor space.
The new space will accommodate increased demand for data center space in downtown Chicago, where CoreSite already serves more than thirty customers, offering them access to some of Chicago’s major financial exchanges, as well as 2N emergency generator back-up power, and N+1 cooling and UPS configuration. The data center also features a return-air plenum, maximizing energy efficiency for its hot aisle containment.
“We take great pride in building out data center space the right way, with strong, redundant reliable infrastructure to provide a reliable, well-connected home for our customers’ mission-critical ICT systems,” CoreSite data centers vice president Billie Haggard said in a statement. “Our goal is to design, build and manage our data centers with our customers’ success in mind. We provide them with an environment that promotes and accommodates their future growth and do the job right.”
CoreSite’s Chicago site is SAS 70 Type II certified and includes security features such as mantraps, biometric readers and 24-hour on-site security. Branch-circuit monitoring technology was also installed, letting customer view their power consumption, providing more reliability and enabling CoreSite to charge customers accurately based on usage.
