(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — After just one year of operation, managed services provider Horizon Data Center Solutions (www.horizondcs.com) has reached capacity at its 25,000 square foot Dallas data center well ahead of its initial projections, as new customers file into its second Dallas location.
According to Horizon’s Wednesday announcement, its faster than anticipated growth was driven by growing demand for outsourced IT services including colocation, as well as the acquisition of managed services provider Mareechi (www.mareechi.com), government sector demand, and the company’s flexible approach to serving clients. Only a small amount of space for caged colocation remains available at the Dallas One data center.
“Unlike many businesses, the state of the economy has actually fueled a portion of our growth,” Horizon chief executive officer Lance A. Smith said in a statement. “Today, building expensive data centers and complex computing infrastructures that require large capital expenditures is not desirable for most companies. Since both colocation and outsourced managed services save businesses money, we are benefiting from the desire to be economically efficient while securing world-class IT services.”
Horizon Rapid expects continued growth as it enters its second year of operation, anticipating annual revenues to top $20 million by the end of 2009, as customers move into Dallas Two. Already several thousand square feet of colocation space is under contract for the company’s second free-standing facility. New customers include a national home builder, an 800-physician medical practice management company, a multi-state higher education institution and a Department of Defense infrastructure security installation.
According to Smith, a major factor that has spurred the company’s growth is its focus on providing flexible services and flexible terms that meet client needs from small businesses to large enterprise applications. “When we established this business one of our goals was to do things differently than they’d been done before,” Smith said. “[B]usinesses of all sizes require data security and business continuity strategies that protect them from outages or data loss that can shut everything down. Our FlexSpace Program was something businesses had never seen from a data center company with such high quality data center facilities and dedicated, managed services and it’s attracted a lot of attention.”
Horizon has also announced it is seeking new data center real estate in markets including Houston, Northern California, and Northern Virginia.
