(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hosting services provider Rackspace Hosting (www.rackspace.com) has announced plans to lease approximately 36,700 square feet of raised floor space at a Chicago facility with 5.633 megawatts of critical load from a subsidiary of real estate investment trust DuPont Fabros Technology (www.dft.com), which owns, develops, operates and manages wholesale data centers in the US.
According to its Tuesday announcement, Rackspace expects the new facility to go online in late 2009 to provide additional geographic redundancy and provide infrastructure to continue its rapid growth in its cloud business, and its continued growth in its managed hosting business.
“This new facility is the continuation of a successful relationship we began in February in DuPont Fabros’ Ashburn facility,” Rackspace Hosting real estate director Randy Smith said in a statement. “DuPont Fabros has the unique ability to design a data center infrastructure that can increase operational efficiencies and ultimately reliability for our customers. This allows us to focus on the core of our business and continue to deliver Fanatical Support.”
The new Chicago facility maximizes operating efficiency using an enhanced power capacity and flexible design with N+2 redundancy on all major systems including heat rejection systems, generators and UPS systems. Rackspace said this lease will enable it to serve customer demand more quickly and cost effectively than if Rackspace built its own facility. Additionally, because the lease provides for Rackspace to grow into the space over time, it is better able to match its expenses to revenue as driven by customer demand.
DuPont Fabros Technology chief executive officer Hossein Fateh said his company is pleased Rackspace has selected DuPont Fabros again to help it meet its expanding data center demand. “We believe that our highly efficient data center design and unmatched operational experience provide Rackspace with a solid foundation to provide its customers with an excellent service experience.”
Two weeks ago, Rackspace drew attention to its cloud when it made the specifications for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs open source under the Createive Commons 3.0 Attribution license. In what it calls “a major advancement of its open cloud strategy,” this liberalization lets the open source developer community copy, implement and modify the specifications.
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