(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting and colocation provider SunGard Availability Services (www.availability.sungard.com) announced on Tuesday is opening a 69,000-square-feet data center in the Sacramento, California area.
The new facility will provide managed IT services ranging from virtualized data centers for Silicon Valley startups to fully managed disaster recovery and business continuity services for Fortune 500 companies.
Sungard decided to build the data center in order to meet the growing demand from independent software vendors that provide software as a service, and for IT services ranging from colocation services to private cloud computing.
The facility is located in Rancho Cordova, one of the most stable geographic locations in California that is just outside fault zones and flood plains. The new data center is set to open in May 2010.
“This new facility demonstrates SunGard’s sustained investment in expanding its infrastructure in California, to deliver services scalability and process expertise to customers,” says Lance Hanchey, vice president operations at SunGard Availability Services. “It also reflects our commitment to helping Sacramento and Bay Area companies meet information availability requirements by keeping their people, systems and data connected.”
The facility will house SunGard’s enterprise-class managed IT services including hosting services, applications services, messaging services, network services, managed security services, storage services and replication services.
In phase one, the data center will have 28,000 square feet of available conditioned raised floors that will be divided into caged areas and private suites.
The facility has two electrical feeds totaling close to 6MW of power and is carrier neutral with nine fiber providers having access to the fiber vaults entering the data center.
SunGard has 35 managed services facilities with a combined total of over five million square feet of data centers in North America and Europe, and a dedicated global network backbone.
SunGard has a highly capable delivery team organized around a service-centric operating model, based on ITIL v3 and ITSM structure. SunGard has demonstrated operational excellence through SAS 70 Type II and ISO9001 certification, and PCI DSS-compliant facilities and processes.
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