(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider SureWest (www.surewest.com) announced it has completed converting a new data center in Citrus Heights, California, which marks the company’s second equipment colocation and data center for business customers.
Located in a SureWest-owned building at McClellan Business Park, the data center spans 7,000 square feet of space with raised floors and controlled temperatures.
Before the conversion, the company had been operating a data center that spans nearly 3,000-square-foot, which was designed for businesses in the area looking to support their networks.
The company decided to expand its data center space once its first facility reached full capacity. Both the data centers are located outside the region’s flood zone.
“In addition to the protection our data centers provide from many day-to-day network threats,” says Paul Krueger, executive director of business sales for SureWest Communications, “it is the business continuity that we offer in the face of certain natural disasters common in this area, specifically flooding, that offers considerable security for many businesses. Our data centers have been singled out because our locations are outside of the local flood zones.”
SureWest’s telephone business is also operating out of the new building. The decrease in demand for the company’s land-line telephone service allowed the company to free up some space in the building.
SureWest’s new data center space went online in late October, the company says. About 40 percent of the new space is currently being used by business customers, leaving the remaining 60 percent available for new customers.
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