(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Digital Realty Trust (www.digitalrealtytrust.com) announced on Thursday it has completed a multi-faceted lease agreement with Web hosting provider SoftLayer (www.softlayer.com), where it will house its headquarters and data centers in a DRT property in the Dallas area.
SoftLayer Technologies signed a lease for office and data center space in a DRT building with the option to occupy the entire building to meet the company’s future expansion requirements.
The Web hosting provider also has naming rights for the standalone building, which will serve as the company’s global headquarters and operations center.
“We were running out of office space and data center capacity in our current facilities, so we needed to find a solution that could accommodate our growth,” says Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer. “The Digital Realty Trust property gives us tremendous flexibility to expand over time and enables us to house our offices and IT operation under the same roof. That has tremendous efficiencies for our operations and benefits for our customers. The Digital Realty Trust building allows us to expand our IT operations incrementally and cost effectively as our business grows.”
SoftLayer was seeking a standalone property that would provide “first-rate office space as well as technical space” for its IT service operations.
The company will convert part of the facility into a state of the art data center with ample power and fiber connectivity to support SoftLayer’s data center operations.
The new lease at the Digital Realty Trust property is the first step in SoftLayer’s aggressive growth plan for 2010, says Crosby.
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