Inside SoftLayer's DAL05 data center in the Dallas area.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider SoftLayer Technologies (www.softlayer.com) announced on Monday it has opened its second Dallas data center, located in the company’s recently completed headquarters.
The company first revealed in February that it signed a multi-faceted lease agreement with Digital Realty Trust where it would relocate its headquarters from Plano, Texas to a Digital Realty Trust property in Farmers Branch, Texas.
At the time, SoftLayer signed a lease for office and data center space in the Digital Realty Trust building with the option to occupy the entire building to meet the company’s future expansion needs.
Serving as the company’s global headquarters and operations center, DAL05 features an advanced dual-path network structure, including redundant network interface cards in every server.
Customers can select up to 2G of connectivity for any DAL05 server, select servers with up to 10G, and configure their networking resources to achieve all new levels of efficiency.
“Networking is the killer variable for today’s online services. Social networking, web application, cloud solutions—they all need higher bandwidth and more throughput control than ever,” says Sam Fleitman, chief operations officer for SoftLayer. “DAL05 pushes SoftLayer’s trademark networking advantage even farther. The dual-path structure not only provides greater bandwidth to individual computing units, it lets customers do things like designate separate paths for different traffic streams, optimizing a server’s networking for its specific application.”
DAL05 can hold up to 15,000 servers, offers 24-hour onsite support, and features multiple security protocols controlling entrance to the facility.
The facility is fully connected to SoftLayer’s data centers located at the Infomart in Dallas, Seattle, Washington, and the Washington DC area, as well as to the company’s network points of presence in seven additional US cities.
SoftLayer, which was acquired by investment fund GI Partners in August, recently posted a video tour of the data center and headquarters.
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