(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider SunGard Availability Services (www.sungard.com) announced on Thursday it is expanding its data centers in Midtown Atlanta and Smyrna, Georgia to meet its increasing customer demand.
The expansion news follows SunGard’s recent announcement that it will soon open a 69,000-square-feet data center in the Sacramento, California area.
The SunGard Midtown Atlanta facility is undergoing a large-scale power upgrade designed to support an additional 350 cabinets of IT space for customers.
The upgrade includes adding 2.5MW in utility power, which doubles the facility’s capacity, as well as an additional 2MW generator, 1MW in UPS power and 300 tons of cooling capacity.
For the Smyrna facility, SunGard Plans to add 25,000 square feet of raised floor for colocation and managed services with 16,000 square feet delivered in phase one.
The upgrade also includes adding 6MW of utility power, 2 N utility power redundancy, UPS power with N+1 redundancy and 700 tons of cooling capacity.
In addition to the new managed services and colocation space, the 134,800 square foot Smyrna site will support SunGard recovery services, including SunGard AdvancedRecovery solutions, which deliver high availability using replication and disk-based backup technologies.
The facility includes more than 300 workforce continuity seats that are fully equipped with the technology, office resources, infrastructure and amenities that organizations need to provide staffers with an alternative workspace after an outage.
“The upgrade of our Atlanta facilities demonstrates our success in helping organizations ensure their critical infrastructure is always on, keeping their business in business,” says David Colesante, vice president and general manager of managed services at SunGard Availability Services. “We provide small customers with cost-effective solutions that can grow seamlessly as their business grows. We help medium and enterprise customers manage their applications more efficiently, with infrastructure management and integrated multi-data center solutions that include fail-over options for increased resiliency.”
The expansion specifically addresses the needs of Atlanta area technology companies. The Atlanta area currently has a number of companies that need data center space in more than one center.
SunGard says it provides a cost-effective, gigabit network connection for customers to link up operations across its three Atlanta area sites.
SunGard’s data centers offer hosting services, application services, email and collaboration services, network services, managed security services, storage services and replication services.
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