GoGrid Continues Expansion with New West Coast Data Center

📅 February 28, 2011 - Accelerated customer demand fuels new facility at Digital Realty Trust's 365 Main Street Facility in Downtown San Francisco.

GoGrid, a cloud infrastructure hosting provider, today announced its third data center expansion in six months with the extension of its platform into Digital Realty Trust's 365 Main Street property. The company mentions that it is occupying a significant amount of data center space in 365 Main Street, which is adjacent to its headquarters. The new facility allows it to meet increasing demand for its infrastructure cloud solutions and also serves as a vehicle to offer new cloud computing services and management tools. It adds that the agreement between the company and Digital Realty Trust includes the building of a new, direct and private fiber conduit linking its infrastructure in the two adjacent buildings.

According to the company, it will utilize 365 Main Street's infrastructure that includes raised floor space, security, cooling, network, power, fire suppression and other state-of-the-art features. The new data center space in 365 Main Street provides it an increased data center footprint and close proximity to the company's corporate headquarters and primary San Francisco data center which in turn allows corporate customers to receive new and enhanced infrastructure services within its technology network.

It articulates that the company currently operates a data center in San Francisco, CA. In February 2011, it announced the opening of a European data center and in June 2010, the company announced expansion into an Equinix, Inc. data center located in Ashburn, VA.

"With triple-digit growth from GoGrid cloud services the additional data center capacity provided by Digital Realty Trust will allow GoGrid to meet our customers' needs head on - ensuring that we remain ahead of our skyrocketing growth curve," said Mark Worsey, Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President of Technology at GoGrid. "The 365 Main Street data center provides us with an ideal location to expand our presence as part of our global rollout."

"We're pleased to be working with GoGrid on this important expansion of its data center infrastructure," said Joe Goldsmith, Vice President of Sales at Digital Realty Trust. "While the supply of quality data center space is very limited in downtown San Francisco, 365 Main Street offers highly flexible space to support data center expansions for companies like GoGrid that are growing rapidly. We look forward to being a long-term data center partner of GoGrid."