Latisys Announces Data Center Expansion, Rolls out the Latisys Cloud

📅 March 27, 2012 - Company will be adding 72,000 square feet of secure, high density space in Northern Virginia, Chicago, Denver, and Southern California.

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The company articulates that underpinning its rapid growth, the company is adding 72,000 square feet of secure, high density, carrier grade IT infrastructure space along with significant power upgrades. Its total data center footprint exceeds 500,000 square feet across seven data centers in four major markets. The company also announced availability of the Latisys Cloud, enabling enterprises to rapidly provision on-demand, pay-as-you-go IT infrastructure services through a self-service portal. The Latisys Cloud is restricted to members only and features all the security and performance businesses require for enterprise production environments. In addition, the Latisys Cloud offers industry-leading levels of customer support and multiple levels of QoS assigned to different resource pools so that customers can choose the level required for each application.

According to it, the expansion highlights include:

• Northern Virginia - (build out)
• 26,000 square feet of new space available Q3
• 4.4MW of critical power capacity available
• Chicago - (build out)
• 10,000 square feet of new space available Q4
• 1.2MW of critical power capacity available
• Denver - (new data center)
• 23,000 square feet of new space available Q4
• 3.25MW of critical power capacity available
• Southern California - (build out)
• 13,000 square feet of new space available Q4
• 1.8MW of critical power capacity available
  

The company mentions that its data centers feature a variety of fiber network infrastructure options to deliver high bandwidth, high-density connectivity to enterprise customers. Its national footprint covers all U.S. time zones - and gateways into the Asia Pacific and Europe - delivering unmatched scalability and multi-site redundancy to enterprise customers whether they want to off-premise, off-load, optimize or on-demand their IT infrastructure management. Its data centers are now operated under SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 audited controls. This replaces the SAS 70 guidebook and reaffirms the company's commitment to meet the highest standards for availability and security, while making sure all of the appropriate controls and safeguards are firmly in place.

"The data center has become the commerce zone of the 21st century," said Pete Stevenson, Chief Executive Officer, Latisys. "There is no longer a commodity relationship between suppliers and buyers of IT. Latisys' mission is to be a true builder and broker of IT solutions - from colo to cloud - that enable our enterprise customers to rapidly deploy IT solutions optimized to scale to meet current and future business requirements."

"Latisys provides highly secure, optimized levels of service supporting the high volume transactional model our customers depend upon," said David Norris, CEO of BlueCava. "Latisys' innovation, particularly in solution design and secure service delivery, addresses our needs not only in terms of performance, security, and reliability, but as a trusted partner as we scale our business globally."