CHICAGO, IL — (Marketwired) — 10/29/14 — Responding to increasing enterprise demand for it–s mission critical data center solutions, a leading international provider of hybrid cloud hosting and data center solutions, today announced it has commissioned 24,400 square feet of new high-density raised floor at its Oak Brook, Illinois data center campus 18 miles west of downtown Chicago.
The new build-out creates DC-06 and features an additional 3.6 megawatts of critical power-adding capacity at Latisys– Tier 3 high density Chicago datacenter campus which has a total of 148,000 gross square feet. DC-06 is tied directly to 10 fiber carriers in the building and is monitored 24x7x365 by on-site network operations center teams and building management systems.
Latisys– Oak Brook data center campus serves as the Midwest hub of Latisys– of high-density data centers — which includes as an ideal site, along with and as gateways to Asia Pacific, Europe and South America. In addition, Latisys platform in London to serve emerging enterprise customer needs — including those of a large multinational company that has embarked on a global platform consolidation initiative. Approximately 1,100 enterprises and government organizations rely on Latisys as their trusted provider of critical IT infrastructure solutions underpinning their business.
“Chicago–s western suburbs continue to gain in popularity as the primary alternative for Chicago enterprises looking for new capacity and the ability to extend their infrastructure nationally and internationally,” said Doug Butler, Latisys– CFO and President of Colocation Services at. “Our expanded Chicago data center and unified platform is purpose built to deliver secure, scalable — and highly flexible — IT infrastructure solutions for organizations seeking both high performance and business value.”
Latisys– Oak Brook data center campus delivers key features to meet a variety of critical business drivers for the enterprise:
among Chicago-based organizations whose existing capacity has been reached or whose limited power densities make it difficult to grow efficiently
, offering organizations in the Central Business District and surrounding areas latency as low as sub 1ms
to meet the dynamic needs of today–s nimble businesses who seek a single partner that can right-size solutions both for today and for tomorrow
delivers a hybrid suite of cloud computing and infrastructure services that includes data center colocation, managed hosting & private cloud, managed storage, server virtualization, backup, replication and security services
Latisys leads the IaaS industry in customer satisfaction with a Net Promoter score of 46, and recently received its first ever inclusion in the .
Latisys is a leading provider of hybrid cloud hosting and data center solutions to medium-sized businesses, enterprise customers and government agencies. With a heritage serving business customers since 1994, and multiple high-density data centers across the United States — and now in the United Kingdom — Latisys offers a scalable outsourced IT infrastructure platform that provides customers with what they need, when they need it. As a client-centric company — with state of the art data centers in Ashburn, Virginia, Chicago, Denver, Irvine, California and London — Latisys is quickly becoming the IaaS platform of choice for companies that seek a truly flexible IT infrastructure partner. Call 1-866-956-9594, visit or follow us on Twitter at for additional information. All Systems Grow.
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