posted on March 11, 2011 01:05
Internap Network Services Corp. (Nasdaq: INAP), a leading provider of IT infrastructure services, announced it plans to open a data center in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.
The company-controlled facility will serve a growing demand for colocation in the area, primarily in the technology, defense, financial services, telecommunications and transportation industries. Colocation allows small companies to purchase space on a route-optimized network.
In a recent report on multitenant data supply centers, the demand for colocation space is projected to outpace supply through 2013.
The new data center will include about 55,000 square feet of net sell-able raised floor space, as well as other customer amenities including conference rooms, expanded technical space and private office space.
“The Dallas-Fort Worth metro area boasts the largest concentration of corporate headquarters in the U.S. with 10,000 companies calling the city home, including numerous organizations ranked on the Fortune 500,” said Mike Higgins senior vice president of data centers services at Georgia-based Internap, in a written statement.
“With the addition of DFW to our portfolio of company-controlled data centers, we are able to provide these bedrock corporations with sorely-needed data center space that can be tailored to their specific IT infrastructure needs,” he said.
The company plans to open phase I of the new facility in 2012. This will be the firm’s sixth company-controlled data center announced in less than a year.
A source close to the deal said the facility would be located in Plano.
3/3/11, Candace Carlisle, Dallas Business Journal