Monday January 31, 8:06 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
GlobalCenter Significantly Expands Data Center Footprint
Leading Commerce Service Provider Adds Anaheim and Sunnyvale Data Centers to Meet Demand of Exploding Market
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2000--GlobalCenter Inc., a Global Crossing Company and a leading Commerce Service Provider, today announced the addition of two data centers in Sunnyvale and Anaheim, California. The Sunnyvale data center is open and installing customers today and Anaheim is scheduled to open later this quarter. These new facilities, combined, are in excess of 150,000 square feet. The centers expand on GlobalCenter's already extensive array of data center locations worldwide, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. The geographically distributed data centers are one of the four key components in the GlobalCenter Commerce Service Solution, which provides the Internet infrastructure to enable the scalability of Internet businesses.
GlobalCenter's geographically distributed data centers are designed to ensure high availability and performance for customers by condensing the path of content delivery. The data centers are physically located in major metropolitan business centers and are seamlessly integrated with the Global Crossing IP network infrastructure, making data centers ``On Net' all the time. ``On Net' data centers are built to specifications that deliver the highest standards in security and reliability because ``uptime' is imperative to get customer content to end-users. These specifications include 24x7x365 monitoring, temperature control, fire suppression, UPS/generators, backup power, ramming ballards, hand scanners, surveillance cameras and secured racks and cages.
``GlobalCenter has taken these quick and aggressive actions to better serve Internet businesses in this fast paced market,' said Leo J. Hindery, Jr., Chairman and CEO of GlobalCenter. ``The continuous addition of secure, high-technology data centers keeps GlobalCenter among the front-runners in the industry and provides the opportunity to serve a greater customer base worldwide.'
The strategy for GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution is comprised of four components that are critical to ensure business availability and scalability: connectivity, data centers, ``on-demand' utility applications and professional services. GlobalCenter seamlessly integrates its leading, open systems infrastructure, applications and intelligence into services to provide a single-source solution that enables online businesses to grow and succeed. By utilizing the GlobalCenter solution, companies get enterprise-class utility applications at a significantly reduced total cost-of-ownership with less capital outlay and fewer internal IT staff requirements. GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution provides businesses the Internet infrastructure to ensure the high availability, flexibility and scalability necessary to compete in the digital economy. |
