Internap Announces Expansion of Data Center Footprint with New State-of-the-Art
Facility in Dallas/Fort Worth
New company-controlled facility meets demand for premium colocation and
route-optimized network connectivity services throughout the Silicon Prairie
ATLANTA, Feb. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Internap Network Services
Corporation (INAP), a leading provider of IT infrastructure services, today
announced that it will open a new data center in the Dallas/Fort Worth market.
The state-of-the-art, company-controlled facility will serve growing demand among
enterprise organizations in the DFW area for premium colocation backed by
Internap's route-optimized network connectivity services that deliver
best-in-class performance, availability and support. The new DFW facility
continues Internap's strategy to build a geographically diversified platform of
premium data centers to serve customers' high-performance IT infrastructure
needs, integrated with Internap's portfolio of colocation, connectivity, CDN,
managed hosting and cloud storage services.
Coined the "Silicon Prairie," Dallas/Fort Worth is a strong market for colocation
with its diverse business climate, which includes the technology, defense,
financial services, life sciences, retail, telecommunications and transportation
industries. Further, demand for colocation space in the DFW metroplexis expected
to outpace supply through 2013, according to a recent report on multi-tenant data
center supply from Tier1 Research.
Internap's new DFW data center will include approximately 55,000 square feet of
net sellable raised floor space, as well as a full range of customer amenities
including conference rooms, expanded technical space and private office space.
The state-of-the-art facility will feature green data center best practices to
minimize energy consumption as well as a modular power design, which enables
customers to select their availability and increase power densities well over 200
watts per foot without taking on additional space.
Like Internap's other company-controlled data centers, the DFW facility will
offer customers a highly-reliable and scalable IT infrastructure to deliver and
store content, data and applications. Customers can access Internap's Performance
IP(TM) service, which connects to all of the major Internet backbones globally
and leverages patented technology that analyzes network performance
characteristics - such as available bandwidth, delays and packet loss - to ensure
that Internet traffic is routed over the best path 100 percent of the time. Along
with SAS 70 Type II compliant practices utilized in Internap's other
company-controlled data centers, the DFW facility will also offer multiple layers
of security with 24/7 on-site technical support as well as proactive monitoring
by engineers in Internap's redundant Network Operations Centers.
"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 center services at Internap. "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 - from colocation, managed hosting and
cloudstorage services to premium connectivity and Content Delivery Network
services - and can quickly scale to support their business growth requirements."
The new Dallas/Fort Worth facility is expected to open Phase I in Q12012 and
marks Internap's sixth company-controlled data center announcement in less than a
year, with new and expanded facilities recently introduced in Seattle, Santa
Clara, Houston and Boston.
About Internap
Internap provides high-performance IT infrastructure services that enable our
customers to focus on their core business, improve service levels and lower the
cost of IT operations. Our colocation, connectivity and managed hosting solutions
are differentiated by unparalleled levels of performance, availability and
support. Since 1996, thousands of enterprises have entrusted Internap to deliver
their business-critical IT infrastructure needs. For more information, visit
internap.com, our blog at internap.com, or follow us
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking
statements include statements related to our expansion of data center capacity,
including expected benefits to customers and timing. Because such statements are
not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, there
are important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially
from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include our ability
to complete expansion of data centers within the expected timeframe; the actual
performance of our IT infrastructure services; our ability to respond
successfully to technological change; the availability of services from Internet
network service providers or network service providers providing network access
loops and local loops on favorable terms, or at all; failure of third party
suppliers to deliver their products and services on favorable terms, or at all;
failures in our network operations centers, data centers, network access points
or computer systems; our ability to provide or improve IT infrastructure services
to our customers; and our ability to protect our intellectual property, as well
as other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Given these risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue
reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. We
undertake no obligation to update, amend or clarify any forward-looking statement
for any reason.
Media Contact:Investor Contact:
Christi NicolacopoulosAndrew McBath
Davies Murphy Group, Inc. 404-302-9700
781-418-2464ir@internap.com
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