i/o Data Centers, the premier provider of data center solutions, held a grand opening ceremony for its 538,000 square-foot Phoenix ONE Data Center facility today. The Phoenix data center (http://www.iodatacenters.com/data-centers/arizona/phoenix-data-center.aspx), located in a recently-refurbished building, is the company'ss second Arizona-based data center and is the largest commercially-available data center in the United States.
We are delighted to have our Phoenix ONE facility up and running and appreciate the warm welcome we have received from the city, our partners and our customers, said i/o Data Centers
President and Founder Anthony Wanger. Phoenix is an ideal location for a data center of this magnitude because of its abundant power supply, outstanding network access and lack of natural
disasters.
The City of Phoenix is pleased i/o Data Centers has chosen to locate its flagship data center facility here, said Mayor Gordon. Not only will it attract new businesses to Phoenix, but it
will also create high-wage, highly-skilled job opportunities for local residents. Phoenix is becoming a technology hub because of companies like i/o Data Centers.
Not all data centers are created equal is the corporate motto for i/o Data Centers and the Phoenix ONE facility proves just that. The 31-acre site contains the square footage of nine
football fields. Size aside, Phoenix ONE was designed and built to be highly reliable and efficient. The facility incorporates a number of diverse and green data center systems to provide
always on operations for its customers and reduce the facility'ss overall carbon footprint.
There were more than 200 workers involved in the build out of the Phoenix data center (http://www.iodatacenters.com/data-centers/arizona/phoenix-data-center.aspx)- everyone from electricians to
steelworkers. We feel good about being able to contribute to the health of the Phoenix economy and help solidify Arizona as a high-tech state, said Wanger.
i/o Data Centers has grown tremendously over the past year. In addition to bringing the Phoenix ONE facility online the company has added a number of operations, sales and marketing
positions to further the company'ss expansion plans. The team we have brought on board this year will help us take the company to the next-level, said George Slessman, i/o Data Centers's
CEO. We are pleased with the progress we have made over the past few years and look forward to continuing our success.
The Phoenix data center (http://www.iodatacenters.com/data-centers/arizona/phoenix-data-center.aspx), although recently completed,
is already home to a number of large corporate customers. Because of the success we had with our Scottsdale ONE facility, we were able to pre-sell some space at this new facility, said
Wanger. There is a lot of interest in Phoenix ONE and we are excited with the prospects we have had so far.
About i/o Data Centers
i/o Data Centers is the premier provider of enterprise colocation and data center solutions. Based in Arizona, i/o Data Centers designs, builds and operates highly reliable and efficient
data centers for some of the world'ss largest corporations and Web properties. i/o Data Centers offers a variety of innovative and flexible colocation solutions including colocation
cabinets, colocation cages, data center suites and containerized data center solutions.
For more information on i/o Data Centers visit: www.iodatacenters.com