E Solutions Doubles Data Center Capacity with Acquisition Of Genuity's Tampa Assets.TAMPA, Fla. -- E Solutions Corporation, a hosting and application development firm with Tier One data center operations, has nearly doubled its data center capacity with the acquisition of Genuity, Inc.'s Tampa assets in the wake of that company's bankruptcy and subsequent acquisition by Level 3. Genuity had occupied a 9,060-square-foot, multimillion-dollar build-out on the seventh floor of Tampa's Park Tower. E Solutions acquired Genuity's assets from the building's owner, Sterling American Property Inc., and entered into a long-term lease for the seventh-floor space. The dollar value of the acquisition was not released. E Solutions has occupied Park Tower's 16th floor since 2002, when it took over space originally constructed by Aperian, Inc. for $10 million. That floor houses the Company's existing Tier One, 16,000-square-foot Phase I Data Center and administrative operations. "The expanded capacity and capabilities of the new Phase II Data Center will not only allow us, as a company, to reach out to larger organizations in need of co-location and enterprise-level hosting services, but will also support economic development in the Tampa Bay Tampa Bay, inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, 25 mi (40 km) long and 7 to 12 mi (11.3–19 km) wide, W Fla., separated from the Gulf by numerous small islands; it receives the Hillsborough River. St. region as a whole by ensuring the infrastructure is in place to support the major corporations that move into the area," said Richard Nicholas, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , E Solutions. "E Solutions is now one of only two data centers in the region with this level of capacity, and we achieved that without incurring debt or utilizing any kind of outside funding." Adds E Solutions President Michael Morizio: "Our new Phase II Data Center shares the same high-level security, connectivity, availability and expert technical staff support as our Phase I Data Center. In fact, we're built to physically withstand most natural or man-made disasters, including Kevlar-reinforced walls, triple redundant generators, and parallel UPS systems; we have no single points of failure." In addition to secured access from the ground floor to the elevators, access inside the Phase I and Phase II Data Centers is strictly monitored and controlled with pass cards. E Solutions' Data Centers also feature surveillance and round-the-clock monitoring, as well as state-of-the-art physical security including: --Ionic "sniffers" to detect overheating Overheating An economy that is growing very quickly, with the risk of high inflation. --An Inergen gas fire suppression system Fire suppression systems are used in conjunction with smoke detectors and fire alarm systems to improve and increase public safety Types
--A dual pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system --Kevlar-reinforced walls --Concrete reinforced bunker surrounding the exterior of the seventh floor (Phase II Data Center) --Three backup generators and fuel In addition, the Data Centers are cooled with 11 20-ton Liebert Air Conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. units and feature overhead high-tech cable trays, raised flooring and elevated racks. Also unique is E Solutions' location; the Company is situated on Tampa's two high-priority power grids and is housed in the region's "Telco Hotel," giving the Company direct fiber connectivity to its carriers burstable to OC192. The Data Centers are also on top of the regional telecommunications infrastructure, so bandwidth can quickly be added to the Company's private conduits as necessary. E Solutions' Phase I Data Center, which is near capacity, is home to many of the region's professional sports franchises, including the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Along with their traditional rivals, the Orlando Predators, they share the Arena record for the longest tenure by a franchise in a single market area. , as well as 13 Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. teams. Other companies that contract with E Solutions for services ranging from custom application design and development, co-location and fully managed enterprise-level hosting services, and network management and security include SipStorm, MD TalkNet, Dollar/Thrifty Rent-A-Car, Disney/Buena Vista Pictures, PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. . About E Solutions Corporation E Solutions (http://www.esnet.com) is a Tampa-based hosting and application development firm that creates and hosts software solutions that enable clients ranging from global Fortune 100 firms to mid-sized and small businesses to attain significant return on their IT investments. Services performed at the Company's multiple Tier One data centers include custom application design and development; co-location and fully managed enterprise-level hosting services; network management and security; web statistical reporting; and streaming video services. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion