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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting and colocation provider Latisys (www.latisys.com) announced on Thursday that it has expanded its Ashburn, Virginia data center campus to include 14MW of additional power and 26,000 square feet of new raised floor space.
This expansion comes two weeks after Latisys introduced its new data center as a service offering for large enterprises and service providers that have requirements for high-density data center power, cooling and capacity.
With the additional power, Latisys says it is equipped to meet enterprise IT infrastructure requirements. The expansion enables Latisys to deliver flexible deployments that can scale to 220 watts per square foot.
“We continue to see customers express the need to ensure built-in expansion capacity to meet their own internal growth while also retaining the flexibility to keep pace with the evolution of compute, storage and network technologies,” David Haskell, Washington, D.C. Regional Sales Director, Latisys said in a statement. “By implementing high density power and cooling capacity, and delivering a flexible data center-as-a-service offering to enable larger private and public sector entities to meet evolving IT requirements, customers can eliminate scalability and reliability issues.”
According to the press release, the "private data center suites now available at the Ashburn Data Center Campus provide approximately 3,500 square feet and between 250 kilowatts to 2 megawatts of HD power as well as N
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