"Rackspace" decides to expand its managed data center area

Dupont Fabros Tech announced the opening of the Series E callable preferred Shares, which the company will use to develop the Grove Phase II data Center at Elk Sanlitun CH1, Illinois.

With the growth of cloud computing business, Rackspace Company in DuPont Fabros hosted data center space appears to be somewhat powerless. Rackspace decided to expand its data center in the Chicago area and proposed an expansion of 22500 square feet to accommodate the server. If business continues to grow, Rackspace will further expand the area of its managed data center. Recently, Rackspace decided to lease DuPont Fabros's additional space at the Elk Grove Sanlitun data Center in Illinois.

Over the past year, Rackspace has added more than 12000 new client servers, and most servers are being used for corporate cloud computing operations. Rackspace will add 3.9 megawatts of http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/6229.html "> Power" to the Chicago data center from July 2012 to early 2013, To provide support for deploying new data centers. At the same time, the company is expected to spend 125 million to 135 million dollars in a 15-year data center leasing contract. Dupont Fabros CH1 The second phase of the data center rental contract has reached 71% of the total, the data centre is expected to open in the first phase of 2012.

Meanwhile, data center solution provider Servercentral is preparing to ramp up input to the DuPont Fabros Data Center near Chicago, which is expected to have more than 3 megawatts of load power and 20000 square feet of space to accommodate the infrastructure. The first phase of the servercentral will be increased by 2000 square feet, with the second phase being implemented in the first quarter of 2012. Jordan Lowe, co-founder and CEO of Servercentral, said, "We have achieved great success in DuPont Fabros, and we are delighted to provide our customers with continuous high-density hosting services and cloud services." ”

This is the third time that Servercentral has expanded since 2009. Eventually they will have a total area of more than 40000 square feet and more than 2012 years of 5.5 megawatts of electricity supply. Hossein Fateh, President and CEO of Dupont Fabros Tech, said that "servercentral continues to strengthen facilities at Elk Grove, which further strengthens our partnership." Servercentral's move will be a winning outcome. (Li/compiling)

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