Colocation services provider
ViaWest has opened a data center in Chaska, Minneapolis, USA. The company, a provider of colocation, managed, and cloud services in the North American market, celebrated the launch with a opening ceremony that saw the attendance of Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Ms. Katie Clark Sieben.
ViaWest’s new PCI, SOC, SSAE and HIPAA compliant facility will offer private suites, cages, and cabinets. It offers 9 MW redundant UPS capacity, 700+ Watts/SF high density pod availability, highly efficient cooling systems and 3,000 of tons of redundant cooling capacity.
The data center features a “fault tolerant design” and will offer a wide range of solutions including colocation, managed, cloud services and hybrid options. It also offers in excess of 70,000 square feet of raised floor space. The company has announced it will pursue achieving Tier IV design certification for the facility, which is underpinned by an ongoing customer support that includes on-site engineers.
“We are excited to offer a wide scope of customized IT solutions to our customers, as we do in all 27 of our data centers throughout the US,” explained ViaWest’s Regional Vice President and General Manager of Minnesota, Todd Meester. “We focus on the customer above all else, and our solutions are built around them in every way possible. From compliance to scalability to peace of mind, our facility is an exciting addition to the business community in Minnesota.”
“We would like to thank ViaWest for choosing Minnesota for their expansion that will mean more than $60 million in new private investment for the state, as well as new, high-quality jobs added to our workforce,” added Katie Clark Sieben. “Our goal is to make Minnesota the heart of the data center universe, and businesses like ViaWest are helping us to move closer to that goal.”
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