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Latisys, a provider of colocation, managed hosting, managed services and disaster recovery solutions, announced the expansion to its data center presence in Orange (News - Alert) County.

With the development of a new, 93,000 square foot Tier 3 data center facility in the heart of the Orange County business market, the expansion places Latisys as the largest data center operator in Orange County, company officials said.

Located within several hundred feet of Latisys’ current Irvine, California OC1 data center, the new Orange County 2 or “OC2” high-density or “HD” facility comes with an initial 10 Megawatts of utility power, Latisys announced.

The new OC2 facility is being designed to support an average power density up to 250 watts per square foot. The Orange County facility will double the HD, raised floor square footage available to Latisys customers. It will deliver colocation, cloud services and managed hosting services. The data center also provides access to a wide variety of existing redundant fiber networks.

The data center will accommodate customer deployments ranging in size from single cabinets and colocation cages to large private suites. Company officials said that customer installations will be ready for deployment in Q2 2011.

“Today’s expansion announcement reflects a sizable investment and commitment to Orange County data center enterprise customers, and builds further upon our belief that Latisys’ is the premier destination for customers that need or want to grow, yet can’t scale their own infrastructure in the Orange County market today,” Peter Stevenson, CEO, Latisys, said.

Latisys has observed growing demands among industry-leading organizations for its managed services. Consumers are also approaching Latisys for IT infrastructure outsourcing or “ITO” services that adapt to evolve enterprise customer requirements, whether they want to off-site, off-load, outsource or optimize their IT infrastructure.

Tom Panarisi, regional vice president, Latisys, adds, “The new facility, in tandem with a growing national footprint, reinforces Latisys’ flexible and agile approach to delivering IT infrastructure outsourcing services, and enhances our ability to serve existing and prospective customers in Orange County.”