Smart Data Centers Feature Editorial

PAETEC (News - Alert) Holding Corp. has announced the opening of its new smart data center in Andover, MA, approximately 24 miles north of Boston. This state of the art Andover data center adds another feather in the hat of PAETEC.

PAETEC caters to medium and large businesses, enterprise organizations and institutions in financial, government, healthcare, higher education, and hospitality industries across the United States. The company is known for its comprehensive suite of IP, voice, data, and Internet services, as well as enterprise communications management software, network security solutions, CPE, and managed services. The new data center kick starts the company’s expansion plan, which is scheduled to take place over the next 18 months. PAETEC’s expansion plan involves opening of eight more data centers across the country, with new centers in Houston, Milwaukee, and Phoenix scheduled for later this year.

According to PAETEC, this newly opened, high-tech data center represents a major step forward for the company towards supporting cloud computing. It is designed to help customers maintain their critical data, server operating applications, network, and communications assets.

In the release, PAETEC informed that spread across 92,700 square feet area and comprising nearly an acre of raised floor space, the new data center is really expansive and ideal for the customers wanting to collocate their servers, routers, and other communication equipment.

The center will not only serve the companies in New England, but those nationwide with a need for geographic redundancy or a presence on the East Coast for reduced latency.

The company said that two types of customers will benefit from their new Andover data center---the customers, who seek to maintain complete administrative control over their data and those, who seek to completely outsource network monitoring and management.

The center will offer Data Backup and Recovery to ensure regulatory compliance, disaster preparedness, and business continuity, as well as Dedicated Hosted Services and Shared Web Hosting based on a customer's need to both types of customers.

“Moving business applications from the desktop to the cloud will bring efficiency not possible before. With our expertise in telecommunications and data convergence, we're in a leading position to support the shift towards cloud computing and can provide our customers with a comprehensive set of managed service solutions to meet their business goals,” Arunas Chesonis (News - Alert), chairman and CEO of PAETEC said.

“We're utilizing our more than ten years of data center experience along with our advanced portfolio of communication solutions. As a result, we've built an infrastructure that will responsibly serve our customers' needs now and in the future as we continue our data center expansion efforts, implement virtualization, and provide server consolidation, content acceleration, and software as a service offerings,” Chesonis added.