ViaWest has opened its latest data center, in Chaska, Minn. It boasts more than 70,000 square feet of raised floor and is designed to be fault tolerant. ViaWest said that it will also pursue the North American Tier IV design certification from the Uptime Institute, the leading educational and standards organization in the industry, which represents the highest rating possible measuring quality and reliability in a data center.
ViaWest’s data center will offer customers colocation, managed and cloud services and hybrid offerings, with round-the-clock on-site engineers and service staff to help maintain uptime through remote hands capabilities, ticket tracking and event notification. The facility will offer a variety of space options, from private suites and cages to cabinets, along with multi-zone security. The data center is also fully compliant, meeting PCI, SOC, SSAE and HIPAA regulations.
“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 U.S.,” said Todd Meester, regional vice president and general manager of Minnesota. “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,” said DEED Commissioner 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.”
