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Telx Dallas Sites Connect with Infomart
May 19th, 2009 : Rich MillerTelx will link its two Dallas area data centers to the Infomartcarrier hotel at 1950 Stemmons Freeway via a dark fiber ring. The company said today that it had chosen Fiberlight, LLC for the network connections, which will provide customers in Telx’s Dallas-area facilities at 2323 Bryan and 8435 Stemmons Freeway with low-latency access to more than 100 carrier and service providers located in the three locations.
“Many customers choose Telx because of our ability to offer a myriad of network choices,” said Rose Klimovich, Vice President of Product Development and Product Management for Telx. “The addition of 1950 Stemmons Freeway to our Dallas ring offers additional bandwidth and circuit options to our customers, creating even greater possibilities for our customers.”
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Horizon Buys Managed Services Firm
April 23rd, 2009 : Rich MillerHorizon Data Center Solutions of Dallas has acquired Mareechi, an application service provider (ASP) with more than 100 clients. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Horizon said the combined businesses have an estimated 2009 revenue in excess of $20 million. Horizon, which already has more than 50,000 square feet of data center space in the Dallas market, said it also is planning expand one of its facilities during the third quarter, and is developing plans to expand with new data centers in Houston and on each coast within the next 12 months.
Horizon CEO Lance Smith said the company had planned to build a managed services division as part of its operations, but rapid growth led the company to look for an acquisition that would allow it to expand into the managed services area more quickly.
“Our customers began asking us for more services that would save them money,” said Smith. “We had two options: build it or acquire it. We felt the most prudent strategy would be to find a company with a proven track record and existing customer base, acquire it, and provide benefits to both sides of the house. With Mareechi, we found our opportunity.”
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Judge Denies Bid to Reclaim Seized Gear
April 9th, 2009 : Rich MillerA Dallas judge has denied a company’s request to force the FBI to return storage hardware seized during last week’s raid of a Dallas data center, even though the FBI admits that the company is not a target of the investigation. Instead, the court directed the FBI to supply the company, Liquid Motors, with a copy of its data while retaining the hardware for further study.
“The United States confirmed that the Plaintiff is not a target of the criminal investigation, but that plaintiff’s equipment may have been used by members of the criminal conspiracy to conduct or facilitate the criminal enterprise,” Judge Jorge Solis of U.S. District Court wrote in his ruling, which has been posted by Wired’s Threat Level along with the filing by Liquid Motors.
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FBI Defends Dallas Equipment Seizures
April 8th, 2009 : Rich MillerThe FBI is defending its actions in several controversial raids on Dallas data centers, in which it seized equipment belonging to customers with no visible ties to the fraud charges the agency was investigating. Owners of the two companies whose data centers were targeted, Core IP and Crydon, say the FBI seized all of the equipment in their data centers, interrupting service for dozens of companies.
The FBI is investigating allegations from AT&T and Verizon that the telcos were defrauded out of millions of minutes of VoIP traffic by companies housed in space Crydon was leasing at the Dallas Infomart carrier hotel, according to an affidavit filed as part of the case, which also mentions Core IP and owner Matthew Simpson. The FBI raided Crydon’s facility on March 12, and seized equipment from the Core IP data center at the 2323 Bryan carrier hotel in Dallas on April 2.
What remains unclear is why the FBI chose to seize all of the equipment in multi-tenant data centers. Crydon owner Mark Faulkner says his data center housed gear for more than 300 customers, while Simpson claims Core IP had 50 customers. In an interview with Wired’s Threat Level, an FBI spokesman explained the agency’s rationale for the seemingly indiscriminate equipment seizure.
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FBI Seizes Servers at Dallas Data Center
April 3rd, 2009 : Rich MillerThe FBI raided a Dallas carrier hotel Thursday and seized equipment from data center space operated by Core IP Networks. Agents armed with a search warrant appear to have confiscated all the servers in the facility, which houses gear for about 50 businesses.
“The FBI has seized all equipment belonging to our customers,” Matthew Simpson, the CEO of Core IP, said in a message. “Many customers went to the data center to try and retrieve their equipment, but were threatened with arrest.”
Simpson says the FBI told him it was investigating a customer of Core IP, but claims the company in question is a prior customer that no longer colocates with Core IP. Simpson told a Dallas TV station that the investigation concerns pirated movies.
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CyrusOne Expands into Austin Market
April 1st, 2009 : Rich MillerHigh-density colocation specialist CyrusOne continues to expand its footprint in the Texas data center market, announcing today that it will build a data center in Austin, Texas. The 50,000-square-foot facility is located in Austin’s MetCenter business park, which has been actively marketing itself as a destination for data center development.
CyrusOne said it has already lined up two anchor tenants from the energy industry to take space in the new data center, allowing CyrusOne to enter the market with positive operating income. The expansion gives the fast-growing Houston-based company six facilities totaling 380,000 square feet in Texas, including two facilities in Houston, three in Dallas and one in Austin.
“We have always been drawn to Austin because of the city’s vibrant culture and expanding technology industry, as well as its proximity to Houston and Dallas,” said David Ferdman, President and Chief Executive Officer of CyrusOne. “Now that we’ve created a strong and differentiated data center colocation platform that has great momentum in the Dallas and Houston markets, we are ready to finally bring a best-in-class data center option to the Austin marketplace.”
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CyrusOne Expands High-Density Colo Centers
February 17th, 2009 : Rich MillerCyrus One is expanding its data center campuses in Houston and Dallas, citing strong demand for its colocation services. The Houston-based company specializes in high-density colocation, and says it is seeing customer growth in both of its core Texas markets.
Cyrus One said last week that it has leased an additional 81,000 square feet of space in Dallas adjacent to its existing facility in Lewisville. The company has also recently commissioned two new pods totaling 25,000 square feet in its existing 125,000 square foot Houston campus. Upon completion of its new Dallas space, Cyrus One will have 310,000 square feet of data center facilities across five facilities, including two in Houston and three in Dallas.
“Despite the economic downturn, our momentum within these markets continues to thrive, as companies consolidate their national data centers in a colocation facility to minimize overall infrastructure costs and avoid significant capital expenditures,” said David Ferdman, chief executive of Houston-based Cyrus One.
But beyond that, the company’s two primary markets are very different, Ferdman said.
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Dallas Provider CoreXchange Raises Funding
January 28th, 2009 : Rich MillerDallas colocation provider CoreXchange has secured convertible debt financing from Red Barn Investments for infrastructure expansion, the company said today. The deal reflects confidence about prospects for the colocation business, which is expected to benefit as companies seek to avoid costly data center construction projects.
Red Barn previously supplied a round of funding last August. Terms of the funding were not disclosed.
CoreXchange operates a network connectivity exchange that allows customers to quickly get quotes on multi-homed connectivity using the CoreXchange Configurator, which currently offers six carriers. Connectivity services are available in the CoreXchange data center or at a customer’s remote location via local loop or metro Ethernet.
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