ViaWest Plans Fifth Site at Dallas Infomart

Colocation provider ViaWest has begun construction on a new data center at the InfoMart carrier hotel in Dallas, which will be the company’s fifth facility at that location, and the sixth in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro area.

The new data center, which is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of this year, will be the Denver-based company’s 16th data center, giving it a raised floor footprint than 260,000 square feet of data center space in Texas, Nevada, Colorado, Utah and Oregon. The company has grown through acquisitions of Fortix and Dataside.

ViaWest Acquires Dataside

Colocation and managed hosting provider ViaWest has acquired Dataside in a deal that brings together two fast-growing regional players in the data center market. ViaWest is based in Denver, and has facilities in Portland, Oregon and Salt Lake City. It will now add Dataside’s seven data centers - five in the Dallas market and one apiece in Austin and Las Vegas.

With the Dataside acquisition, ViaWest’s annualized revenue will exceed $100 million by the fourth quarter of 2008, the company said. ViaWest will immediately invest in the expansion of Dataside’s existing facilities in Austin, Dallas, and Las Vegas to meet the increasing demand for data center space in those markets, and will introduce additional managed services for Dataside customers.

“ViaWest has become a market leader in Colorado, Utah and Oregon by providing a wide range of mid-sized businesses with unparalleled support in addition to network, facility and solution sets that are second-to-none,” said Roy Dimoff, Chairman and CEO of ViaWest. “Likewise, Dataside has built a tremendous reputation servicing mid-size and Fortune 1000 companies’ infrastructure space needs. We could not be more enthusiastic with the scale and market opportunities that this acquisition provides.”

ViaWest Acquires Utah Data Center

Regional colocation and managed hosting provider ViaWest has acquired a 10,000 square foot Tier 1 data center in Salt Lake City that nearly doubles its service capacity in Utah, the company said Tuesday. The new facility is located in the Cottonwood Heights area in the Old Mill Office Park, and will allows ViaWest to expand its services in Utah, where it says it is seeing strong demand for data center services.

ViaWest, which is based in Denver and also has a facility in Portland, Oregon, says it will be expanding its entire data center capacity by more than 60 percent in 2007. A large percentage of the expansion efforts will focus on Salt Lake City, where ViaWest now has more than 200 customers, having just added online automative portal Vehix.com to its growing portfolio.

“A growing number of businesses in Salt Lake City, including Vehix.com, have realized the need to work with an organization that has a local presence and can offer a comprehensive solution for their growing data requirements,” said Roy Dimoff, CEO and co-founder, ViaWest. “The addition of the new Tier 1 data center in Salt Lake City reflects our continued effort to make investments in state-of-the-art data centers that provide the highest levels of managed hosting and colocation services.”

ViaWest Reports Stronger Colo Demand

ViaWest, a growing Denver-based colocation and managed hosting provider, said today that it experienced double-digit revenue growth and a 45 percent jump in increased existing customer demand in 2006. While not providing the underlying financial numbers, ViaWest said 2006 was “its best year financially in the company’s history.” The company also said it expects to continue expanding into new areas after entering the Portland, Ore. market last year through its acquisition of Fortix.

ViaWest said its 2006 revenue was up 53 percent from 2005, with the majority of that growth driven by new customers. “We have watched demand for managed hosting and colocation services steadily increase, particularly among small and mid-size businesses, as companies realize the need to invest in reliable secure hosting, on-demand support and data recovery options,” said Roy Dimoff, CEO and co-founder of ViaWest.

“This heightened demand helped ViaWest outperform our 2006 growth targets,” Dimoff added. “Last year, we expanded into Portland by purchasing a Tier-1 datacenter, signed more than 100 new customers and realized a 56 percent increase in revenue for colocation and hosting services in Colorado. Looking ahead to 2007, we are on track to further accelerate our success both organically and through additional expansion opportunities in new markets.”

More Expansion Ahead for ViaWest

Denver-based colo provider ViaWest is planning additional expansion beyond last week’s acquisition of Fortix, which gave it entry into the Portland, Oregon market. ViaWest has secured $31 million in debt financing from a “leading New York financial institution,” applying $13 million to the Fortix deal and debt retirement.

That leaves $18 million, which the company says is “earmarked for additional expansion and acquisition opportunities that strategically align with ViaWest’s business in its three existing geographic markets or helping the company expand into yet a fourth market.” ViaWest has data centers in Denver and Salt Lake City in addition to its newly-acquired facility in Portland.

ViaWest Buys Fortix, Enters Northwest Market

Denver-based colocation provider ViaWest says it has acquired Fortix, a managed services provider in Portland, Ore. The deal includes a data center operated by Fortix, giving ViaWest three facilities, with exisitng sites in Denver and Utah.

“ViaWest is market dominant in Colorado and Utah and has been successfully servicing mid-sized companies since 1999,” said Roy Dimoff, chairman and CEO, ViaWest. “There are many synergies between the two companies that make this a strategic fit, including the fact that Fortix also has been working with mid-sized businesses in Oregon for more than seven years. The addition of the Fortix team, its data center facility, customers and first-rate reputation allows ViaWest to become a significant force in a third major market.”