E Solutions Tampa Data Center Doubles Capacity

TMCnet has learned that E Solutions has acquired the Tampa, Fla., assets of Genuity Inc. to double its data center capacity.

Just in time, it seems. Today's announcement says E Solutions' Phase I Data Center is near capacity. The facility provides services for a number of regional sports franchises, including the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Tampa Bay Storms and 13 major league baseball teams. E Solutions also provides services for SipStorm, MD TalkNet, Dollar/Thrifty Rent-A-Car, Disney/Buena Vista Pictures, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, IBM and the American Red Cross.

E Solutions provides a range of services, including application development, managed hosting, network management and security. E Solutions current data center is a 16,000-square-foot facility on the 16th floor of Tampa's Park Tower. The Genuity facility adds another 9,060 square feet on the seventh floor.

E Solutions' announcement, emphasizing security and reliability, quotes President Michael Morizio as saying, "We’re built to physically withstand most natural or man-made disasters, including Kevlar-reinforced walls, triple redundant generators, and parallel UPS systems; we have no single points of failure." Today's release also says that the company's facility uses "ionic 'sniffers' to detect overheating ... an Inergen gas fire suppression system ... a dual pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system ... concrete reinforced bunker surrounding the exterior of the seventh floor ... three backup generators and fuel." Eleven 20-ton Liebert A/C units are used for cooling.

E Solutions also highlights the company's unique location right on "Tampa's two high-priority power grids" and "housed in the region's 'Telco Hotel,'" providing direct fiber connectivity "burstable to OC192." The data centers are also "on top of the regional telecommunications infrastructure," allowing for added bandwidth when needed.

AB -- 2/7/06