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United States : Windstream Hosted Solutions celebrates Chicago data center grand opening [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Windstream Hosted Solutions, provider of cloud and data center solutions and a part of Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network communications, officially celebrated the grand opening of its newest enterprise-class data center in Chicago on Sept. 10. This center, part of Windstream s ever-expanding national network, is a 20,000-square-foot facility with more than 15,600 square feet of raised floor data center space and is fully equipped to support Windstream s new EMC®-powered storage services. During the evening s celebration, guests were treated to exclusive data center tours, as well as a meet-and-greet with National Football League (NFL) legends Mike Ditka and Mike Singletary. Our growing network of data centers is designed to support the changing and growing needs of our enterprise customers, said Chris Nicolini, Windstream s senior vice president of cloud and data center operations. In essence, the Windstream Hosted Solutions team becomes an extension of our customers Information Technology (IT) staff, handling their maintenance tasks, providing compliance support for industry regulations, keeping critical data protected and making sure their business operations continue in the event of a disaster. The Chicago center, which opened in late 2013, features EMC-powered storage solutions for the enterprise such as VMAX®-powered Infrastructure and Storage as a Service, with high-end replication and recovery options that integrate into Windstream s existing Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) product suite. Windstream Hosted Solutions offers a robust cloud computing solution that dramatically improves the efficiency and availability of organizational IT resources and applications, allowing enterprise customers to rapidly deploy capacity without capital investments so they can reshape their environment on demand, with an even greater degree of confidence in their existing infrastructure. The Chicago multi-tenant data center (MTDC) market has experienced a supply/demand imbalance in the Western suburbs, as well as in downtown Chicago, for several years now, said Rick Kurtzbein, research analyst at 451 Research. Windstream s new MTDC facility offers enterprise-quality colocation services, as well as a suite of managed hosting and cloud infrastructure services, providing Fortune 1000 companies with data center services that we expect will be well received in the active Chicago MTDC market. Windstream, collaborating with EMC Corporation, offers customers the choice to store or back up data to multiple dedicated or shared EMC platforms in cloud-enabled data centers while leveraging Windstream s high-quality Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network with Quality of Service (QoS) for optimized performance. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |