FORTRUST Data Center

FORTRUST, DENVER’S LEADING DATA CENTER,
INVESTS $30 MILLION IN FACILITY EXPANSION AND BREAKS GROUND ON NEXT PHASE OF RAISED-FLOOR BUILD-OUT

—FORTRUST completes integrated systems testing on previous expansion making space immediately available for colocation—

—Data Center now maintains 224,000 square feet of facility
with expansions creating about 48,000 square feet of raised-floor capacity—

DENVER – FORTRUST, Denver’s leading high-availability data center services provider and colocation facility, today announced that it has invested $30 million without incurring debt to expand its world-class colocation facility and has broken ground on a new phase that will bring its current expansion to about 48,000 square feet of raised-floor colocation space. 

“Our clients seek exceptional reliability and constant information availability.  We’ve constructed FORTRUST with advanced infrastructure to exceed our clients’ most demanding requirements and support our offerings with the best team in the business,” said Rob McClary, general manager of FORTRUST.  “Our investment in FORTRUST’s future signals our commitment to ensuring that our clients’ people and their information remain connected.”

In addition, FORTRUST has completed integrated systems testing of its previous raised-floor expansion and associated infrastructure and more than 9,000 square feet is now immediately available for colocation as a private room/vault.  The entire expansion area features premium 36-inch raised floor, advanced technology and infrastructure that provides superior redundancy and resiliency further supporting FORTRUST’s client-focused offerings.  The expanded space is flexible and scalable in that it may house a single customer or be divided into private cages or suites.  Recently, FORTRUST accommodated a single Fortune 500 customer in another 9,000 square foot private room that was part of the data center’s overall expansion efforts.

In all of FORTRUST’s colocation areas, raised floor space is pre-installed with essential infrastructure elements, pre-tested to ensure and validate its design capacities and capabilities and may be completely customized to meet clients’ needs.  FORTRUST offers rapid provisioning, flexible configurations and quick installation for any-size enterprise across a spectrum of industries.  In addition to the advanced technical offerings, the Denver data center team engages with and supports every client as an extended member of their own internal operations team.

In addition to its technical offerings, FORTRUST is attracting a number of out-of-state businesses to its data center based on its desirable geographic location.  Information intensive companies in high-risk geographies such as the earthquake-prone West and hurricane-centric Southeast are seeking data centers located in low risk areas to house or back-up their data. 

“The data center business is FORTRUST’s business,” said Steve Knudson, FORTRUST’s chief executive officer.  “We continue to invest in our operations, infrastructure and people to ensure that our Denver data center provides the greatest value and most advanced offerings available in the marketplace today.”

The entire FORTRUST facility, including the newly constructed area, is progressively designed to deliver high-density and ultra reliable power via an extremely robust power architecture.  The facility is serviced by two utility feeders from separate substations and is engineered to an N+1 or better standard.  The electrical distribution system is comprised of multiple on-site 13.2 kV transformers, N+1 2MW generators, N+1 750kVA UPS systems and static transfer switches.  Equally important, FORTRUST has engineered the facility’s environmental systems to meet and exceed clients’ significant cooling requirements.

The entire FORTRUST facility is supported by a 24x7x365 state-of-the-art Network Operations Center, on-site security staff and multiple layers of physical security including biometric scanners, motion sensor activated cameras and digital recording to give FORTRUST clients peace of mind that their data is in trusted hands.  

About FORTRUST

FORTRUST is a world-class high-availability data center services provider, progressively designed and precisely managed to preserve business continuity for its clients.   FORTRUST’s premier offerings include adaptable colocation space for any-size enterprise supported by optimal power infrastructure, connectivity and physical security to safeguard mission-critical business services.  Leading companies choose FORTRUST to gain a trusted partner who will preserve and protect their data as well as serve as an essential extension of their operations.  Established in 2000, FORTRUST is privately held and based in Denver.  More information is available by calling 1-866-976-9379 or by visiting www.fortrustdatacenter.com. 

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