NJVC, a company that has traditionally provided data center services to the US government’s intelligence and defense agencies, is expanding its target market to include financial services, energy and healthcare verticals. Simultaneously expanding its data center infrastructure, the company has launched a data center in Reno, Nevada.

K.C. Mares, a data center developer and consultant, said the two-story facility used to house a data center by BEA Systems, a provider of infrastructure solutions for enterprise applications that was bought by Oracle in 2008 for US$8.5bn.

NJVC is leasing the space from the building’s owner, with plans to eventually relocate to a new data center at the Reno Technology Park (RTP). RTP is a large property in Reno that provides access to a variety of power-transmission lines, natural-gas pipelines and renewable energy, targeted primarily at the data center industry.

In June, Apple became the first company to make public its plans to build a data center in RTP.

Unique Infrastructure Group, the company behind RTP where Mares is a partner, has helped NJVC negotiate its lease in the former BEA data center. The companies expect NJVC to outgrow capacity available at this site, at which point it will move to a build-to-suit data center in RTP.

“We essentially brokered the deal for them to move into that space as a temporary home, as they build out their business,” Mares said. The former BAE data center can carry up to about 3MW of load, he said.

Mares has a long history with this data center. In 2002, he worked for Redundant Networks, a service provider that built the facility out and eventually sold it to BEA.

He left following the sale, but came back in 2005 to manage BEA’s global labs and data centers.