CenterPoint Properties has announced that it is breaking ground on a 62,000-square-foot colocation data center at the DuPage National Technology Park in West Chicago.
The build-to-suit facility, called the Cyber Continuity Center will be owned and managed by Cyber Continuity Center West Chicago, L.L.C., and is expected to open in the Spring of 2007.
Charles Wm. Foster, Cyber Continuity Center's managing partner, said: "We are excited to work with CenterPoint Properties at the DuPage National Technology Park. It provides a great opportunity to bring an innovative technology product to market and deliver premier data storage and disaster recovery services to our infrastructure-intensive client base. Cyber Continuity Center will be Chicagoland's most secure co-location data center, catering to a broad range of information sensitive companies.
The Cyber Continuity Center will meet (and exceed) the Uptime Institute's Tier III Data Center designation, making it one of only a handful of such facilities in the United States. The rapid growth of digital information and Internet use is driving the need for data storage and co-location services, which allows off-site businesses to use the facility as either their primary data center or as a redundant disaster recovery center. Cyber Continuity Center will contain two separate areas managed and operated by a technical support team. One space will house multiple server racks for lease by businesses requiring data storage support. The second space will offer micro-suites', which are entirely private data centers that benefit from the Tier III infrastructure of the larger building.
"We master planned the DuPage National Technology Park to satisfy the data capacity and information security demands of 21st century businesses, said Fred Reynolds, SVP of Development at CenterPoint. "Cyber Continuity Center is an excellent example of an innovative company that will benefit from the advantages offered here, advantages not available at any other location currently in the market.