Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) hosting platform Servers.com has launched its offering in a data center in Miami, Florida.
The company offers its IaaS from colocation facilities, and has also expanded its operations in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; San Jose, Washington, and Dallas in the US, and Singapore.
The company focuses on latency-sensitive industries including gaming, iGaming, streaming, adtech, and fintech.
The new presence in Miami, according to the company, has been launched due to "customers wanting greater bare metal server options in closer proximity to their operations."
The site is particularly targeting the South American market, with Servers.com noting that high hardware costs in countries like Brazil limiting infrastructure access for companies.
“New locations are always about getting closer to something - whether that’s getting closer to users to reduce latency in gaming or getting closer to a specific platform. Miami is a really hot connectivity site down to Brazil and São Paulo in particular, and having a data center presence in Miami means we can serve the South American market without having to transfer that premium to our customers,” said Isaac Douglas, chief revenue officer for Servers.com.
“We’re primarily customer-driven in terms of opening new data centers. If customers want us to be somewhere, that’s where we go. And we can do it quickly because we always keep a supply of pre-stocked networking equipment which can be shipped and launched rapidly,” added Ilya Sokolov, EVP of product and engineering, Servers.com. “We’re always interested in growing our data center locations in response to customer requirements, and look forward to discussing potential new sites with them.”
While the company confirmed to DCD it is hosting in colocation facilities, it is unspecified which data centers it is using.
According to Douglas, the company sees further expansion "on the cards" but where and when is currently undetermined. The company's website lists Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Lagos, Nigeria as available for preorder.
Servers.com currently has operations in 22 global data centers and more than 3,000 customers worldwide. The company was acquired in July 2023 by CloudOne Digital. In October of this year, CloudOne Digital subsidiary Liquid Web launched a bare metal GPU hosting offering from two sites in the US and one in Europe.
According to DataCenterMap, Miami is home to 41 data centers. Operators include Iron Mountain, Digital Realty, Hivelocity, Equinix, RadiusDC, CoreSite, EdgeConneX, and QTS, among others.