OpSource, the newly acquired Cloud and managed-hosting business of the global IT services company Dimension Data, launched a data center in Santa Clara, California, which will support its offerings to enterprises, service providers and Software-as-a-Service clients.

Santa Clara-based OpSource said the new site lowers network latency for its clients located on the US west coast. It will serve as either a primary or a back-up site for customers and is fit for both development and production cloud environments.

Treb Ryan, OpSource CEO, said Silicon Valley, with its high concentration of software and web-based businesses, was a natural fit for the newest hosting facility. "In a place this innovative and fast-paced, a secure, low-latency development environment for testing applications and services in the cloud is a necessity."

OpSource's other data centers are located in San Jose, California, Ashburn, Virginia, London and Paris.

The company said the new location was another step in the process of integrating OpSource with Dimension Data's new Cloud Solitions Business Unit. NTT-owned Dimension Data bought OpSource in June and created a centralized Cloud business unit, making OpSource part of that unit.

Dimension Data CEO Brett Dawson said OpSource brought "a rich set of services, a sound Cloud architecture, and extensive experience in Cloud services that will meet immediate client needs - in addition to a Cloud infrastructure which supports development and growth in this space."