Host.net Expands DR Facilities in Boca Raton, FL Campus

“Responding to our clients’ needs has always been something we are very focused on. Having depleted our existing DR space at our Boca Raton campus, we realized we needed to expand in order to meet both existing and new demand for BC/DR office space in the marketplace,” stated Jeffrey Davis, Host.net co-founder and CEO.

The expansion includes 5,000 square feet of custom suites designed to meet our clients’ specific needs. Host.net (Novacap Investments Inc.) also plans an additional 5,000 square feet to be ready in Q1, 2014.

“As successful and effective as our cloud and backup solutions are, we must also respond to the need for physical space for organizations to quickly and cost effectively be up and running should the need present itself. The biggest cost of BC is the lack of preparation,” further stated Davis.

With multiple data centers connected through a fiber optic backbone and metro ethernet network covering most major metropolitan markets, the company can ensure 5 nines (99.999%) uptime guarantee which is a aspect of Host.net’s Smart Cloud Architecture framework. This infrastructure is a benefit for South Florida clients as they can store data at an off-site data center that is virtually (and physically) nearby, backup their data to a remote location and know that in case of a disaster they can be up and running with little to no downtime.

The cloud solutions offer a data center environment with redundant and network connections for companies to place infrastructure. The company has data centers available to protect data and applications as well as a hybrid solution of colocation and cloud services leveraging its proprietary 4cNxGn Smart Cloud Architecture.

In addition to the DR space, the company completed an upgrade to its infrastructure at its Boca Raton campus. It added 1200A, three-phase, 480V service feeding a ASCO 7000 Series ATS for their phase-four colocation facility, which is backed up by an 800kW MTU generator. Both feed Liebert NXL 300 kVA UPS systems, with touch screen technology, and fully redundant internal components. The company also added another new 800kW MTU generator to handle the load of the phase-three colocation facility. Lastly, at its generator yard, two gen-to-gen ASCO Series 7000 transfer switches were added: each one fed by the primary 800kW generators, which are backed up by a legacy 1 Megawatt generator. This upgrade means that in the event of a failure of the main FPL feed, and/or the primary 800 kW generator at either colocation facility, the generator will step in and pick up the load thereby giving Host.net N+1 redundancy in both facilities.