It helps for a technology startup to have staying power these days. And star power probably doesn't hurt, either. Charles Johnson, who helped lead the University of Colorado Buffaloes to a national football championship in 1991, and Alfred Williams, who helped lead the Denver Broncos to two Super Bowl championships, now hope to lead a new technology company to the top of the Internet data center heap. The first phase is scheduled to open in July and will include 20,000 square feet of space for customers to house their network equipment and connect to a superfast Internet backbone. When completed about six months later, the facility will have about 115,000 square feet of available space, making it among the largest of its kind west of the Mississippi River.
Businesses really have to be conscious of their bottom line.
For a lot of companies, it makes more sense to house their network in a data center than build the infrastructure in-house, he said. John Spuhler, senior vice president of sales and marketing, said he believes the company will sell out its first phase by the time it is ready to open. The company isn't afraid of signing up dot-coms as customers. The privately held company won't disclose its financial backers or the amount of capital required to build the data center. The company also hopes to build an additional 1 million square feet in various cities across the United States.