Latisys-Chicago delivers a carrier-neutral facility featuring premium internet providers: Zayo, Level3, XO, AT&T, Cogent, Comcast, Verizon, Windstream, Time Warner Telecom and connections to the carrier hub in downtown Chicago. In this video, Rob Daly discusses the recent expansion of Latisys' CHI2 facility.
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As Latisys-Chicago completes our fifth data center expansion in the last four years, we spent some time with the people involved in the design and build-out of DC05 in CHI2. Here is Matthew O'Hare from Executive Construction Inc.
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Posted by: Jonathan Sharp, Vice President of Marketing
Just as the emergence of the factory and mass production marked the beginning of the industrial revolution, today’s modern data center has become the definitive commerce platform powering business globally. Virtualization, cloud computing, and IT Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) are propelling enormous growth in web hosting and outsourced IT services with the global addressable forecast to reach $340 billion by 2015 according to Gartner.   ...

Latisys VP Jonathan Sharp discusses the emergence of Microsoft Hyper-V as a key advancement in providing the choice and flexibility necessary to support today's hybrid workflows while also being mindful of the cost pressures customers feel when licensing technology.
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Latisys VP Jonathan Sharp discusses how constantly changing IT infrastructure requirements are driving demand for flexible solutions architected on hybrid and converged IT infrastructure.
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Christian Teeft, VP of Engineering at Latisys, continues his discussion about Hybrid IT services. In this blog Christian outlines key value from Hybrid IT being achieved the enterprise. This includes maximizing existing investments, improving IT performance via scalability, and optimizing critical resources by allowing them to focus more on the business and less on infrastructure.
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Hybrid IT - Customized IT infrastructure solutions utilizing technologies and services optimized to solve problems for the enterprise.
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Jonathan Sharp, VP of Marketing, looks at the emergence of Microsoft Hyper-V as complementary option - particularly for small and mid-size enterprises already using Microsoft SQl, SharePoint, and Exchange. Hyper-V is now certified for Latisys’ Enterprise Cloud powered by HP’s hypervisor-agnostic Cloud System Matrix.
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Open Compute is a community-based approach to hardware design and specification. While its effects across the broader data center market are likely to take some time, Open Compute has the potential to impact the relevance of traditional server vendor competencies. In this blog, Christian Teeft, Latisys VP of Engineering weighs in what it might mean for the enterprise.
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Posted by: Christian Teeft, VP of Engineering
Here at Latisys we’re focused on providing enterprise customers with flexibility—in the form of choices—for how they deploy, manage and scale their IT infrastructure….and because our cloud is hypervisor agnostic, our customers will soon have the ability to deploy Hyper-V vms in addition to or as an alternative to ESX.  ...