Denver Data Center

Latisys-Denver is the premier data center facility in the Rocky Mountain region. In an era of higher-density computing and with the costs of power increasing every year, our Denver facility is specifically designed for high capacity growth.

With high-density data centers located in every U.S. time zone, you not only get local access to scalable outsourced IT infrastructure solutions, but you get the advantage of Latisys’ national reach for multi-site redundancy, managed backup and secure disaster recovery. Plus, each Tier III facility has been specifically designed for the business continuity of your mission-critical operations — offering the power, cooling, backbone network and managed services your IT operations need — while immediately reducing your capital expenditures for storage and ongoing maintenance.

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Facility Specifications

DEN2:
DEN2
  • Newly built in 2012, premium 36" raised floor data center space in a 87,000 sq. ft. Tier III facility
  • Customer supported and manned 24x7x365
  • NEBS Level 3-compliance
  • Air Containment Optimized
  • Reflective white roof rejects solar heat before it enters the building
  • Carrier-neutral facility with multiple carriers providing fiber into the data center
  • Redundant power and cooling as well as raised floor space specifically optimized for high-density and ultra-high-density deployments
  • Redundant cooling and power distribution engineered at 175 to 310 watts per sq. ft.
  • Energy efficient "Green" cooling solutions employed throughout the facility are engineered to achieve industry-leading PUE of 1.3
  • Close proximity to DEN1 (3 miles) solar heat before it enters the building
  • Download DEN2 Data Center Facility Specifications (PDF)
DEN1:
  • Just under 30,000 sq. ft. of premium data center space
  • Redundant power and cooling as well as raised floor space
    specifically optimized for high-density deployments
  • More than 22 Gigabits of Internet bandwidth active over four Tier 1
    providers — with capacity to expand
  • Strategically positioned in an area of low seismic activity
  • Concrete slab foundation and reinforced steel structure

Building Access and Security

Security

The Latisys security system includes these key features:

  • 24x7 on-site security and NOC staff, with a minimum of two staff
    members at all times
  • Alarm system with cameras on all perimeter points of the building;
    video and camera surveillance within facility
  • Multi-level access authorization with man trap, biometric verification
    and security controlled access level assignment

 

Electrical Power Infrastructure

Features and functions of our power infrastructure include:

  • With four separate UPS systems, each at N+1 redundancy, we
    can offer true A/B power feeds to each rack
  • UPS systems fed from diverse sources to prevent loss of
    critical power
  • 48V DC power plant with redundant rectifiers and batteries
  • Starline Busway rail power distribution offers quick, flexible power
    deployment
  • Distribution system designed to deliver dual-feed power to every rack
  • Critical components are equipped with bypass mechanisms, allowing
    for full maintenance without interruption
  • With the employment of items such as blanking panels, air dams
    and venting solutions, we can provide over 10KW per rack

Cooling Infrastructure

  • Cooling available at N+1 redundancy
  • Redundant and energy-efficient ultrasonic humidification systems
    maintain precise humidity distribution
  • Raised floor plenum with minimal obstructions provides cooling to
    server racks
  • Hot aisle and cold aisle configuration utilizing air containment
    solutions to increase efficiency and density while maintaining
    strict cooling standards that exceed ASHRAE specifications

Fire Detection and Suppression

  • Off-site alarm monitoring and fire department dispatch
  • Multi-zoned above and below-floor detectors that are monitored
    both internally and off-site with fire department dispatch
  • Pre-action dry pipe fire suppression systems that only fill with water
    in the event that two or more sensors are triggered in the same zone
  • Only discharges in area where the temperature would rise to
    trigger a fire sprinkler head

Telecommunications & Network Connectivity

  • Carrier-neutral facility (Time Warner Telecom, XO, Qwest, Verizon, Savvis, Level3 and more)
  • Multiple active Internet connections
  • 10 Gb connections with Level3, Savvis and XO
  • Sub-1 millisecond access to Savvis’ four national OC-192s

Facility Views


DEN2 Straight View

DEN2 Angle View

DEN1

The Denver Team




Bryan Walsh, Regional Sales Director
Bryan
 Walsh is the Rocky Mountain region Regional Sales Director at Latisys. In his role, Bryan is responsible for the growth of the managed hosting and colocation business, with an emphasis on infrastructure platforms for scalability and security. Walsh brings 15 years of IT infrastructure sales experience to Latisys from various companies including Lucent Technologies, Avaya, IBM and Data393. 

 
Cody Schnakenburg

Cody Schnakenburg, Manager of Critical Infrastructure
Cody Schnakenburg holds the position of Manager of Critical Infrastructure and has been with Latisys for six years. Based in Denver, Cody is responsible for all data center and facility operations, as well as environmental monitoring systems nation-wide. Before joining Latisys, Cody worked in various capacities within the IT industry for over eight years, which included management and technical responsibilities.

 
Autumn Salama

Autumn Salama, Senior Manager of Implementations
Autumn Salama
is the Senior Manager of Implementations at Latisys. In her role, Autumn is the authority for customer deployments across all Latisys sites nationwide. Her team project manages all new customer installations, upgrades and service disconnects. Prior to joining Latisys, Mrs. Salama ran the Network Operations Center for photo-sharing website Photobucket.com where she was responsible for the uptime of their network, servers, storage and databases. Mrs. Salama holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from the Metropolitan State College of Denver.

 

Nationwide Coverage for Enterprise Customers

With the new Tier III Ashburn Virginia Data Center Facility complimenting existing facilities in Chicago, Denver and Irvine, California, Latisys now delivers coverage across all U.S. time zones, ensuring that enterprise customers have unmatched scalability and multi-site redundancy.
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Find Out More

For more information about the Latisys Denver Data Center, please call (303) 268-1470 or toll-free 866-956-9594. Latisys offers security, flexibility and adaptability with a customer-focused approach to meeting your IT infrastructure challenges. There are more nationwide Latisys data centers, including the Irvine data center,  Chicago data center, and the Ashburn data center, offering managed web hosting and managed IT services.