Skybox
Datacenters Teams with T5 Facilities Management to Launch Turnkey
Data Center Services to Companies in the Houston Energy Corridor.
Houston,
TX, USA (September 9, 2014) -- Skybox Datacenters™, a
Dallas-based data center developer, today announced it has formed a
strategic partnership with T5 Facilities Management (T5FM). Through
this strategic partnership, Skybox will offer move-in ready wholesale
data centers in mid-market locations operated by the same team that
operates T5 Data Centers'™ national portfolio of wholesale data
centers. Construction on the first data center initiative, Skybox
Houston One, is expected to be completed in November and it will be
commissioned in January 2015.
Skybox
Datacenters recently broke ground on its Skybox Houston One facility,
an 86,960-square-foot purpose-built data center with four independent
data halls; the first wholesale data center to serve the Houston
Energy Corridor. The new Skybox Houston One facility offers dedicated
data halls at 1.2 to 2.4 MW each with lower overall total cost of
operations than retail data centers. Additionally, Skybox uniquely
offers tenants the ability to procure and negotiate their own power
contracts directly with the provider of their choice. Under the
partnership agreement, Skybox will serve as landlord and T5FM will
provide facilities support and operations management for Skybox
Houston One.
"Skybox
and T5 have very similar philosophies as to how to best serve data
center customers, and through this partnership we can bring T5's
facilities management expertise to new customers in mid-market
regions," said Mike Casey, COO of T5. "The expertise and
protocols that existing T5 customers rely on will adapt quite well to
Skybox's clientele."
T5FM
offers comprehensive on-site data center management; the same
comprehensive facilities management that T5 uses in its data centers
in Atlanta, Colorado, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, North Carolina,
and Portland. T5FM will apply the same kind of best practices used in
all of T5's data centers, including policies and procedures to
mitigate risk and eliminate operational concerns with an emphasis on
safety, training, and communications.
"The
strategic partnership between Skybox Datacenters and T5FM will bring
the best data center management expertise available to our
customers," said Rob Morris, Managing Partner, Skybox
Datacenters. "This partnership allows us to focus on our core
development business while knowing that the T5FM team will keep
operations running smoothly. It's a great marriage."
Using
this wholesale data center business model, Skybox will lease
self-contained data center halls to customers, each with its own
dedicated mechanical and electrical infrastructure, so customers
retain total operational control. An on-site T5FM team will provide
infrastructure support. Skybox Houston One is specifically designed
to cater to the needs of oil and gas, healthcare, and other large
corporations in the region to meet their business-critical,
high-performance, ultra low latency computing needs.
About
Skybox Datacenters
Skybox
Datacenters builds and owns world-class data center facilities for
enterprise grade users with ultra-low latency connectivity and
mission critical resiliency as a core focus of our platform. Each
Skybox facility is uniquely crafted to its particular market and the
demands of its users. Skybox focuses on purpose-built facilities in
the wholesale segment of the market and is capable of speculative and
build-to-suit projects. Skybox Datacenters is a joint venture between
Rugen Street Capital and Bandera Ventures.
For
more information, visit http://www.skyboxdatacenters.com.
About
T5 Data Centers
T5
Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and
operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers
that provide an "always on" computing environment to power
mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides
enterprise and wholesale colocation data center services to
organizations across North America using proven, best-in-class
technology and techniques to design and develop facilities that
deliver the lowest possible total cost of operations for its
customers. T5 currently has business-critical data center facilities
in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Charlotte with new projects
announced in Portland, New York, and Colorado. All of T5's data
center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring robust design,
redundant and reliable power and telecommunications and have 24-hour
staff to support mission-critical computing applications.
For
more information, visit
http://www.t5datacenters.com/facilities-management.
Contact:
Aaron
Wangenheim
T5
Data Centers
(415)
292-7700
Gordon
Kellerman
Skybox
Datacenters
(713)
999-4400
