Forsythe
Data Centers Turns to T5 Facilities Management (T5FM) to Ensure
Reliable Data Center Operations for New Retail+® colocation facility
in Chicago area.
Elk
Grove Village, Illinois, USA (January 30, 2015) -- T5
Facilities Management (T5FM), a T5
Data Centers company, which provides best-in-class
facilities management services to data center owners across North
America, today announced a new partnership with Forsythe Technology
to operate its new Forsythe
Data Centers Retail+® colocation facility. The Elk
Grove Village, Ill. data center is on track for completion and will
be open to tenants in May 2015.
With
this partnership, T5FM will deliver comprehensive data center support
and facilities management for Forsythe Data Centers, including
staffing, training programs, operational policies, and site-specific
procedures. T5FM will apply the same best practices that have been
proven in operating T5's own data center facilities in Atlanta,
Charlotte, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Portland.
"This
is the first step in a long-term relationship with Forsythe
Technology to deliver ongoing data center facilities management
services as Forsythe's business continues to grow," said Mike
Casey, President of T5 Facilities Management. "When we launched
T5FM, we had facilities like Forsythe Data Centers in mind as target
clients. Using what we learned managing our own data centers, we have
developed proven operational procedures to mitigate risk and
eliminate downtime with an emphasis on safety, training, process, and
customer communications."
Forsythe
Data Centers offers tenants secure, client-controllable, private
suites from 1,000 to 4,000 square feet, as well as micro-suites and
cabinets. The facility will also consolidate Forsythe's multi-vendor
Technology Evaluation Center, Integration and Configuration Center,
and Executive Briefing Center under one roof. The new data center
will use Forsythe's new Retail+® model, which features private,
hard-wall client suites like those in wholesale facilities, coupled
with the flexible, modular design of retail facilities.
"Partnering
with T5FM to manage operations allows us to focus on what we do best
- building optimized colocation facilities and delivering the
technology, products, and services our tenants need," said Steve
Harris, Vice President, Development, Forsythe Data Centers. "The
new relationship with T5FM will give our clients the best colocation
solutions with the finest operational support available."
For
more information visit http://www.forsythedatacenters.com.
About
Forsythe
Founded
in 1971, Forsythe
is one of the largest, independent IT integrators in North America,
serving approximately 1,000 U.S. and Canada-based companies. Clients
come to Forsythe for help optimizing cost, managing risk, improving
performance and enabling innovation within their IT and data center
operations to deliver greater value to their business. Forsythe's
experience crosses all facets of the data center. Forsythe provides
independent professional services and financial solutions, as well as
IT products from all the leading IT infrastructure manufacturers and
vendors, and related services. Forsythe is privately held and
100-percent employee-owned, with nearly 1,000 employees in 40
locations. 2013 was Forsythe's 43rd consecutive profitable year, with
revenues of $1.1 billion. Forsythe Data Centers, Forsythe/McArthur
Associates Inc., Forsythe Solutions Group Inc., Forsythe Technology
Canada Inc., Forsythe International Inc., KillerIT, Mentora Group,
SOS Security and Synnefo Technology Solutions are wholly owned
subsidiaries of Forsythe Technology Inc.
"Retail+®"
is a registered trademark of Forsythe Data Centers, Inc. in the U.S.
and/or other countries.
About
T5 Facilities Management
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. In addition to operating T5 Data Centers'
wholesale data center portfolio, T5 Facilities Management (T5FM), a
T5 Data Centers Company, provides 3rd party on-site facilities
management services to data center owners across North America. T5FM
applies the same best practices used in all of T5 Data Centers'
facilities, including policies and procedures to mitigate risk and
eliminate operational concerns with an emphasis on safety, training,
and customer communication. T5FM currently operates data center
facilities in Charlotte, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles,
Portland, and Chicago.
For
more information, visit
http://www.t5datacenters.com/facilities-management.
Contact:
Aaron
Wangenheim
T5
Data Centers
(415)
292-7700
