Latisys, a leading national provider of colocation, managed hosting, managed services and disaster recovery solutions, today announced a significant expansion to its data center presence in Orange County with the development of a new, 93,000 square foot Tier 3 data center facility in the heart of the Orange County business market. The expansion positions Latisys as the largest data center operator in Orange County.

Located within several hundred feet of Latisys’ current Irvine, California OC1 data center, the new Orange County 2 (OC2) high-density (HD) facility comes with an initial 10 Megawatts of utility power, and is being designed to support an average power density up to 250 watts per square foot. More than doubling the HD, raised floor square footage available to Latisys customers, the new Orange County facility will deliver colocation, cloud services and managed hosting services, and feature access to a wide variety of existing redundant fiber networks. The data center will accommodate customer deployments ranging in size from single cabinets and colocation cages to large private suites. Customer installations will be ready for deployment in Q2 2011.

“Today’s expansion announcement reflects a sizable investment and commitment to Orange County data center enterprise customers, and builds further upon our belief that Latisys’ is the premier destination for customers that need or want to grow, yet can’t scale their own infrastructure in the Orange County market today,” said Peter Stevenson, CEO, Latisys.

Latisys continues to see consistent and growing demand among industry-leading organizations – ranging from Fortune 500 firms and mid-sized organizations to government agencies – for its managed hosting, high density colocation and disaster recovery services. Customers are also turning to Latisys for IT infrastructure outsourcing (ITO) services that adapt to evolving enterprise customer requirements, whether they want to off-site, off-load, outsource or optimize their IT infrastructure.

Tom Panarisi, Regional Vice President, Latisys, adds, “The new facility, in tandem with a growing national footprint, reinforces Latisys’ flexible and agile approach to delivering IT infrastructure outsourcing services, and enhances our ability to serve existing and prospective customers in Orange County.”

About Latisys

Latisys is a leading provider of colocation, managed hosting, managed services and disaster recovery solutions to medium-sized businesses, enterprise customers and government agencies. With a heritage serving business customers since 1994, and multiple high-density, SAS70 Type II compliant data centers across the United States, Latisys offers scalable outsourced IT infrastructure management solutions that provide customers what they need, when they need it. The firm’s new, state-of-the-art Tier III data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia compliments existing facility operations in Chicago, Denver and Irvine, California. As a data center-centric company, Latisys is quickly becoming the hosting and colocation company of choice for companies that demand more from their IT infrastructure partner. All while optimizing clients' return on investment. All while 'delivering more_'. Call 1-866-956-9594 or visit www.latisys.com for additional information.