Chicago Data Center
If facilities are a reflection of the companies they house, then Hostway's new data center mirrors a reliable, growing company with state-of-the-art equipment. This new space will allow Hostway to offer colocation in Chicago for the first time and to expand its world-class hosting services.
Located at 100 North Riverside Plaza, in Boeing International's modern skyscraper, the facility is in the heart of downtown Chicago. With 36 stories and almost 1 million square feet of office space, the building is home to Boeing International's world headquarters. The data center will occupy a space originally built out for $200 million. Hostway is investing an additional $10 million to ensure the data center meets the leading industry standards for security, network availability, fire suppression and power capacity.
Hostway's New State-of-the-Art Data Center
Boeing Building — Chicago, IL
“[The new data center] ...will enable Hostway to continue to provide a fast, reliable and secure hosting environment for our customers.”
— Lucas Roh, CEO
Reliable
- Seven dedicated electrical feeds
- Powered by five different substations
- Connected to multiple transfer switches
- 1,500 kVA of uninterruptible power supply
Secure
- 24x7 live closed circuit TV monitoring
- Biometric access control
- Redundant power supplies
- Multiple HVAC systems
- Disaster recovery and geographic load balancing
Growing
- Capacity for 17,000 servers
- 31,000 square feet of server space
- Adds 50,000 square feet to total footprint
- Brings global footprint to 250,191 square feet
- Provides colocation services in Chicago
State-of-the-Art
- Level 3, Telia and MCI connectivity
- Accommodates custom build-outs
- 1,000 tons of available cooling
- $10 million in upgrades
- Formerly site of Ameritech's mission-critical facility
Hostway's Tier 3+ data centers in key locations across the globe are all built out with N+1 redundancy. The new data center is Hostway's 11th, and one of the largest commercially operating data centers in downtown Chicago.
