Nerds in the City Selects IO Data Center as a Service to Provide Secure, Always-on Infrastructure
Phoenix, AZ – December 4, 2013 – IO, a global leader in software-defined data centers, today announced the company was awarded a contract by Nerds in the City to support its IT services and solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.
Nerds in the City will use IO Data Center as a Service (DCaaS) delivered out of IO Phoenix to provide its full service technology support, including disaster recovery/business continuity, integrated network management and more. IO’s global DCaaS offering is driven by the IO Intelligent Control platform, consisting of standardized, UL-listed IO.Anywhereﾮ modules that are controlled by the IO.OS data center operating system, software designed to provide unprecedented visibility and the rich data necessary to derive actionable intelligence from data center operations.
“We provide our clients with access to the same quality of IT services, products and professional expertise that is typically only available to large organizations without all of the associated overhead costs,” said Tareq Mansour, Owner, Nerds in the City. “IO provides us the secure, high availability enterprise data center infrastructure we need to support our clients’ unique business needs.”
IO.DCaaS provides customers the agility to deploy data center capacity quickly that is delivered at secure, reliable locations, which have multiple layers of protection, and are backed with a 100 percent uptime SLA. It offers flexible deployment options, from a single cabinet in a shared environment to dedicated modules and infrastructure. IO provides carrier-neutral data centers with a choice of multiple telecommunications carriers and free cross-connects.
“IO DCaaS will help Nerds in the City improve business agility while also lowering their costs associated with data center deployment and operation,” said Peter McNamara, Executive Leader, Global Sales and Customer Operations, IO. “Our solution allows Nerds in the City to achieve superior energy efficiency, physical and logical security, and reliability, with minimal capital expenditures.”
About IO
IO is a global leader in software-defined data centers and has pioneered the next generation of data center infrastructure technology. IO’s integrated hardware and software data center technology platform offers enterprises, governments, and service providers an innovative way to deploy, provision, and optimize data center capacity anywhere in the world. IO technology lowers the total cost of data center ownership compared to traditional data centers, enabling dynamic deployment and intelligent control based on the needs of IT equipment and applications in the data center.
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