Latisys today announced that Photobucket Corporation, the world’s leading dedicated photo and video sharing service, has renewed its contract for data center colocation services – including access to high density data center space, power and cooling.
Denver, Colorado-based Photobucket has 100 million users and hosts more than 9 billion images and videos (approximately four million images and videos are uploaded every day). As a result of these demanding, bandwidth-intensive requirements, Photobucket has for the past five years relied upon Latisys’ data center colocation services to ensure it has the scalability, reliability and flexibility to support user and business growth. Photobucket will benefit from enhanced disaster recovery and redundancy through Latisys’ national footprint that spans all U.S. time zones, and will also leverage an expanded Denver presence that includes the existing Latisys 30,000 square foot data center and its newest 82,000 square foot, Tier III data center currently under construction.
“It has been critical during the past five years to work with a data center provider that understands the evolving and often unpredictable business requirements for an emerging, fast growing firm such as ours,” James Goss, Vice President of Operations, Photobucket Corporation. “No matter how challenging or unique the request, Latisys has, time and time again, remained flexible and fully responsive to our specific needs.”
While traditional data center colocation providers lock customers into long-term contracts with required minimums for space, power, cooling and other services, Latisys employs a highly flexible approach for pricing, support and IT infrastructure that enables enterprise customers to scale up and down quickly depending on changing business and market conditions.
By leveraging Latisys’ data center colocation services, Photobucket will also continue to benefit from:
- Reduced data center footprint – Latisys’ flexibility in adapting to technology advancements within the data center has enabled Photobucket to refresh some hardware and consolidate its footprint.
- Strategically located facility – Located near the tech center in Denver, Colorado, the Denver 2 data center provides easy reach from Denver International Airport, Centennial Airport, and major Interstates.
- Carrier Choice – The Latisys facility offers carrier neutral connectivity or its own redundant multi-homed IP access point, providing Photobucket with access to the best high performance bandwidth in the region, with over 23 Gigabits of Internet bandwidth currently active over multiple Tier 1 providers.
- State-of-the-art security – Each Latisys data center facility features multi-layered security systems, digital video surveillance, network monitors and a 24x7x365 fully manned Network Operations Center (NOC) that is tied to the national support team.
- Reduced TCO with elimination of capital expenditures – Rather than making capital investments in power, cooling, security and network access often required for a leased space, organizations can leverage Latisys’ investments in next-generation technologies, operational expertise and efficiencies, in addition to the data center infrastructure.
“Photobucket has established itself as one of the most promising technology companies in the Denver region, and we are excited to continue this partnership,” said Bryan Walsh, Denver Regional Sales Director, Latisys. “Our team focuses on working with customers like Photobucket to understand their unique needs, and then remaining flexible as these needs change. By taking this approach – and continuing to invest in new services and capabilities as evident with the recent Denver expansion – we are positioned to not only gain new customers, but keep them.”
With multiple high-density, Tier III data centers in Denver, Orange County, Chicago and North Virginia, Latisys offers a complete array of IT Outsourcing Services from colo to cloud, covering all U.S. time zones – including gateways into Asia Pacific and Europe – and providing unmatched scalability and multi-site redundancy to enterprise businesses.
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