Internap's New Dallas Fort Worth Data Center Achieves Green Globes Certification

After a detailed review process by the Green Building Initiative (GBI), Internap’s (News - Alert) Dallas data center has received Green Globes certification.

Through a rigorous online assessment and comprehensive site visit and evaluation by an independent, third-party evaluator, Green Globes helps commercial building owners advance environmental performance and sustainability. Minimizing impact on the land surrounding the building and offering a better working environment for occupants, Internap adhered to numerous standards including consuming fewer fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse emissions, conserving water, reducing other forms of pollution to achieve Green Globes certification, the company stated in a press release.

“With energy use spiraling in data centers, it has become more important than ever to drive efficiencies across all possible areas throughout the data center -- from design and equipment to operations and processes," said Randy Ortiz, director of data center design and engineering at Internap. "Working with the Green Building Initiative helped us to realize our goals of attaining the highest environmental efficiency standards at our Dallas data center and continuing to set the bar for our new facilities going forward.”

Offering services such as managed hosting, colocation and a global, performance-optimized IP network, backed by a 100 percent uptime Service Level Agreement to the area's diverse range of enterprises, Internap's Dallas data center is a high-reliability, high-density facility that provides comprehensive IT Infrastructure services. The state-of-the-art data center serves customers with 55,000 square feet of net-sellable floor space that incorporates efficient design and operational practices from the ground up and was opened in December 2011.

Recently, the company sponsored a complimentary Webinar, “Is Your IT Infrastructure Future-Proof? Colocation to the Cloud” on February 22.