Roseville-based SureWest Communications said it has completed its new data center in Lenexa, Kan.
Company officials said the new center has state-of-the-art systems to guard against power outages and fires, and it lies outside flood- and earthquake-prone areas.
“The new Kansas City (area) data center helps address the existing demand among local businesses for disaster recovery and business continuity efforts,” said Ed Butler, SureWest’s executive director of commercial sales. “Our customers will now be able to take advantage of and protect their networks with the very same infrastructure and environmental protections that we have in place to secure our own enterprise network.”
SureWest also operates two data centers in the Sacramento area.
SureWest expanded into the Midwest in February 2008 with the $173 million acquisition of the Lenexa-based telecommunications company Everest Broadband Inc., which provided services to Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan.
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