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Colorado-Based Verio Launches First Texas Data Center

AUSTIN-A Colorado-based Web site operator for businesses has launched its first Texas data center, setting up shop in 30,000 sf at Austin's Met Center. Verio's next stop is Dallas, but not until January.

By Jackie Isaly | Updated on November 29, 2000

AUSTIN-Verio Inc., the world’s largest operator of Web sites for businesses, has opened its first Texas-based advanced data center here.The company plans to have another center up and running in Dallas by mid-January.

“Austin is a great place to launch this center because of the technological base and the presence of 800 of our employees in Austin, Houston and Dallas,” Jim Howard, Verio’s vice president of sales, tells GlobeSt.com. The company has leased 30,000 sf in the Met Center, located on E. Ben White Boulevard in southeast Austin.

The center offers businesses complete Internet services on a Tier One network, e-commerce packages, applications hosting and data backup and recovery. Verio’s staff will provide 24-hour, on-call technical support. The data center also promises a secure place for businesses to house their equipment with regulated power and physical access monitored with a biometric hand scan to control entrance and exit.

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