"An increasing number of organizations are turning to our suburban Chicago facility as a cost-effective, secure and seamless way to address their long term need for additional data center space, power and services," John McCreary, general manager of Latisys Corp., said. "The completion of the first phase of our facility expansion and employee growth reflect Latisys' commitment to providing customers with the scalability, flexibility and agility to grow and thrive."

The firm has doubled the size of its Chicago-are employee base since early 2009. It expects staff to continue to increase again by a third in the next six months. The Oak Brook facility has 70 customers, spanning Fortune 500 firms to small and mid-sized organizations, which rely on Latisys for co-location, managed hosting, managed services and disaster recovery solutions.