Data Foundry Blog: News

On Tuesday, August 3, 2010, Data Foundry’s executive team broke ground on the first phase of a $150 million, 250,000-square-foot data center located in southeast Austin. KVUE filmed the footage on location at the groundbreaking ceremony. This development is breaking new ground for the Austin economy by drawing corporate headquarters to the region for their data center needs....

Data Foundry Founders Carolyn Yokubaitis and Ron Yokubaitis, Congressman Lloyd Doggett, Austin Chamber of Commerce President Michael Rollins, to Celebrate Commencement of Construction 250,000 Square Foot Purpose Built Facility Provides Robust Data Centerand Disaster Recovery Solutions Austin, TX – AUGUST 2, 2010 – Data Foundry, a leading provider of wholesale and retail data...

Data Foundry’s President and Chief Financial Officer, Shane Menking, speaks with WHIR about the company’s latest development, a 40-acre Data Ranch. The first phase of a 250,000-square-foot data center named Texas 1 broke ground on August 3. Texas 1 is the beginning of the 40-acre Data Ranch campus designed to be home to multiple data centers providing colocation and worksite...

Austin, TX – July 16, 2010 – Data Foundry, a leading provider of wholesale and retail data center outsourcing, colocation, and disaster recovery services, today announces it has filed comments in the Federal Communications Commission’s Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on Broadband Internet Access in support of the reclassification of the transmission components of...

Austin, TX – JULY 15, 2010 – Data Foundry, a leading provider of wholesale and retail data center outsourcing, colocation, and disaster recovery services, today announces its participation in the sixth annual HostingCon conference being held July 19 – 21, 2010 in Austin, Texas. With a focus on providing high quality, secure services, Data Foundry will showcase its full suite...

Austin, TX (May 26, 2010) – Data Foundry, a leading provider of wholesale and retail data center outsourcing, colocation and disaster recovery services, today announced plans for a new 250,000 sq ft master-planned greenfield data center development in Austin. Construction on the first phase of the $150,000,000 data center will begin in July, with a projected...

Austin, TX – Data Foundry announced that after an exhaustive search for a colocation provider, Forestar Group Inc. (NYSE: FOR) has chosen Data Foundry. Forestar Group, an Austin-based company focused on sustainability and growth solutions in real estate, mineral resources and fiber resources, will leverage Data Foundry’s colocation facility infrastructure for its...

Recently, Data Foundry proudly hosted the latest meeting of NANOG (North American Network Operators’ Group) in Austin, TX. The event was a huge success with a worldwide attendee list coming together to discuss best practices and new technologies that will improve the quality of networks in today’s Internet centric world. Data Foundry Tests IPv6 at NANOG One of the...

AUSTIN, TEXAS—01/22/2010—Giganews, the world’s largest and most trusted Usenet provider for more than a decade, and Data Foundry, a leading, global provider of data center outsourcing, managed data centers, and disaster recovery services, will host 2010’s first North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG) meeting in support of the non-profit organization’s mission to...

Austin, TX – DYONYX, a leading IT Managed Services firm headquartered in Houston, Texas, announced today they have selected Data Foundry® to implement a robust disaster recovery initiative. Data Foundry will provide high availability data center services to support DYONYX’s expansion plans for the Texas market. DYONYX will now have a replicated server environment housed in...

Austin, TX – Smart Financial Credit Union, a leading financial institution servicing the Houston-Metro area, has awarded Data Foundry® with a multi-year disaster recovery services contract. They will utilize one of Data Foundry’s custom built cages to securely house their critical IT infrastructure in the event of a local disaster. Smart Financial Credit Union, headquartered...

Austin, TX – TOR Minerals International, Inc. (NASDAQ: TORM), a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty mineral and pigment products for high performance applications, announced today the completion of a major expansion with Data Foundry®. TOR Minerals International has leveraged Data Foundry’s Austin Data Center for over 5 years as their disaster recovery colocation...

Austin, TX – eLawSoftware, Ltd., a leading provider of criminal case management software, announced today that they have signed a multi-year contract extension with Data Foundry. Data Foundry® will support eLawSoftware’s rapid growth by providing them high-density colocation services as well as a suite of managed security and backup services. “Over the last few years we have...

Austin, TX – Sonic Healthcare USA, the United States operations of parent company Sonic Healthcare Limited (ASX: SHL), announced they have chosen Data Foundry® to fulfill their Data Center outsourcing needs. Sonic Healthcare USA will house their mission-critical server operations in one of Data Foundry’s fault-tolerant Data Centers. Sonic Healthcare USA, a leader in the...

Austin, TX – Neopost Software & Integrated Solutions® (formerly known as Neopost Loop One), a leading provider of web-based shipping, returns and logistics solutions, has relocated its servers to the Data Foundry® Internet Data Center located in Austin, Texas. Data Foundry is the leading provider of datacenter outsourcing and disaster recovery solutions in the Central...