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NYI Buys Level 3 Data Center

Carrier Hotels Staff Posted Jan 26, 2004

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New York Internet has taken over a Level 3 data center in Manhattan, and will market the space as a disaster recovery center, the company said.

Level 3 invested $20 million to fit out the facility, located on the top floor of 100 William Street.

"We are marketing this space as a local disaster recovery facility for New York City businesses that traditionally either maintained their servers in house, or at far-off sites that are difficult to manage," said Erik Koblence, President of New York Internet.

"After 9/11/01 and, more recently, (the blackout of) August 14, everyone is only looking into a high-end product in terms of colocation," says Phillip Koblence, NYI's Vice President of Operations. "We feel that this acquisition of a data center that maintained service on both 9/11/01 and 8/14/03, will allow us to take advantage of the infrastructure of the NYC Financial District while maintaining a mission critical and secure data center facility where clients from all over the world can be assured of their applications integrity and uptime."

New York Internet is a providere of colocation and dedicated servers, NYI posted the top reliability performance of any hosting provider in November, and was also in the top four for December, according to monthly performance monitoring by Netcraft.