About 15 jobs, most of them of the high-tech variety, will be created when Peak 10 completes a data center it's building in the Cincinnati suburb of West Chester. Peak 10 is a data center operator and managed services provider that hosts and manages information technology infrastructure. It numbers among its customers companies such as LendingTree, Rivals.com, Global Knowledge, Pergo, Churchill Downs and The Fresh Market. Peak 10's new 22,000 square foot facility is positioned between Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, a region that, combined, would be the 15th largest metropolitan area in the U.S.
Peak 10 just reached a deal with tw telecom (formerly Time Warner Telecom) to use its Ethernet services at the Cincinnati site. In tech-speak, that means the Cincinnati data center will be linked to the tw telecom network via a gigabit-Ethernet network, giving Peak 10 the ability to sell its service on demand – and burst to three times its subscribed capacity. "The benefit of burstable bandwidth is that it ensures our ability to maintain our high service levels to customers during peak traffic periods," says Ronnie Frames, Peak 10's director of network services and engineering. And that, in non-tech speak, is a good thing.
Writer: David Holthaus
Source: Peak 10
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