Logicalis US Expands West Chester Operations Center

Solution Provider Invests in New Technical Resources, Adds Customer Briefing Center and Demo Showcase

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Dec 16, 2014, 10:27 ET

NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider (www.us.logicalis.com), announced today that it has made a significant investment in the Logicalis Operations Center in West Chester Township, OH, near Cincinnati. The Logicalis Operations Center is the heart of the company's managed services and cloud offerings. The recent investment adds square footage to the facility and includes the addition of a new Customer Briefing Center, a new Demo Showcase, and expands the infrastructure supporting client operations.

"Logicalis is investing heavily in the resources that will help our customers experience the cloud and managed services solutions they are considering before they make a buying decision or commit to a long-term relationship," says Mike Martin, Senior Vice President, Solutions and Services, Logicalis US. "We want to provide our customers with the highest degree of confidence in both Logicalis and the solutions we are designing for their specific needs, and we know that visiting the Logicalis Operations Center, seeing our solutions in action and talking with our experts in person, will give them exactly that."

Customer Briefing Center
The Logicalis Customer Briefing Center will be used for one-on-one in-depth executive meetings with clients as well as multi-customer solution briefings. Through the Customer Briefing Center, clients will have a convenient mid-country venue where they can attend expert presentations, meet with Logicalis solution architects, and talk with other customers who have invested in similar solutions. Briefings will include cloud and managed services offerings, converged infrastructure solutions, and related vendor products.

Demo Showcase
The Logicalis Demo Showcase will offer live demonstrations of converged infrastructure, communication and collaboration, and innovative data center solutions from Logicalis and its key partners in these areas.

Customers can attend live demonstrations in the West Chester facility or can experience demos via remote access.

Infrastructure Expansion
Logicalis has also added a new APC hot aisle containment system to the facility's data center. The new system protects mission-critical equipment and lowers electricity costs by matching cooling airflow to the system's workload. Additionally, the company added 45 new workstations to the center and continues to make technological enhancements that will better serve both existing cloud and managed services clients as well as prospects investigating potential solutions on site.

Key Facts

Location: 9277 Centre Pointe Drive, West Chester Township, OH
Square Footage: 7,604 additional square feet; total of 22,008 square feet
Workstations: 45 new workstations added
Demo Showcase: A new demo center showcasing solutions from HP, IBM, Cisco and other strategic Logicalis solution partners
New technology: APC Hot Aisle Containment Data Center

The Logicalis Operations Center is strategically located within a short drive of both the Dayton and Cincinnati airports, and within a five-minute drive of the Logicalis co-location data center facility which houses the company's Logicalis suite of cloud solutions.

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About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and collaboration, data center and cloud services, and managed services.

Logicalis employs over 3,800 people worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex IT infrastructures to meet the needs of almost 6,000 corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, EMC, NetApp, Microsoft, VMware and ServiceNow.

The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of $1.6 billion from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific and is one of the leading IT and communications solution integrators specializing in the areas of advanced technologies and services.

The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, with revenues of approximately $6 billion.

For more information, visit www.us.logicalis.com.

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Media contacts:
Lisa Dreher, VP, Marketing & Business Development,
Logicalis US
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425-201-8111
www.us.logicalis.com

Karen Franse, Communication Strategy Group for Logicalis US
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