Event Showcases its World Class DFW3 Facility in a Growing Tech Market
Dallas, TX – May 29, 2019 – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announces its role as presenting sponsor and host of Bisnow’s Data Center Investment Conference & Expo (DICE South ‘19) on August 20, 2019. DICE South ‘19 is a full day premium event with a goal of networking with the leading owners, developers, investors, end users and major players in the booming Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) data center market.
Dallas is the third-largest data center market in North America behind Northern Virginia and Silicon Valley. The Dallas data center market is already home to over 500 MW of commissioned data center space. With additional large projects under construction or in planning stages and a high demand from enterprise tenants, it’s clear the Dallas market is primed for growth in the years ahead.
DICE South ‘19 will take place at DataBank’s DFW3 Uptime Certified TIER III Data Center, the third in the Dallas area, which is located at 8375 Dominion Parkway – Plano, TX. In addition, the facility provides:
- 144,000SF total and 72,000SF of raised-floor space for build-to-suit client deployments
- Total footprint can be expanded to 265,000SF
- Ideal location near Legacy Park and network availability to multiple dark fiber providers with redundant backbone connectivity, public cloud on-ramps, access to Peering Fabrics and blended-bandwidth solutions
- Diverse utility feeds of more than 40MW of power
- Full perimeter fencing, round-the-clock on-site security personnel and dual-factor authentication for all entrances
Speakers at the event include Romelia Flore, Distinguished Engineer & Master Inventor, IBM, Girish Ramachandran, Chief Technology Architect for the city of Dallas and Raul Martynek, CEO of DataBank.
“DataBank is thrilled to be hosting DICE South ‘19 at our world-class facility in Plano. The Dallas-Fort Worth area has a very favorable business climate and is among the top ten best economies in the country. DFW has very attractive power supply and costs, a diverse fiber infrastructure and a large tech work force,” comments Martynek. “It’s an ideal area for further tech and cloud infrastructure growth.”
Panelists will touch on topics of data center financing and investment strategies, ideal site selection, innovations in data center design and construction, cloud, hybrid cloud and managed services, Next-Gen applications like AI and IoT, modernizing infrastructure and the state of the market. For a full list of speakers and topics, learn more and register, visit the Bisnow events website. To learn more about DataBank’s world-class DF3 facility, please visit www.databank.com.
