07 September 2011
Miami-based Terremark, which was bought by Verizon in early 2011 for about $1.4 billion, has taken over operations of a 185,000-square-foot data center in São Paulo, Brazil, and added an additional 15,000 feet to the facility.
“Our main focus in expanding our São Paulo data center is to provide local customers with a secure, highly available hosting environment for their mission-critical applications,” said Hugo Zanon, general manager for Verizon’s Brazilian Terremark operations, in a statement.
Verizon’s acquisition of Terremark was its stepping stone into managed IT services and cloud computing, which has been gaining traction worldwide in recent years.
In late August Verizon purchased Burlington, Mass.-based CloudSwitch, a startup that raised about $15 million in 2008. CloudSwitch’s technology is similar to a technology used by Internet retail giant Amazon.com that delivers computing technology on a bit-by-bit basis, rather than forcing a customer to rent an entire server, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
In downtown Miami Terremark operates the NAP of the Americas, a 750,000 square foot facility opened in 2001 that handles that handles traffice from 148 countries, along with 13 data center in the U.S., Europe and Latin America.