SimIS Data Center
Built for mission-critical uptime, and planned to be a good neighbor.
Redundant by design, so maintenance never means downtime. Site selection is underway on the East Coast.
SimIS delivers hosting and managed IT services that connect your operations to the markets you serve, with the reliability mission-critical work demands.
Planned the Right Way
Data centers are getting hard questions right now about power, water, noise, and land, and communities are right to ask them. We're planning ours to answer well, wherever it lands. SimIS has been part of Hampton Roads since 2007 and is headquartered in Suffolk, Virginia. Our people live in the community where we work, and we're bringing that perspective to our site search.
We're planning a right-sized facility in an established industrial area, not a sprawling campus on former farmland. It will be designed to run quietly and use water sparingly. It will also carry its own weight on the grid rather than pass costs to the community around it. Clear local rules for data centers are the right move, and we'll meet the standards of whichever community we join, because being reliable for our mission customers and being responsible to our neighbors are the same commitment.
Site Selection
We're evaluating sites along the East Coast, weighing reliable power and diverse network access first, along with proximity to the customers and operations the facility will serve. We'll share the location once a site is secured.
Wherever the facility lands, the team behind it works out of SimIS headquarters in Suffolk, Virginia, less than an hour from Norfolk's naval base and the Virginia Beach cable landings, and within a day's drive of Richmond and Washington, DC.
The Facility
The facility is designed for high availability and the high-density compute modern workloads demand. Power and cooling will have redundant delivery paths, with critical systems planned to be concurrently maintainable, so routine maintenance never takes your workloads offline. Diverse, high-bandwidth network connectivity keeps processing and disaster recovery running without interruption.
We're also designing it as something to live and work next to. A data center's neighbors experience the building, not the servers, so the choices that matter are the ordinary ones: a building scaled and finished to fit its setting, mechanical equipment placed and screened with the property line in mind, lighting aimed down at our own site instead of out at everyone else's, and the light traffic of a facility that runs with a small crew rather than shift changes.
Once it's running, the measure of good data center design is simple. You shouldn't have much reason to notice it.
Services
We host your servers and hardware, maintain the databases and code behind your applications, and run your IT operations and web hosting.
Why Now
As Northern Virginia's data center corridor runs into power and land constraints, demand is moving to well-connected secondary markets along the East Coast. This facility extends the hosting and managed IT services SimIS already delivers, backed by nearly two decades of supporting organizations with demanding security and reliability requirements.
We're talking with prospective tenants now.
Reach Out
Whether you're planning infrastructure for an upcoming requirement or comparing options for hosting and managed IT, we're glad to help. Ask about the facility, timelines and early interest, network services, or anything else your planning needs, and we'll respond quickly.
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