Photobucket Doubles Its Capacity at Switch and Data’s Denver Data Center

HostReview.com
Tuesday, April 24, 2007; 01:45 AM

Switch and Data, a leading provider of Internet exchange and colocation services, announced that Photobucket, the online personal media company where close to 40 million people create, manage and share their personal digital media, has increased its capacity at the Switch and Data Denver facility to continue their expansion to meet customer demand.

Photobucket utilizes Switch and Data’s power, cooling and interconnection services, and this expansion doubles its capacity for growth at the Denver facility.

“As users continue to add more digital media on Photobucket, the additional hardware requirements increase our need for space, power, cooling, and bandwidth,” said Darren Crystal, CTO and co-founder, Photobucket. “Switch and Data has been our data center partner since 2005 and their service, security and reliability made it an easy decision to expand our presence at their Denver colocation site.”

“Photobucket’s continued growth epitomizes how social networking is driving demand for digital content delivery,” said Ali Marashi, CTO for Switch and Data. “Switch and Data’s interconnection services enable companies like Photobucket to expand quickly while reliably and cost-effectively delivering content to their partners and customers.”

This Switch and Data site (one of 33 in North America) is in the heart of Denver’s Tech Center district. Combining the interconnection densities with such network providers as Cogent, Level (3), OnFiber and Qwest, companies with content to distribute and applications or services to deliver can leverage Switch and Data’s neutral marketplace to cost-effectively access multiple bandwidth providers – a strategy that reduces their reliance on costly local loops (the most common point of failure), enhances network reliability and redundancy, and boosts network performance.