Blue Box brings our first East Coast data center online!

For the last twelve months, many customers have been asking Blue Box about a timeline for the implementation of an East Coast data center. Besides providing a site for DR capabilities, an East Coast data center improves our ability to serve customers throughout the United States and Europe with lower latency. As of January 16th, 2012, we are happy to announce the public availability of our new data center facility in Ashburn, VA.

The new data center is housed in the state of the art Latisys facility, just outside Washington, DC. The Latisys facility is an SAS-70 Type II certified, Tier III data center. It offers top of the line fire suppression and cooling systems, as well as redundant power providers, generator and battery backup systems. A full list of Latisys facility specifics can be found within this PDF. We are currently hiring more data center engineers for this location, and you can apply here.



What does the new location mean for our customers? It means better bandwidth throughout, lower latency, and more infrastructure options. Ashburn is a major hub of East Coast Internet connectivity. Latisys is strategically located near Amazon, Facebook, and Google data centers with a two millisecond latency between these facilities. This allows BBG customers to use Amazon services as if they were a part of the local infrastructure. The proximity to Facebook’s infrastructure reduces potential communication failures between sites for our social gaming customers. With multiple data center locations, Blue Box now provides more options for redundancy and off-site back-ups, giving customers additional ways to keep their data secure and allowing for increased disaster preparedness.

Blue Box is excited about the opportunities for better connectivity and creative infrastructure solutions the new data center opens up for our customers. It also comprises another step in our quest for world domination. Seattle, New York, Ashburn/Washington, DC, Slovenia…where will we pop up next? Stay tuned!