We are making great progress on our data center here in Eden Prairie. The raised floor is nearly finished, the ceiling is complete, and the generators will be installed before we know it. Earlier this week, a 90-ton crane hoisted three 30-ton cooling units onto the roof. You can see all of this and more in the video below. Enjoy!

This time lapse video shows the progress made on VISI’s new Eden Prairie data center from September 16th to November 6th. In this video you’ll see the ceiling reinforcements, installation of sheetrock, painting of the walls, sealing the floor and preparations for installing the three foot raised floor.

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If you build it will they come?  They did for Ray Kinsella in the 1989 film “Field of Dreams”.  VISI too has been building and customers have been coming.   We have invested in our St. Paul data center for several years, increasing power capacity, backup power systems, cooling, and facility space for our customers.  Thank you to all who have come.

Now VISI is embarking on a new building effort, in more ways than one.   In 2008 VISI moved our corporate offices to Eden Prairie.  This fall we started construction at that location on the inaugural phase of what will expand into a 20,000 square foot data center.  We are excited to begin work on this emerging data center for our existing and new customers.

The new facility will lay the foundation to meet the growing demand for data center space in this region by both local and national firms.  Business customers come to VISI for managed hosting services and to colocate their computers in world-class data center facilities.  Industry leaders understand that uncompromising reliability and high availability of their computer based applications are fundamental components to build their organizations and serve their customers.  VISI provides the environment and support for these systems.

Like our St. Paul data center, the Eden Prairie facility will have traditional data center features such as raised floors, climate-controlled cooling, high density power capacity and high availability power provided by UPS and diesel power generators.  This spring VISI installed our first ‘green’ flywheel UPS in St. Paul, and will be using the same technology in Eden Prairie.  A flywheel UPS essentially stores energy for use when power is interrupted. It is a clean and cost-effective alternative to battery-based UPS units.

VISI data centers offer many attractive features including world class environmental controls, multiple carrier fiber network access, high security, SAS70 Type II audited business processes, and choice locations.  These two primary facilities are 20 miles apart to meet business continuity and DR site requirements, and are on primary mass transit routes.  Both facilities are served by bus service.  The new Light Rail link to St. Paul will stop within 1 block of that VISI data center, and the proposed SW Light Rail route will stop within a block or two of our new Eden Prairie facility.

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Our newest facility will open at the end of this year.  VISI will build it.  Will you to come and see?