Horizon Data Center Solutions

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	Our Mission HDCS delivers access to audit-friendly, secure, enterprise level technology infrastructure and services, in the most customized, flexibile manner possible to facilitate delivery of IT services to our customers and their customers. Horizon Data Center Solutions Horizon Data Center Solutions and its subsidiaries have been providing managed services, hosting and co-location since 2000. The company began providing services to Dallas based customers out of a single data center location and quickly grew to providing full IT outsourcing and hosting services to clients across the US and internationally. As the business grew, a second data center location was added and new clients such as the Susan G. Komen Foundation, The Hunt Sports Entertainment Group (Pizza Hut Park) and the Hunt Capital Group became long time clients. In 2007, with an eye on servicing a growing co-location marketspace, Horizon Data Center Solutions entered the enterprise co-location space by adding over 35,000 square feet of Tier III data center space in Dallas. In 2008 the co-location and hosting/ITO practices were merged into a single entity, and today Horizon services include enterprise co-location for the Department of Defense, leaders in the energy, technology, education, medical and retail markets. Today Horizon has over 100 customers worldwide and four data center locations. Horizon clients represent every vertical market sector and a breadth of services from enterprise co-location to managed services and cloud computing. In 2009 Horizon received a robust round of institutional investment which it has used to serve customers via its data center and services portfolio in the Northern Virginia and Northern California markets. Our Strengths *Our people.* Experienced professionals from the data center and managed services industries, including ACS, Atos Origin, Savvis, Sungard, Mareechi, and others. *Flexibility.* We set out to create the most flexible solution in the marketplace. Our FlexSpace program allows clients to build space, contracts, services and SLAs to fit their business requirements. *Our facilities.* Our real estate is the best in the industry and we are actively growing our portfolio of data centers to service our business and government clients. *Our processes.* We adhere to ITIL and ISO process standards in order to satisfy client compliance. All our data centers are audited for SAS 70 compliance.			Filling A Gap In the Data Center Market Addressing a lack of options for outsourced data center customers is the reason Horizon was formed. Industry veterans Lance Smith and Chuck Smith both came to the same conclusion when looking at the industry: there was an opportunity to do something significantly different and provide a real choice for enterprise and SMB's alike. While there are many options in the marketplace, when you classify the many firms offering some form of IT delivery services, a gap in the breadth or depth of services offered is apparent. On one side you have a la carte hosting companies with limited or no high-end services. Think facilities-based colo firms, dedicated unmanaged hosting and managed hosting providers; there are great firms in these categories, but with each business model, there's something missing that causes customers to look elsewhere for some aspect of services or support. On the other side of the market, you find the huge global IT outsourcing firms. While they have huge scale and tremendous expertise, they struggle to be efficient with all but the very largest projects. They have a real problem executing or even engaging on small projects, no matter how mission critical. Enter Horizon. We know that the size of a project doesn't indicate its importance because in the end, it all comes down to the application running on the IT infrastructure. We know one cabinet can be mission-critical and small businesses deserve enterprise quality infrastructure and compliance-focused processes. For large enterprises, we provide the flexibility and agility desired to address small or short-term projects.

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