HOUSTON – August, 15 2016 – Data Foundry, a leading provider of premier data center colocation services, is pleased to announce its support of the Association of Information Technology Professionals’ (AITP) Houston chapter as the 2016-2017 platinum sponsor. AITP provides a platform for IT professionals to network, mentor, collaborate, grow and continue gaining knowledge in...
Data Foundry Blog: News
Data Foundry Announces New Energy Customer, Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.
Carrizo’s IT Infrastructure Migrated and Operating in Houston 2 Data Center HOUSTON — July 26, 2016 — Data Foundry, a leading provider of data center colocation and network services, announced today that Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc., a Houston-based Energy company, has completed the migration of their IT infrastructure to their Houston 2 Data Center. Carrizo is actively...
GVTC Chooses Data Foundry as Hub for Wholesale Ethernet Business Operations
AUSTIN, Texas — July 21, 2016 — GVTC Communications has selected Data Foundry’s, state-of-the-art, Texas 1 facility as an interconnection point for the company’s recently launched wholesale Ethernet business. Texas 1 will serve as a gateway for GVTC’s Ethernet network capable of transporting up to a terabyte of data enabling end-to-end Service Level Agreements and...
Data Foundry Adds Structured Cabling as a Service
Due to the superior work our infrastructure experts have done with structured cabling for our customers’ deployments, we’ve been asked to complete several cabling projects outside our data centers. The clean-cut and highly detailed work of our cabling team has lead us to launch an official Data Foundry Structured Cabling service as part of our infrastructure services. It is...
Co-CEO of Data Foundry Receives i2Coaltion Award for Internet Community Leadership
During the ceremony i2Coalition announced the award will also be named after recipient, referred to as “Ron Yokubaitis Award for Internet Community Leadership” in subsequent years AUSTIN, Texas — June 15, 2016 — Data Foundry and Golden Frog Co-CEO Ron Yokubaitis received the i2Coalition’s first Internet Community Leadership Award at the Smarter Internet Forum yesterday...
Data Foundry Co-CEO Awarded for Internet Community Leadership
Ron Yokubaitis received the Internet Infrastructure Coalition’s (i2Coalition) first award for Internet Community Leadership at the Smarter Internet Forum in Philadelphia, PA today. Ron has been a leader in the Internet sphere since 1994 when he co-founded Texas.net in San Antonio, TX. Since then, he and his wife Carolyn have gone on to establish Data...
Data Foundry CTO Defends Encryption in D.C.
Data Foundry CTO, Edward Henigin, participated as a panelist at the INCOMPAS telecommunications conference in Washington D.C. on April 12. The assembled panel of security experts sought to bring the industry’s attention to the anti-encryption debate that has sparked in Washington and around the country due to Apple’s refusal to unlock the iPhone encryption for the San...
In Spite of Record Flooding, Houston Data Centers Remain Unaffected
As many are aware, the Houston, TX area has experienced severe flooding in the past 48 hours. Some parts of Harris County received over 16 inches of rain in a 12-hour period. To put it into perspective, the normal rainfall for the Houston area in April is just 3.3 inches. As multiple buildings and homes around the city were flooded in hundreds of neighborhoods throughout...
Data Foundry files an AMICUS Brief in Support of Apple vs. FBI
Internet pioneer Data Foundry joins others in filing an amicus brief in support of Apple in their fight against the FBI AUSTIN TEXAS – March 3, 2016 Data Foundry, a leading provider of data center colocation and network services, announced today they have filed an amicus brief in the Apple versus FBI case with several companies including their sister company Golden Frog. The...
Join us at SXSW 2016
This year, Take Back Your Internet is all about backdoor encryption. Encryption has been a hot topic around the world, with a fierce debate taking place between the governments wanting backdoors into encrypted communications and the tech companies building this technology into products. Our panel will be addressing backdoor encryption, exploring why encryption is an...
Data Foundry Celebrates the Grand Opening of Houston 2
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NcwGWe3zVsw We hosted the Grand Opening Celebration of the premier Houston 2 Data Center and enjoyed a spectacular response from our customers, partners and local leaders. More than two hundred attendees shared in the festivities and toured the beautifully designed facility to see firsthand all of its unique customer amenities. The event was held...
Grand Opening Celebration for Data Foundry’s Houston 2 Data Center
Grand Opening Celebration for Data Foundry’s Houston 2 Data Center in Houston’s New Tech Corridor Houston, Texas – October 7, 2015 – Data Foundry is delighted to announce their Grand Opening Celebration of Houston 2, a 350,000 SQ. FT. purpose-built colocation data center. Multi-sport Olympian Carl Lewis, Representative Senfronia Thompson and Mayoral Candidate Sylvester...
DDoS Event at Topgolf Austin
Data Foundry is hosting an exclusive event for our colocation customers at Topgolf Austin. Come Tee-off and learn more about our Enhanced DDoS offering with our special guest speaker Carl Herberger of Radware. Data Foundry’s Enhanced DDoS Mitigation Service Includes Denial of Service Protection Intrusion Prevention System Anti-Trojan and Anti-Phishing Network Behavioral...
University of Houston Game Day Takeover and Tailgate
Did you know that the owners/operators of Data Foundry are alumni of University of Houston? Come join us for Data Foundry’s Game Day Takeover and Tailgate at University of Houston – TDECU Stadium. Invited guests will attend the college football game – U of H vs. SMU and all the pre-game festivities, including catering by Pappasito’s Cantina, cold beverages, and classic...
Data Foundry Hosting Grand Opening Celebration for Houston 2 Data Center
We are delighted to celebrate with our customers, partners, local businesses and leaders the Grand Opening of our Houston 2 Data Center. We finished construction and commissioning of the 350,000 sq ft purpose built data center on our 18-acre campus in North Houston. Houston 2 is a carrier neutral data center and provides colocation, managed services and dedicated office space...