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I am delighted to announce that we have expanded our operation into Rackspace's newest state-of-the-art datacenter, ORD1. This datacenter is located in Chicago, Ill. and boasts 34,000 square feet of floor space. We are excited to provide the greater geographic diversity this datacenter allows to our customers when building out their Slice infrastructure.

Security, as with all our facilities, is rigorous―on-site 24/7 staff, alarm system, card key access, CCTV archived video. With fully redundant power supplies, multiple backup generators, hosts of Tier 1 Internet providers, and laser-based early smoke detection, ORD1 has been fitted out to maximize safety and contingency planning.

This brings our total datacenter count, as it stands, to four (STL-A, STL-B, DFW1, and ORD1).

ORD1 is now set as the default facility for all new customers. If you would like to change the default datacenter for an existing account or would like to have a slice built in a different datacenter than your current slices, please submit a ticket through the SliceManager and our support team would be happy to take care of that for you.

We are currently hiring employees in this region. So if you are a budding DC Infrastructure Tech or a Network Engineer, then be sure to check out the Rackspace careers page. Click on the Elk Grove, IL location for specific DC vacancies.

Additionally, as part of Rackspace, we are working towards our international presence. We are working hard to ensure a global offering is available utilizing our own DCs which allows for complete control and expansion for the future.

If you have any questions, please come visit with us in SliceChat