ATLANTA, Dec. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a provider of high-performance hosting services, today announced the opening of its newest data center, located in Secaucus, N.J. This marks Internap's 12^th company-controlled facility nationwide and underscores its strategy to build out a footprint of premium, geographically-distributed data centers. The facility will serve customers in the New York metro area and beyond with Internap's complete portfolio of hybrid IT infrastructure services, including colocation, managed hosting and virtual and bare-metal cloud. Additionally, advanced design features will deliver maximum uptime and some of the highest power densities in the industry.   

According to 451 Research, multi-tenant data center utilization in the New York metro market is expected to reach 94 percent by 2014. The Secaucus facility will add 55,000 net-sellable square feet over time to Internap's existing data center capacity in the New York metro area, including 75 Broad Street, which is nearing full capacity.

The state-of-the-art Secaucus facility will serve customers' growing demand for diverse IT infrastructure services that can address a wide range of application and use case requirements, with high-performance, low-latency network delivery. The data center meets these complex needs with Internap's full hybrid portfolio that includes scale-out, highly-automated services, such as its virtual AgileCLOUD and bare-metal cloud AgileSERVER, as well as more customized environments like managed hosting, private cloud and colocation, all of which can be managed seamlessly through a "single pane of glass" portal. Internap's hybrid IT infrastructure is powered by its global, route-optimized Performance IP^™ connectivity with patented Managed Internet Route Optimizer^™ (MIRO) technology, which intelligently scans traffic patterns and delivers applications and content over the fastest path.

Other key features at the new Secaucus facility include:

• Advanced N+1 design with concurrent maintainability ensures maximum uptime and complete infrastructure redundancy.
• Scalable design supports power densities of up to 18kW per rack, among the highest in the industry, and allows customers to scale in place by adding power in-rack without consuming additional floor space.
• Construction includes high-efficiency UPS system, outdoor air cooling system and reclaimed building materials, in accordance with Internap's award-winning green building practices.
• Internap's PlatformConnect service, with Layer 2 VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) technology, allows for the seamless, cost-effective hybridization of its virtual and bare-metal cloud, managed hosting, colocation, storage and other infrastructure services within the Secaucus facility and between other Internap data centers.
• All IT infrastructure services are backed by a 100% uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA).
• Convenient location offers easy access to Manhattan, the N.J. Turnpike, the Secaucus Junction train station and the area's three international airports; one of the only facilities in the region that is outside the 500-year flood plain.

"IT infrastructure services are playing an increasingly powerful role in delivering a competitive advantage to Internet-centric organizations through agility, scale, performance and control," said Mike Higgins, senior vice president of data center services at Internap. "Our new Secaucus facility will empower customers across a range of industries in New York and beyond – from mobile app developers and digital advertisers to financial services and Fortune 500 companies – with high-performance, hybrid infrastructure services designed to meet their application needs throughout the complete business lifecycle."

Supporting resources:

• NY Metro Data Center microsite: http://www2.internap.com/nymetro

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About Internap
Internap helps people build and manage the world's best performing IT infrastructure. Our global footprint of data centers, patented network technology and hybrid approach to hosting solutions that blends virtual and bare-metal cloud computing, managed hosting and colocation delivers a seamless end-user experience with the lowest latency every time. With a 100% uptime guarantee and award-winning customer support, Internap has been recognized by Forbes as one of America's Most Trustworthy Companies. For more information, visit http://www.internap.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include statements related to the performance and design characteristics of our IT infrastructure services and the benefits that our customers may receive from them. Because such statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, there are important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include the actual performance of our IT infrastructure services; the reaction and behavior of customers and the market to our company; our success in moving customers from one data center to another; our ability to react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate; the availability of services from Internet network service providers or network service providers providing network access loops and local loops on favorable terms, or at all; failure of third party suppliers to deliver their products and services on favorable terms, or at all; failures in our network operations centers, data centers, network access points or computer systems; our ability to provide or improve Internet infrastructure services to our customers; and our ability to protect our intellectual property, as well as other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. We undertake no obligation to update, amend or clarify any forward-looking statement for any reason.

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