Tape Ark Chooses Dallas

Tape Ark has chosen Dallas, TX, for its new US mass data migration center.

It reviewed several potential locations in USA and has selected Dallas, where large-scale data migration projects are underway.

Kyle Evans, chief commercial officer stated: “We looked at a range of sites across the US including Atlanta, Denver and Houston, and chose Dallas as it gives us an unfair advantage. That advantage is that Dallas is a great city, but more importantly, high-speed direct connections to the major cloud providers in Dallas are exceptional. This speed means we can migrate our customer’s data faster and more reliably to their cloud storage.“

The new Dallas operation will feature Tape Ark’s proprietary mass tape-to-cloud platform designed to migrate multi-petabyte datasets into the cloud and is an ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HITRUST, FISMA, ITAR, SOC-1, SOC-2 and SOC-3 certified facility.

Tape Ark Dallas will initially be capable of handling up to half an exabyte of tape-to-cloud data migration per annum with plans to expand the operation and connections over the next 24 months. The location also gives direct on-ramps to cloud partners with Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Backblaze and Wasabi in close proximity.

“This is the first of two new operations planned globally for Tape Ark as we grow our business in the USA, Europe and AsiaPac regions. Our major customers in M&E, energy, public sector, financial services, healthcare and resources are enjoying the benefits of rapidly migrating their highly valuable datasets and realizing new value once in the cloud,” commented Guy C. Holmes, president and CEO, Tape Ark.