Immedion expands operations, bringing high quality technology jobs to Charleston region

Immedion LLC, a South Carolina-based dedicated data center and managed services provider is building its third data center in the state, here in the Charleston region, with plans to open in late spring. The third site further expands Immedion’s data center redundancy and disaster recovery offerings and allows Immedion to better serve the managed hosting needs of the southeast region. With the inclusion of the North Charleston site, Immedion has colocation facilities in South Carolina’s upstate, midlands and now the Lowcountry. The new facility is expected to bring 20 new jobs and $6 million in capital investment.

“Locating our third data center in North Charleston will better enable us to meet the growing tech needs of the coastal region” comments Immedion CEO, Frank Mobley. “There is a lot of exciting growth in Charleston and we’re confident our colocation facility will be a valuable resource for many of the current businesses located here as well as ones considering coming here. In addition, the provisioning of a third, geographically diverse location allows Immedion to provide uptime for critical technology beyond the capabilities of any single data center location.”

Located in the Palmetto Commerce Park in North Charleston, near Ladson, the Charleston County facility will be specially constructed to withstand high winds and other special conditions normally associated with coastal regions. “Our customer base is any size business with critical information technology assets located nearby,” added Mobley, “This facility will provide an ideal location for companies who want to keep these assets close by, but are in a high risk area, or have outgrown their internal capacity.”

“Information technology is a rapidly growing sector of our economy and is a key target industry in the Opportunity Next economic development strategy,” said CRDA Board Chairman R.M. Singletary. “We’re glad to see Immedion expand its footprint in the state and bring additional high quality, high paying jobs to the Charleston region.”

“We welcome Immedion to Charleston County,” said Teddie E. Pryor, Sr., Chairman of Charleston County Council. “The entry of this great company into our region strengthens Charleston’s ‘knowledge economy’ and is further proof this is a great market for business.”

“With its dual power infrastructure and fiber optics, Palmetto Commerce Park is quickly becoming known as a hub for innovative companies and data centers, and we’re thrilled to see Immedion locate to such a thriving area, said City of North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey. “North Charleston is the right choice for technology companies looking to locate, grow their business and be confident their information will be protected.”

The Charleston site will offer the same services as the Greenville and Columbia facilities with the goal of helping customers meet all of their IT Space, Server Power, Disaster Recovery, Cloud Computing, and Regulatory Compliance demands.

About Immedion
Immedion’s objective is to keep customer business-critical data and applications available 100% of the time 24x7x365. They accomplish this by coupling a world-class data center facility and a strategic array of managed services developed to deliver the highest degree of reliability at a very competitive price. Since 2007, Immedion has been delivering fully redundant power, Internet bandwidth, cooling and humidity control to the Upstate business’ IT infrastructure. Customers leverage the Immedion enterprise level data center to minimize critical computer system downtime caused by commercial power outages, Internet problems, or other system failures. Immedion is headquartered in Greenville, SC. For more information please visit immedion.com, or contact Immedion at 864.908.3000.

About the Charleston Regional Development Alliance (CRDA)
The Charleston Regional Development Alliance serves as a catalyst for long-term, sustainable economic growth in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties of South Carolina. The CRDA leads a global marketing effort to attract and retain world-class business and talent, and to facilitate the site selection process for companies considering the three-county market for competitive expansion or location investments. The CRDA drives regional competitiveness through competitive research and engages top business, academic and elected leaders in economic development. To learn more, go to charlestoneconomicdevelopment.com.