What Happened?
Phoenix, AZ-based Io Appointed George Slessman as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
IO delivers the data center as a service @scale™. Our internet data centers are engineered to deliver the optimal data center capacity, security, network and cloud inter-connectivity for missIOn critical applicatIOns of any scale. IO operates large data center campuses, featuring over 2 millIOn square feet, hundreds of networks and 300 MWs in North America and Singapore. For more than a decade, IO has earned the trust of the most demanding technology users by delivering the data center at scale to digital-first enterprises, cloud companies, hyperscale service providers, governments and businesses worldwide. IO was founded in 2007 by George Slessman, Bill Slessman and Anthony Wanger with the sole purpose to disrupt and revolutIOnize the data center industry. Today, that visIOn has evolved into a relentless passIOn to forever change the global data center marketplace and become the premier colocatIOn data center services provider. They continue to drive innovatIOn through thought leadership, research and development and to become the first to deliver next-generatIOn data center technologies, such as modular and compartmentalized design and comprehensive software management. Our purpose-built, software-defined service provider network not only allows us to deliver transport services between IO data centers, but also between non-IO data centers, public clouds, and customer facilities. You can scale vertically and horizontally, anytime and at the resiliency you need. IO has built an ecosystem of top industry partners who are critical to ensuring that customers have an always-on environment. Through our partner ecosystem, we offer a diverse set of solutIOns, including managed services, cloud services, professIOnal business services, migratIOn, implementatIOn and network services to ensure all your business needs are met now and as you grow.
About the Person
Mr. George D. Slessman co-founded IO Data Centers, LLC (formerly i/o Data Centers, LLC) in 2006 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Slessman is a Co-Founder of gbt Capital, LLC and serves as its Senior Managing Director. He is founder of BASELAYER, SNS, InStock, and IFX. He served as Product Architect of IO Data Centers, LLC. He co-founded Inteflux, Inc. and served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Previously, he was a Co-Managing Partner at Sterling Network Services. He along with Mr. William D. Slessman and Mr. Anthony Wanger have built and operated more than a dozen high-availability Tier 3 and Tier 4 data centers for some of the largest corporations and ecommerce sites in the world and have solved disaster recovery, business continuity, and high availability data center needs for hundreds of clients for over ten years.
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