Thursday, November 13, 2008
TEAM Companies, an Iowa data center company, and Iowa Health System, the state’s largest integrated health system, are partnering to build a new data center in Waukee. TEAM and Iowa Health System worked with the City of Waukee, Greater Dallas County Development Alliance and Greater Des Moines Partnership on this project. Groundbreaking for the center is set for 3:30 p.m., Nov. 24, at the site on Alice’s Road, north of Hickman Road. A social gathering at Mickey’s, 50 E. Laurel St., Waukee, will follow.
TEAM Companies and Iowa Health System have joined to form TEAM Des Moines Partners LLC for the data center project. TEAM data centers are built in three phases. Iowa Health System will occupy approximately half of phase one of the state-of-the-art data center in Waukee. The remaining space of phase one will be available for use by other businesses.
The first phase of the data center is scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2009. Iowa Health System’s critical patient and employee information will be stored in both the new center in Waukee and in one of TEAM’s other data centers located in Cedar Falls, Iowa where TEAM Companies is headquartered. TEAM’s proven data storage services will ensure Iowa Health System will have two copies of all records 100 miles apart for redundancy and disaster recovery purposes.
About TEAM Companies:
TEAM Companies is one of the only companies in the Upper Midwest positioned to provide 24/7 data center management services based upon industry best practices and your regulatory requirements. They have the facilities, staff, certified processes and management tools required to assure you cost-effective, reliable data center management. Their hardworking Midwestern staff can also offer you complete, turn-key installation for your next big server, storage, cabling or network equipment upgrade.
About Iowa Health System:
Initially formed in 1995, Iowa Health System is the state’s first and largest integrated health-care system, serving one of every four patients in Iowa. Iowa Health System includes hospitals in 14 rural communities and group practices of physicians and clinics in 71 communities in Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska. Iowa Health System has one of the largest workforces in the state, with more than 19,000 employees and annual revenues of almost $2 billion. Each year, through more than 1.8 million patient visits, its hospitals and clinics cover virtually every medical specialty and provide a full range of care. Iowa Health System is the seventh largest non-Catholic health system in America.
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