Wednesday, December 5, 2012
LITTLE ROCK — Windstream to open data facility in 2013
Windstream Hosted Solutions, the data-center operator for communications company Windstream Corp., plans to open a new data facility in Nashville, Tenn.
The new data center, which is set to open in 2013, will be 21,000 square feet with 45,000 square feet of raised floor space where computer servers are stored, the Little Rock-based company said Monday.
The data facilities house customer equipment and data.
Alice Hartnett, a spokesman for the company, said Windstream expects to build more data centers next year.
The company opened similar facilities in west Little Rock in April and in McLean, Va., in November.
Disaster firm plans new Arkansas office
Two emergency management and disaster response firms plan to combine by the end of the year and will have an office in Arkansas.
Washington, D.C.-based Witt Associates and California-based O’Brien’s Response Management will become Witt O’Brien’s by Dec. 21, the companies said Tuesday in a news release.
The new company will have its headquarters in Washington, D.C., and have offices in six states including Arkansas. It will also have offices in the United Kingdom and Brazil.
“This transaction strengthens the combined company’s crisis and emergency preparedness, management and response services in the United States and around the globe,” said James Lee Witt, founder of Witt Associates, in a prepared statement. “Our combined clients will have access to the leading crisis and emergency management company.”
Witt, who was appointed director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in 1993 by former President Bill Clinton, will become executive chairman of the new company.
Tim O’Leary, spokesman for O’Brien’s Response Management, said he doesn’t think there will be layoffs when the companies combine.
Two truckers slip,
index falls by 0.54
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, fell 0.54 to 245.18 Tuesday.
“Arkansas issues were skewed to the downside with declining stocks leading advancing by just over 2 to 1,” said Bob Williams, senior vice president and managing director of Delta Trust Investments Inc. in Little Rock.
Arkansas Best gained almost 1.7 percent while P.A.M. Transportation and USA Truck dropped 2.4 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
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