SimIS Data Center

Built in Suffolk, for Suffolk

Data centers are getting hard questions right now about power, water, noise, and land, and communities are right to ask them. We're building ours to answer well. SimIS has been headquartered in Suffolk since 2007; this facility is in our hometown, and we'll be living next to it.

We're building a right-sized facility in an established industrial park, not a sprawling campus on former farmland. We're designing it to run quietly, to draw water sparingly, and to carry its own weight on the grid rather than pass costs to the community around it. Suffolk is writing clear rules for how data centers should operate here. We think that's the right move, and we're building to meet them, because being reliable for our mission customers and being responsible to our neighbors are the same commitment.

Where We're Building

Our facility sits minutes from the region's military bases and research centers, and within easy reach of regional government offices, Richmond, and Washington, DC. For the government and defense organizations we serve, that proximity keeps your infrastructure close to the operations that depend on it.

The Facility

Our Tier 3 certified facility is engineered for high availability. Fully redundant systems, from power and cooling to high-bandwidth network architecture, keep your data processing and disaster recovery running without interruption.

We're also designing it as something to live and work next to. A data center's neighbors experience the building, not the servers, so the choices that matter are the ordinary ones: a building scaled and finished to fit its industrial park, mechanical equipment placed and screened with the property line in mind, lighting aimed down at our own site instead of out at everyone else's, and the light traffic of a facility that runs with a small crew rather than shift changes.

Once it's running, the measure of good data center design is simple. You shouldn't have much reason to notice it.

Services

We host your servers and hardware, maintain the databases and code behind your applications, and run your IT operations and web hosting.

Built for the Region It Serves

Hampton Roads has quietly become one of the best-connected places on the East Coast. Three transatlantic subsea cables land in Virginia Beach, linking the region directly to Europe and South America, with additional cables under construction, at the only landing point of its kind between New Jersey and South Carolina. A 119-mile regional fiber ring ties the five South Hampton Roads cities, Suffolk among them, into that connectivity, and our facility puts your infrastructure on the doorstep of that gateway.

Demand is moving this way too. As Northern Virginia's data center corridor runs into power and land constraints, workloads are spreading to well-connected secondary markets, and Hampton Roads pairs that shift with anchors of its own: one of the largest concentrations of military commands and federal research activity in the country. SimIS has served these customers from Suffolk for nearly two decades, and this facility extends the hosting and managed IT services we already deliver, so it opens with an established customer base rather than a speculative one.

The SimIS data center is positioned to put your infrastructure within easy reach of the military, research, and government operations that depend on it. We are pre-leasing space now for early tenants.