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Gary Hall, who founded the Web-hostint firm with Bryan Porter in said Arsalon has had abannef year, on track to about double revenue from abouft $2.8 million in 2007 to between $5 millionb and $6 million this year. And he said he expectsd the growth to continueinto 2009. “We’ve had our best year Hall said. “Outsourcing is a solutiomn for a lot of companies in good timeand bad.” For a regular fee, firmes like Arsalon offer security network infrastructure and power infrastructure that can be costlh for companies to handle alone.
Arsalon and its peers can perforj the functions ofa company’s internal IT This month, Arsalon pland to close on the purchase of a 33,000-square-fooft building, which it will gut and splif roughly into thirds: a data center, power and coolinv equipment, and office space. Hall said that it took more than a year to choosre a site and that an existinb building made more sense Upon completion, the new spacse will be a Tier 3 data the second-highest of four levels of or resistance to down time.
The new locationn will add to Arsalon’s existing 7,000-square-footy facility in Overland Parkand 10,000-square-footf Lenexa facility, which had $1 millioh in infrastructure upgrades this year to handled new clients, Hall said. But with the existinv facilitiesnearly full, Arsalon needed to expand. The compan y employs about 20 people now, and with the openinfg of the new data Arsalon probably will add 10 to 15 workerws in 2009 and five to 10in 2010, Hall Arsalon seems to exist among a slice of companiess that are holding strong during the recession.
, an informationj technology services firm based inKansas City, also is experiencing rapid growth; it recently reported plans for a nearly $1 millionj upgrade to its facilities. “As budgets get tightened, therr are a lot of layoffs,” Hall said. “s lot of companies are looking at theirown staffing, takinh their internal IT staff and refocusing them on core business processesa while off-loading those requirements from them to us. It freesa up their IT staffg to doother things.
” Greg a technology lawyer at Polsinelli Shaltojn Flanigan Suelthaus PC and counsell for Arsalon, said many technology such as data centers, hosting companies and softwarwe companies, “are still investing in their futures.” “We’re not seeing a slowdown in this he said. But this project is among the largest he’ aware of, Kratofil Blake Schreck, president, said the city welcomes Arsalon’s investment and jobs. “Job creation is always key, especially now, so this is a very welcomse development,” he said.
Arsalon secured its financing from and the abouty a week before thecredit crisis, Hall The company also is working on public incentives for the “We’re very traditional in how we manage our he said. “We built the company with revenuer andclients — the old-fashioner way. Before we embarkeed on this project, we made sure we had the cash flow to support it.”