Data Foundry Announces New Energy Customer, Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwired - July 26, 2016) - Data Foundry, a leading provider of data center colocation and managed network services, announced today that Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc., a Houston-based Energy company, has completed the migration of their IT infrastructure to their Houston 2 Data Center. Carrizo is actively engaged in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas from resource plays located in the United States.

Carrizo evaluated several data center operators in Houston and ultimately selected Data Foundry because of their stellar reputation for supporting customers who operate deep computing environments that require high-touch colocation services.

Greg Percival, VP and CIO of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc., said, "I saw a spirit in the Data Foundry technicians that made me realize this team of colocation experts was superior to others that I had interviewed in Houston." Percival added, "When my IT infrastructure and other gear arrived at the loading docks at Houston 2 Data Center -- they had a dedicated team ready to accelerate our move in, which helped us to ensure a seamless, efficient and secure transition."

"Our growing customer base is a testament to our experts successfully assisting customers to set up the interdependencies of their technologies and data center functions," said Shane Menking, President and CFO of Data Foundry. "We offer a customer-first culture, and our techs are trained to support functional operations of server, storage and network functions for the companies doing business with us."

ABOUT DATA FOUNDRY

Data Foundry is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas that provides data center colocation, disaster recovery and managed services for enterprise customers across a variety of industries including energy, healthcare and financial services. The company's premier data centers are supported by experienced onsite technicians, security staff and customer support 24 X 7 X 365. Founded in 1994, Data Foundry was one of the first 50 Internet Service Providers in the United States. Today, Data Foundry owns and operates purpose-built, carrier-neutral data centers in Texas and operates a global network with colocation presences for deployments worldwide. For more information, visit www.datafoundry.com or call 1.888.839.2794.