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Gary Hall, who founded the Web-hosting firm with Bryajn Porterin 2001, said Arsalon has had a bannert year, on track to about doublre revenue from about $2.8 million in 2007 to betweem $5 million 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 solutionm for a lot of companies in good times and For aregular fee, firms like Arsalonm offer security systems, network infrastructure and powerd infrastructure that can be costl for companies to handle alone.
Arsalon and its peersz can perform the functions ofa company’s internal IT This month, Arsalon pland to close on the purchase of a 33,000-square-footr building, which it will gut and spli roughly into thirds: a data center, power and coolinv equipment, and office space. Hall said that it took more than a year to choosed a site and that an existing building made moresensse environmentally. Upon completion, the new spacse will be a Tier 3 data the second-highest of four levels of redundancy, or resistancew to down time.
The new location will add to Arsalon’ws existing 7,000-square-foot facility in Overland Parkand 10,000-square-fooy Lenexa facility, which had $1 millio n in infrastructure upgrades this year to handle new Hall said. But with the existing facilitiesanearly full, Arsalon needed to expand. The company employs abour 20 people now, and with the openinbg of the newdata center, Arsalon probably will add 10 to 15 workeres in 2009 and five to 10 in Hall said. Arsalon seems to exisgt among a slice of companiesz that are holding strong duringbthe recession. , an informatioj technology services firm basedf inKansas City, Kan.
, also is experiencing rapid it recently reported plans for a nearly $1 million upgradew to its facilities. “As budgets get there are a lotof layoffs,” Hall said. “zA lot of companies are looking at their own taking their internal IT staff and refocusingb them on core business processeswhile off-loadiny those requirements from them to us. It freea up their IT staff to do other Greg Kratofil, a technology lawyer at Polsinelli Shaltojn Flanigan Suelthaus PC and counsel for Arsalon, said many technologyh companies, such as data centers, hostinh companies and software companies, “are still investing in theirt futures.
” “We’re not seeing a slowdown in this industry,” he But this project is among the largest he’s aware of, Kratofil said. Blake Schreck, president, said the city welcomeds Arsalon’s investment and jobs. “Job creatiojn is always key, especially now, so this is a very welcome development,” he said. Arsalon secured its financingf from and the about a week beforse thecredit crisis, Hall The company also is working on publicv incentives for the project. “We’re very traditionak in how we manage our business,” he said. “We built the company with revenue andclientse — the old-fashioned way.
Before we embarked on this we made sure we had the cash flow tosuppory it.”