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Timing is everything in business.
Following recent flooding throughout the Midwest, especially in Columbus, Ind., engine research and development firm Analytical Engineering, Inc. (AEI) has established a new sister company that will create a secure, high-tech data center and
25 new jobs.
Operating under the company name of Data Cave, Inc., the company will invest more than $7 million to construct a two-story 78,000-square-foot high-security data center adjacent to Analytical Engineering's facility in southern Columbus.
The new 80,000 square foot center, which will serve as an off-site secure electronic data storage center for businesses around the globe, will employ high-tech tools such as biometric hand scanner access, redundant fiber optic connectivity,
supplemental power protection and a reinforced exterior to protect customers' data from threats ranging from hackers to Mother Nature. The building sits on high ground.
The floods revealed the value of having a business continuity plan in place in case of catastrophe.
Caleb Tennis, a 2001 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology electrical engineering alumnus, is serving as Data Cave’s president.
"Data Cave is a natural expansion of many of our core competencies into a growing market," stated Tennis in a company-issued press release. "Locating this facility in Indiana adjacent to our sister company just makes sense. By doing
so, we are able to build the infrastructure of the facility at a lower cost than many other locations and have access to our current mix of highly talented professionals. Those competitive advantages, coupled with the training programs and
credits provided by the state and local community, will provide us a great pool of resources to grow this new business."
Data Cave will begin construction of the new reinforced data storage center in July and will begin hiring information technology technicians to maintain the center's servers and network infrastructure later this year.
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation offered Data Cave up to $225,000 in performance-based tax credits and up to $36,500 in training grants based on the company's job creation plans. The state will also provide the city of Columbus with
a grant of up to $50,000 to offset the cost of extending fiber optic connectivity to the site. Columbus will provide the company with property tax abatement and extend fiber optic connectivity to the new data center.
"Creating an environment that attracts new job-creating investment from Hoosier companies and from businesses around the world is essential to Indiana's economic success. Analytical Engineering's decision to start Data Cave and invest
in Indiana is an indication that the environment we have created is working," said Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.
For more information about Data Cave, visit www.thedatacave.com.
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