Alog is a data center firm that provides infrastructure services in

information technology Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...

, colocation, hosting management and

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. The firm was founded in 2005 and its head offices are located in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America ...

and

São Paulo São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...

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. Alog is part of

Equinix Equinix Inc. is an American multinational company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It specializes in internet connectivity and colocation centres, also referred to as carrier hotels. The company converted to a real estate investment t ...

, the world's largest

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group according to

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, a data center certifying firm.

History

Alog Data Centers was established in

in 2005. In 2007, the company merged with

firm .comDomínio and so was created Alog Data Centers do Brasil.

, an American data center company and Riverwood Capital, a private equity investment fund, bought 90% of Alog's capital in February 2011. Since 2011, Alog is a Tier III

certified company at the SP2 website. The standard certifies availability of infrastructure, energy and security levels. Since 2013, Alog holds the

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Green Seal certification. The certification is part of the

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program to companies that recycle waste of replaced cables. Datacenter Del Castilho was launched in 2013. It is Alog's largest datacanter located in an area of 15 thousand square meters and also the only one in the state of Rio de Janeiro to hold the Tier III certification. In the same year, Alog became a partner of

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in order to offer Microsoft's

Cloud Computing Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...

solutions. The company has also been elected by the Great Place to Work (GPTW) institute and the Brazilian Association of Human Resources (ABRH-RJ) as one of the best Information technology companies to work for. Also, the firm has been appointed as the best place to work in Rio de Janeiro since 2010. In 2013, Alog received the Competitive Strategy Innovation & Leadership award from

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, an international consulting and market intelligence firm in the category of major Brazilian Colocation company. In the same year, Alog was voted the best provider of infrastructure in Latin America by World Finance magazine and elected by the

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, a research technology firm, one of the key companies aligned with mobility, cloud and social in the Cool Vendors study. Alog is a partner of Brazilian Association of the companies of Information technology and Communication (Brasscom) since 2013. The association promotes Brazilian Information technology companies both domestically and abroad. In July 2014, Equinix acquired another 47 percent of Alog from the company's founders and Riverwood Capital, which resulted in Equinix gaining total ownership of Alog.

Workscope

Alog is a supplier of more than 1.500 companies of medium and large size working within a diverse range of businesses. Alog's structure is made of four datacenters: two in the state of

, one in

Botafogo Botafogo (local/standard alternative Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: ) is a beachfront neighborhood (''bairro'') in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a mostly upper middle class and small commerce community, and is located between the hills of M ...

and another in

Del Castilho Del Castilho is a neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many of the streets are named after impressionist artists, such as Van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressioni ...

; and two in

, the first one downtown and the second one in Tamboré. Eduardo Carvalho is Alog's president in Brazil. Charles Meyers is the global

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization. CEOs find roles in variou ...

of Equinix.

References

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