NEW YORK STATE URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION d/b/a ...

B. D4 Capital (X249)
April 17, 2012
Ownership - The Company is privately owned.
Size - D4 has grown to over 110 employees with operations in Rochester (corporate
headquarters), Buffalo, New York City, Tampa, Orlando, Grand Rapids, Omaha, Lincoln
and San Francisco. It also has additional sales offices in Denver and San Diego. The
Company has 55 employees in New York State.
Market - The Company serves the legal and business sectors. Customers include BP,
Nvidia, Bissell, Whirlpool, Xerox, Bausch & Lomb, Kodak, Nixon Peabody, and other
corporations and law firms. Competitors include SFL Data-San Francisco, Renew Data,
DTI-Atlanta, and CDS-NY.
ESD Involvement - The Company operates nationally with locations in six states
including New York. In 2010, after purchasing and renovating a building for its
corporate headquarters, D4 searched for a location for a new data center to support its
entire operations. D4 approached ESD for assistance. ESD offered a $75,000 capital
grant, which the Company accepted in November 2010. Without assistance from ESD
and from the City of Rochester, the project was unlikely to occur in New York.
Competition - San Jose, CA.
Past ESD Support - This is the Company’s first project with ESD.
The Project:
Completion - October 2011
Activity - The Company has equipped a portion of its 11,200-square-foot building in
Rochester with a data center to allow D4 to house sensitive client data. The result will
be increased capacity and productivity, by eliminating the need to transport data to
offsite locations. Equipment includes a 10-gigabyte storage array, commercial intrusion
system, closed circuit TV, alarm system, air conditioning units and a natural gas
generator.
Results - Retain 55 existing jobs, 20 of which were at risk of relocation to another state,
and create 30 new jobs.
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