Tonaquint Data Center, Inc, located on Dixie Drive in St. George, has announced the hiring of Philip Daley, formerly Lead Network Engineer for Weber State University (WSU), as the company’s Chief Technology Officer.
At WSU, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications administration and a master’s in business, Dailey was instrumental in redesigning and implementing the core network, including the data center network, which brought a much-needed increase in capacity, redundancy, and security. He was also responsible for upgrading the WSU campus wireless network, which included 400 wireless access points and over 2000 users. And he taught several IS&T classes, including “Introduction to Hardware and Operating Systems” and “Advanced Networking.”
According to company CEO, Matt Hamlin, “Dailey is a proven leader with outstanding interpersonal, communication and leadership skills. He brings to the position a solid background in setting the vision for a technical organization and building, leading, and motivating a technical staff to achieve goals and meet deadlines.”
His responsibilities at Tonaquint Data Center include providing executive leadership and direction for software development, infrastructure engineering, and data center operations functions. He is also responsible for maintaining 100% availability for business-critical systems and applications, maintaining a technological and competitive edge within the markets, and ensuring that objectives are achieved, risks are managed and development and information technology operations resources are used responsibly.
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The Tonaquint Data Center is a 28,000 square foot high-tech data facility that offers data solutions to businesses all over the globe. The facility features state-of-the-art security, 99.999 percent infrastructure reliability and is carrier neutral. Tonaquint Data Center provides a highly reliable foundation for critical business applications by keeping them secure and fully operational. The Data Center is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, providing round-the-clock access to equipment and applications. The facility opened in St. George in the fall of 2008.
