Non-Stop Internet, Non-Stop Support, Non-Stop People™. When Internet Specialties West, Inc. (ISWest) was founded in 1996 by Drew Kaplan and Robert Johnson in Westlake Village, California, little did they know their company would also be growing Non-Stop. When it began, the company occupied 1,400 square feet of office space and offered a variety of Internet services, including Dialup, Web Hosting, Email, Frame Relay, T1, DSL connectivity and server colocation.
- In June 2001, the company moved to Agoura Hills, California in a 10,000 square-foot facility, located along the 101 freeway near the border of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. This facility contained ISWest's Data Center designed for customer's equipment and a separate Network Operations Center (NOC), housing all of ISWest's administrative support and sales operations.
- Just as the company grew with the new location, so did its service offerings. ISWest added a full line of virtual services to complement its various web hosting and email plans to accommodate their customer's needs and growing demands. Unprecedented reliable and professional services included spam filtering, web statistics, database hosting, VPN, Firewall, Content Filtering, router rental, backups and more. Additionally, the company provided significant amounts of bandwidth to support its growing base of customers. The increased bandwidth capacity has allowed ISWest to not only continue selling business DSL and T1 connections but even larger Internet connections, including DS3 and Gigabit.
- Today, the esteemed business is one of the fastest growing technology companies in Los Angeles and Ventura County, receiving over five consecutive years of awards as one of Deloitte's listed 50 fastest growing technology firms, and fastest growing private companies by both Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley Business Journals. ISWest was recently honored in Inc.'s 2008 annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the country and in the Top 600 businesses in the California for the 2nd year in a row. With continuous company milestones, ISWest consciously stays ahead of the curve with cutting-edge technology and ground-breaking business solutions. Reaching almost 100% occupancy of their original Data Center prompted ISWest to grow even more with the building of a second facility which celebrated its Grand Opening in February 2008. This brand new 16,500 square foot facility features a state-of-the-art data center and administrative sales and support staff all in one beautiful streamlined and efficient location. The Agoura Hills-based operation is enhanced with 6,000 additional feet of raised floor, to complete the expansion to a total of 10,000 square feet of raised floor Data Center space.
ISWest was able to benchmark their 12th year of dependable support and service with incredible response from businesses to the new facility. Now featuring the most-technologically advanced data center in Southern California, the Data Center is already 30% sold out. Recognized for its ‘green' initiatives, this environmentally-conscious new corporate headquarters, currently houses sales, operations and administration staff in a uniquely designed 24/7/365 Pro-active Support System. Equipped with the latest innovations in the delivery of power and network services, customer security, and redundancy insure customers are always up and running, Non-stop. Customers have come to rely on this around-the-clock premium customer service, ISWest has become famous for.
Increasing momentum with this upward spiraling growth, ISWest is keeping Southern California businesses armed with the important solutions they need such as online back up, disaster recovery, WAN Acceleration products and continuing their first-rate reliable customer service and support. ISWest is not only excited about the future but have extensive plans to create new history, by expanding their quality service their customers have come to know and rave about. A conveniently located full-service third data center is currently in the works to provide even more of that Non-Stop ISWest award-winning service. |