Equipped to the nines

If hyperscale data centers pose a competitive threat to smaller data centers, one local operator of the latter version does not appear too worried.

Bryan Schenker, president of 5NINES Data, a local internet service provider offering colocation to dozens of customers from its 4,000 square foot data center, is among those who don’t see much overlap between big and small.

And even though it’s now part of a larger operation, 5NINES would be in the small but scrappy category.

Schenker also is the president of ResTech Services, an internet service provider for multiple tenant properties (about 20,000 apartment units in the Madison area use the service). ResTech acquired 5NINES, located in the Network222 building, at 222 W. Washington Ave., in October 2023. ResTech also acquired LiteWire, a rural wireless ISP based in Evansville, at that time. 

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