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"Inflow has committed to using Dublin as a hub for its European expansion following IDA approval for the centre," said Joe O'Keeffe, managing director at Inflow Ireland.
The company also officially opened its USD12 million data centre in Dublin that will be used to service both US clients in Europe and new European clients.
"We aim to have the data centre cash flow positive within 12 months and it is a realistic target," O'Toole said.
"We set up the data in Europe in response to demand from our existing clients who wanted to expand into Europe," he said.
Inflow's first new customers here include KPN-Qwest, the global internet backbone company; ISIS the Tullamore-based Web hosting company; and Emedia, an Irish Web development and B2B company.
O'Toole said KPN-Qwest will use the data centre as its infrastructural hub for Europe, and he said it was "a significant win for Inflow."
Inflow provides three layers of infrastructure and services. The company provides co-location facilities and other basic services, managed network services, and other solution such as firewalls and storage.
He said the difference between Inflow and its competitors is that it guarantees 100 percent connectivity to customers as well as high levels of technical support to its clients.
Each client company is connected to the Internet by Inflow with two different lines. Their traffic is routed through a 3.2GB line which flows through three different ISPs and three different local loops to guarantee a reliable service with no outages to customers.
O'Toole said the company was the second biggest, in terms of numbers of Internet data centres in the world and has over 450 clients.
He said Dublin was chosen after a study of a variety of European locations.
"Ireland was considered the prime location given the fibre infrastructure, Internet availability, highly trained labour pool and the growing community of e-commerce business," O'Toole said.
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