Dallas Data Center

What four legged 9 week old requires onsite management and 24×7 monitoring? Dallas Data Center’s newest team member! Meet Melville, a 16.5 lbs male, black lab who is a guide dog puppy in training from Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, California.  I’m sure you are all wondering why our new team member is a dog…..  Our Marketing Assistant, Lindsey Amos, is part of the FIRST puppy raising chapter for Guide Dogs for the Blind in Texas called the Lone Star Puppy Raisers (“Like” their Facebook page).  She is one of six volunteers in the area who will be raising a guide dog puppy for the next 14-18 months.  The puppies, Melville, Miranda, Maureen, Neutron, Natura, and Nura, received a warm, Texas style welcome Thursday, July 15^th at the DFW airport. 

Lindsey will love and nurture Melville, train him to have good house manners (like not chewing on socks, getting into trash cans, jumping on furniture, etc.), teach him a variety of obedience commands, and most importantly, she will socialize him to the world.  That’s what makes this so cool because Melville gets to come to work at Dallas Data Center everyday wearing his green puppy in training coat.  In order to prepare Melville to become a successful guide dog, she will have to expose him to a variety of situations, places, and people.  He will accompany her just about everywhere such as to grocery stores, restaurants, malls, trains, planes and automobiles.  We have the pleasure of watching Melville grow for the next 14-18 months before he returns to Guide Dogs for the Blind for formal training to become a guide.

Established in 1942, Guide Dogs for the Blind provides enhanced mobility to qualified individuals through partnership with dogs whose unique skills are developed and nurtured by dedicated volunteers and a professional staff.  Services are provided to students at no cost to them, which is made possible by generous donors.

If you’re wondering how you could help, here are some options:

• Donate to Lone Star Puppy Raisers

Guide Dogs for the Blind, c/o Lone Star Puppy Raisers

5435 North Garland Avenue, Suite 140/310

Garland, TX 75040)

• Come to their fundraising events
• Visit guidedogstexas.gazelle.com and pass along those old electronics you no longer need
• Support their sponsors
• Become a puppy raiser

Melville will be at our facilities where we specialize in managed hosting, virtualization, disaster recovery and cloud computing. We operate from a state of the art facility that has been purpose-built for managed hosting, colocation, and disaster recovery, and is centrally located in Dallas, TX, just minutes away from downtown Dallas, Ft. Worth, and the DFW Airport.  If you’d like to learn more about Melville or Dallas Data Center please contact us at (972) 993-8888 or info@DallasDataCenter.com.