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How To Choose A Data Center Facility
February 6, 2012
How To Choose A Data Center Location
How to Select a Colocation Facility
Here are some preliminary things to consider while selecting a data center colocation facility. This article provides the basic knowledge necessary to make a well-informed decision about where to locate your colocation equipment in a data center. If your IT operations space is insufficient, evaluation and planning is critical to continuing continuity and disaster recovery of your business.
1. Determine Your Data Center Requirements and Colocation Budget Requirements
How redundant is the data center, not including server, networking and mounting hardware, cables, and labor? System down time is also costly.
Labor and parts fees required to set up the space are expensive. Recurring expenses include the cost of space, staffing, power; cooling, maintenance contracts, Internet bandwidth and cross connect fees to ISPs (Internet Service Provider) or NSPs (Network Service Provider). Redundancy equals higher expense but can be critical. While price isn’t always the deciding factor, the up-time of your colocation space is!
2. Data Center Security
First, consider physical security. The SANS Institute review issued a checklist located at www.sans.org. Other assessments include site location, perimeter, computer room access, facilities, users and disaster recovery.
Some businesses are accountable to compliances such as HIPPA, PCI or Sarbanes-Oxley. Ensure data center provider’s willingness to allow auditors escorted access as required, to verify controls are in place.
Security is paramount. Review considered company’s SANS checklist. Choose one with SSAE 16 (SAS70) certification to ensure meeting compliance objectives. Always review the last audit conducted at the data center to evaluate their performance.
3. Determine Space and Power Requirements For Colocation Space
Review your computer and network infrastructure. Determine the unit rack size, the power type (AC or DC) and the operational voltage / amperage required for each device. Providers offer space in 1/3, 1/2, or full racks, and cage space to accommodate multiple (more…)
Loma Linda University Medical Center Selects DataCenterAndColocation
January 24, 2012
DataCenterAndColocation Selected by Loma Linda University Medical Center For Colocation Consulting Services
San Diego Colocation Consultant Selected
DataCenterAndColocation announced today C7 Data Centers (C7) has been selected to provide data center colocation services to Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC). This multi-year service contract was awarded following an extensive national evaluation and selection process involving multiple data center service providers by DataCenterAndColocation, a San Diego based colocation consulting company.
World-renowned, Loma Linda University Medical Center is home to some of the nation’s largest clinical programs, providing Whole Person Care for more than 33,000 inpatients and for .75 million outpatients annually. LLUMC was recently listed as a leader in ten adult specialty services by U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals Rankings.
“Loma Linda University Medical Center chose C7 based on multiple factors and the responses from a comprehensive RFP generated by our colocation consulting company”, said John Giaquinta, President of DataCenterAndColocation.
Arizona Colocation Data Centers
September 12, 2011
Arizona Colocation and Data Centers
Competition Grows in Arizona Data Center Space With CyrusOne Expansion
CyrusOne, a subsidiary of Cincinnati Bell, has purchased 40 acres of land in Arizona to build a new data center. The new site will be located in Chandler, Arizona and plans to build a new 1 million square foot data center. CyrusOne paid $12,500,000.00 for the new data center site to Capital Commercial Investments. When the project is fully built out, it will be the largest data center in Arizona providing major competition to companies like io Data for large corporate clients and the 24 acre 293,000 square foot data center owned by San Francisco-based Digital Realty Trust at 2121 S. Price Road.
The CyrusOne site will be built in several phases. They plan to start construction on the Chandler data center next year. The first phase will be 350,000 square feet and should be completed in the beginning part of 2013. CyrusOne will address large corporate users in the energy, oil and gas, medical, technology, finance and consumer goods and services sector.
CyrusOne currently operates more than 600,000 square feet of colocation space. They have data center space in Houston, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Cincinnati and London. Chandler will represent a significant expansion of their overall colocation footprint.
About DataCenterAndColocation: http://www.datacenterandcolocation.com/ Our data center and colocation consulting company, located in San Diego California, represents approximately 3000 data centers and colocation centers across the US. At no cost to our clients, we identify specific space, power and security requirements, solicit proposals, professionally analyze them, compare the strengths and weaknesses, negotiate pricing and deliver highly competitive bids for colocation. Whether you are moving your existing colocation site, adding data center sites or establish a disaster recover site, our service is your best solution to reduce costs and free employee valuable time. Our specialty is identifying very high quality and low power cost data centers.
Hosting Con 2011
July 27, 2011
Hosting Con 2011
DataCenterAndColocation and DSA Encore cordially invite you to attend a Private Networking Party at the Hosting Con 2011 Convention at the Hilton San Diego Bay Front Hotel on Monday, August 8, 2011 at 8PM. DataCenterAndColocation provides colocation site selection consulting services and DSA Encore delivers data center design build solutions to major corporations and data center providers.
PLEASE JOIN US AT HOSTING CON 2011
RSVP to Gabriel Crawford or John Giaquinta at www.dsaencore.com/NetworkingParty/ if you plan to attend.
Data Storage Data Replication Hardware
May 26, 2011
Data Storage And Data Replication Hardware Solutions
Data Storage
With data storage hardware needs growing at an astounding rate in colocation facilities and in-house data center facilities, many organizations are considering network storage solutions and data replication as a way to simplify data management, increase network availability, and decrease storage costs. Implementing the solution, however, may seem like a daunting task. Knowing which components are right for a particular environment and installing them correctly are essential to successful implementation. How do you know which ones to choose?
Are all your storage requirements covered?
Quantum Tape Library
- Primary
- Secondary
- Archive
- Disaster Recovery
- Backup (more…)