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Cloud Price Ranges
March 22, 2011
Cloud Pricing Ranges And Cloud Hosting Options
There are several Cloud Hosting Options Available
Public Cloud Hosting And Pricing
This is a shared cloud hosting infrastructure. It provides flexibility, a cost effective solution and scalability. Most companies use this for test environments, short term projects or dev environments or web hosting. You can control the VM’s and scale your cloud infrastructure when you need it and on-demand.
Prices range in the $40 to$300 per month range depending on the number of CPUs, the amount of RAM, Storage and bandwidth.
This usually comes in a variety of operating systems like Linux, CentOS or Windows. Security preference is on secure VLANs and router firewalls (more…)
Cloud Hosting
March 22, 2011
Cloud Hosting Choices
How To Select A Cloud Hosting Platform – SaaS, IaaS, PaaS
While cloud hosting is still in its beginning stages, cloud hosting has grown rapidly. Several hosting options are available depending on your requirements. Cloud hosting can provide the following benefits:
- Cost Savings – Cloud hosting can avoid CapEx (capital expenses) costs and reduce total IT operating costs by up to 50% while shifting to an OPEX (operating expense) model.
- Reliability – Ensure dependability with Service Level Agreements of 99.95% plus.
- Scalable – Offers scalability with on-demand services.
- Fully Managed – IT simplification for your staff.
- Predictable Pricing – Increased ROI with predictable monthly billing.
- Lower Risks – Multiple layers of data protection with security and application availability.
Understanding Cloud Service Terminology (more…)
Phoenix Colocation Las Vegas Colocation
March 9, 2011
PHOENIX COLOCATION AND LAS VEGAS COLOCATION WAS HOT. NOW IT’S NOT… WHY?
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR PHOENIX COLOCATION SPACE AND LAS VEGAS COLOCATION CAGE SPACE?
When large west coast companies, in areas like California, discuss colocation for their primary data center or disaster recovery site, the discussion always revolves around which is the best city for colocation or building a data center. That is a very challenging conversation in today’s data center space and pricing wars. You often read that colocation space is shrinking fast and that the supply is dwindling. NOT TRUE! Well, maybe it’s true for a few major metropolitan areas. All you have to do is subscribe to various blogs to know there are 100’s of thousands of square feet of data center space available and several 100’s of thousands of square feet of data space coming on line at this moment. Some people feel that colocation space could experience similar overbuilding like the residential and commercial real estate.
PHOENIX COLOCATION AND LAS VEGAS SITE EVALUATION AND COMPETITION
Companies like to discuss where the lowest incidence of natural disasters are, what are the power rates in the state and what fiber carriers are in the data center? After an in-debt evaluation, many indicators for California companies pointed to Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada particularly for the relatively low incidence of natural disasters and proximity to California large cities. Actually there are many other locations that have cooler temperature environments to place a data center than Phoenix or Las Vegas. While you cannot deny the success of those locations, companies should consider alternatives as well. Eventually the conversation always comes back to…. PRICE. It is common to hear “I know it has a low incidence of disasters and low power costs but why is the price still high?” The new component to consider is COMPETITION for colocation space. Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada data centers have experienced fast growth in the low cost colocation market due to their proximity to large markets like California. Now, their rates have inched higher and higher to maximize profitability as their facilities start to fill. In some cases, the rates for Phoenix colocation or Las Vegas colocation are actually climbing higher than in some areas of California. Competition for data center space in other states with equal or better environments have lowered their colocation rates to compete with the media hype of Phoenix colocation and Las Vegas Colocation. Rates can be 10 to 20% lower than Phoenix or Las Vegas. The message here is keep looking for colocation space in other places. (more…)
Digital Realty Trust
August 26, 2010
Digital Realty Trust Continues Acquisition Process
Digital Realty Trust
This week DRT (Digital Realty Trust), a Real Estate Investment Trust, announced the completion of two acquisitions; one in California and the other in Texas. The total purchase price was $50.3 Million.
Digital Realty Trust continues to move toward acquisitions that include existing tenants. Typically, they build and develop quality sites for large clients and data center operators.
The California property is located at 2950 Zanker Road, San Jose, California. The property is approximately 69,700 rentable square feet. the Texas property is located in Richardson, Texas. It has approximately 56,000 rentable square feet. Both properties are leased to telecommunications companies.
About DataCenterAndColocation: www.DataCenterAndColocation.com Our data center 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.
Twitter and Facebook Data Center
May 12, 2010
Twitter and Facebook Announce Major Strategic Data Center Moves
Facebook moves Data Center to Prineville
Facebook is growing at a very rapid rate. It has become the 12th largest site on the Internet. Its traffic has grown 725 percent from 2008 to 1,358 in 2009. In the past, Facebook has leased space from wholesale data centers like DuPont Fabros Technologies, Fortune Data Centers and Digital Realty Trust. Now Facebook is in the process of opening its new facility in Prineville, Oregon. The estimated cost is somewhere around $180 to 215 Million dollars on the 147,000-square-foot facility. It selected Prineville, Oregon for several reasons including low power cost. Prineville is in one of the state’s long term rural enterprise zones. This makes it exempt from local property taxes during its construction period and could fully exempt the data center for up to 15 years after the sites is (more…)