How to Choose a Bay Area Data Center

Businesses choosing a Bay Area data center to host their critical IT resources need to carefully weigh several considerations:

• Location. The logic of using a third party data center is in large part the logic of specialization: an organization devoted solely to hosting IT assets should be able to deliver the very best in terms of physical infrastructure, network access, security, and so on. This logic applies to location as well.  A fully specialized hosting organization will locate in a place ideally suited to its purposes: a location that has relatively low costs compared to the broader region that it serves; that can accommodate facility growth; and that minimizes the risks of natural disasters. When choosing a Bay Area data center, closest doesn’t mean best.
• Quality of the physical facility. Does the data center have the degree of systems redundancy, managed services, and the security safeguards necessary to deserve your trust?
• Capacity to scale. If your business spikes or grows, can the data center accommodate you?
• Caliber of service. Does the center demonstrate a top-level commitment to customer service, and is the technical staff skilled enough to deliver on that commitment?
• Financial strength. Will the center be there for you five and ten years from now?

The Best Bay Area Data Center is Outside the Bay Area

The best Bay Area data center is just outside the Bay Area, in Sacramento. A short drive away, Sacramento is the ideal location for a Northern California data center:

• Sacramento is in one of the most seismically stable areas in the West, residing on a completely different tectonic plate than the Bay Area. A Sacramento-based colocation facility is far less likely than a Bay Area colocation facility to suffer interruption from earthquakes large or small.
• Sacramento offers ample developable space to support facility growth.
• Sacramento is significantly less costly than the Bay Area, for real estate, power,and other expenses.
• Because specific areas of Sacramento are in a State enterprise tax zone, businesses that colocate with a Sacramento-based data center may be eligible for significant state tax incentives.

For these reasons, decision-makers looking for a San Francisco datacenter, a San Jose data center, or a Bay Area data center should look to Sacramento and its premier hosting service, RagingWire Enterprise Solutions.

RagingWire Offers More to Enterprises Seeking a Bay Area Data Center

Because of Sacramento’s lower costs, RagingWire is able to offer businesses seeking a Bay Area data center more bang for their colocation buck:

• Our world-class Enterprise Data Center^SM was engineered specifically to handle the demanding IT needs of Fortune 1000 enterprises. This elite facility is straight state-of-the-art, from an N+2 redundant “fix one, break one, concurrent with a utility outage”, 99.999% available power, cooling, and network infrastructure, to carrier-neutral, SONET ring-based network access, to multi-layered authentication for physical security.
• With over 220,000 square feet and power scalable to upwards of 225W/ft² , RagingWire can more than handle your short-term spikes and long-term growth.
• As former in-house IT people ourselves, we have a better understanding of customer needs than does the typical Bay Area data center, and more devotion to meeting those needs.
• Consistently profitable and with ready access to capital, RagingWire will be there with you for the long haul.

In short, being based in nearby Sacramento enables us to provide you an “A+” facility and services for rates comparable to those charged by a “B” level Bay Area data center.

To learn more about why RagingWire is your best Northern California colocation solution, please visit our home page now.