What Makes a Great Datacenter Facility?

Partnering with the right datacenter facility can bring big rewards to a data-intensive business, including capital expenditure savings, stepped up time to market on new services and products, and increased resilience in data storage infrastructure. How do you zero in on just the right datacenter facility for your hosting needs?

Location, Location

To a large extent, the logic of using a third party datacenter facility for IT infrastructure hosting is the logic of specialization. Ideally this logic should extend to geographic location as well – a great datacenter facility should be in a place that’s perfectly suited to datacenter development and operations. Sacramento, California – the home of leading datacenter hosting provider RagingWire Enterprise Solutions – is such a place. Sacramento offers all the high tech infrastructure and partnering opportunities of Northern California, but with lower real estate and business costs than the neighboring San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. And without the earthquake risks, since inland Sacramento is on a different and much more stable tectonic plate than the California coast. A Sacramento datacenter can consequently offer better value for price, with much lower risk of natural hazard, than a San Francisco datacenter or Silicon Valley colocation facilities.

Redundancy, Just in Case

From a client’s perspective, a datacenter facility can’t have too much redundancy. RagingWire delivers not just N+1 but N+2 redundancy across all critical systems, including industrial diesel-powered generators, uninterruptible power supplies, and computer controlled cooling and humidification systems. Our premier California datacenter is carrier neutral, and each of our many Tier 1 internet providers enters the datacenter facility via diverse-path, dual-entry fiber directly on SONET rings to ensure highly available, fault tolerant service.

Secure, for Sure

Security – of your gear and your data – is at the top of the check-list when sizing up colocation hosting facilities. RagingWire buckles in your IT resources with nothing but the latest and greatest safeguarding technologies, including biometric screening, fully archived 360° high def CCTV, cage alarms, and leading edge network intrusion detection systems – all backed up by 24x7 on-site security staff. Our datacenter facility operations are SAS 70 Type II and ISO 17799 certified, for optimal information security.

Great Professional Services Seal the Deal

RagingWire’s datacenter facility leadership is stocked with veterans of in-house corporate data centers, so we know your needs well and are committed to anticipating and meeting them. Our multi-disciplined engineering team can deliver a wide range of high caliber professional services, from relocation support to consultation on critical IT concerns like future-proof infrastructure design, regulatory compliance, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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