How to Choose a Northern California Data Center

When choosing a Northern California data center in which to colocate your enterprise’s valuable IT assets, there are several key criteria to bear in mind:

• The specific location of the Northern California data center.
• The quality of the Northern California data center facility.
• The site operations practiced by the data center provider.
• The support services offered by the data center provider.

Sacramento is the Perfect Northern California Data Center Location

If you’re looking for a Northern California data center, there’s no better location than Sacramento. Sacramento offers all the benefits of a high tech Northern California location – a highly educated engineering work force, access to multiple tier 1 internet providers, and proximity to industry leading technology partners – while at the same time being significantly less costly than the neighboring San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley in terms of real estate, utilities, and other business expenses. With its lower operating costs, a Sacramento-based data center can offer an “A+” hosting service for the same price as a “B” grade San Francisco colocation service or Silicon Valley colocation service. Parts of Sacramento also benefit from being in a California state enterprise zone, which means that tax incentives may be available for firms that do business with a Sacramento-based data center.

Sacramento is also the ideal Northern California data center location when it comes to safety from natural disasters or climate-related disruptions. Sacramento is far more seismically stable than the Bay Area region and consequently does not face the earthquake risks that face a San Francisco data center or other Bay Area data center. Also, Sacramento has mild winters and is immune from the disruptive ice storms and blizzards that can impact areas further to the east and north.

RagingWire is the Premier Northern California Data Center

Sacramento-based RagingWire Enterprise Solutions is the premier Northern California data center:

• RagingWire’s next-generation Enterprise Data Center^SM was designed and built specifically to satisfy the reliability, scalability, and security needs of data-intensive Fortune 1000 enterprise companies. This leading Northern California colocation center is driven by a state-of-the-art N+2 redundant power, climate control, and network infrastructure that delivers the “five nines” uptime that our enterprise clients demand. This “Class A+” managed data center spans 220,000ft² with power density that can scale to over 225W/ft². And when it comes to security, the Enterprise Data Center uses nothing but the best, ranging from bollards and mantrap portals, to biometric access screening, to 360 degree high def closed-circuit TV, to 24x7 monitoring by on-site security staff.
• RagingWire operates our leading Northern California data center in accordance with ITIL best practices, and we’re SAS 70 type II and ISO 17799 certified. We’re also proud to be a leader in “green” data center operations, having been repeatedly recognized for our environmentally responsible management practices.
• RagingWire’s fully certified, multi-disciplinary engineering team offers our clients a full range of managed services like data backup, server monitoring, and traffic shaping; as well as professional services like infrastructure design consulting or assistance with your Sacramento data center migration.

To learn more about what makes RagingWire Enterprise Solutions the premier Northern California data center, please visit our home page now.