Finding the Right Datacenter

When selecting a datacenter to host your mission-critical IT resources, many criteria have to be considered. Of particular significance are the datacenter location, the quality of the datacenter facility, and the managed services offered by the datacenter provider.

Why Datacenter Location is Important

The ideal area for locating a datacenter is one that has a deep technical talent pool and service from multiple Tier 1 internet providers, that has low property and operating costs compared to the broader region, and that is relatively immune from natural disasters.

Sacramento, California is such a location. Sacramento is serviced by multiple Tier 1 providers and has a highly educated local workforce, but at the same offers lower real estate, utility, and other operating costs than neighboring areas such as the San Francisco Bay Area or the Silicon Valley. Lower local costs mean that a Sacramento datacenter can provide you more value for your colocation expenditure than, for example, a San Francisco datacenter or a colocation center in the Silicon Valley.

Sacramento is also relatively immune from natural disasters, when compared to the surrounding region. The Sacramento area is far more seismically stable than the Bay Area and the Silicon Valley, and consequently faces much less risk from earthquakes large or small. At the same time, Sacramento is free from the blizzards and powerline-threatening ice storms that impact western Nevada.

Sacramento’s RagingWire is the Premier California Datacenter

An elite facility and superior services make Sacramento-based RagingWire Enterprise Solutions the premier California datacenter. Our leading edge Enterprise Data Center^SM was engineered to meet and exceed the demands of our Fortune 1000 enterprise clients. “Five nines” availability is ensured by our datacenter’s state-of-the-art N+2 redundant power, climate, and network control infrastructure. Fail-safe datacenter security technologies include bollards and mantrap portals, multi-layer authentication, and high definition closed circuit television, all backed up by round-the-clock on-site security personnel.  RagingWire’s elite datacenter spans 220,000 ft², with power and cooling scalable to 225W/ft².

RagingWire is dedicated to best practice datacenter facility management. We adhere to ITIL guidances, and are ISO 17799 and SAS 70 type II compliant. We are also proud that we have been repeatedly recognized for instituting and advancing environmentally responsible datacenter management practices.

As former enterprise IT people ourselves, RagingWire has a deep understanding of the service needs of our enterprise customers. In addition to our 24x7 technical support, we offer our datacenter clients managed services such as data backup management and network monitoring, as well as professional services such as relocation and consultation on future-proofing your IT infrastructure.

To learn more about the RagingWire data center and our suite of superior services, please visit our home page now.