The Top Four Best Practices When Selecting a Dallas Data Center

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The Top Four Best Practices When Selecting a
Dallas Data Center
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The Top Four Best Practices When Selecting a
Dallas Data Center

• When moving to Dallas data center, business
  should follow four best practices
• Develop requirements checklist
• Choose what factors help the business best
  accomplish strategic goals
• From list developed, evaluate each colocation
  providers capabilities by comparing providers to
  determine which one best meet its needs
• Example of items needed in its requirements
  checklist
• Physical location access, climate, etc.
• Redundant power (with 100 uptime SLA)
• Power density
• Redundant cooling

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The Top Four Best Practices When Selecting a
Dallas Data Center

• When moving to Dallas data center, business
  should follow four best practices
• Develop requirements checklist
• Military grade security
• Connectivity bandwidth availability,
  site-to-site interconnection, internet exchange
• Management environmental monitoring
• High performance computing
• Cloud infrastructure
• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) assessments
• Customer satisfaction

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The Top Four Best Practices When Selecting a
Dallas Data Center

• When moving to Dallas data center, business
  should follow four best practices
• Develop requirements checklist
• Data center services
• Contracts SLAs
• Disaster recovery space
• Location office space amenities

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The Top Four Best Practices When Selecting a
Dallas Data Center

• When moving to Dallas data center, business
  should follow four best practices
• Look for customized solution
• Dallas data center should tailor its solutions
  accordingly
• The goal of every organization to find a true
  colocation partner, not just a data center to
  house equipment
• Personalized approach to the relationship
• Evaluate customer experience
• Providers must focus on total customer experience
  in addition to infrastructure and cost issues
• Colocation providers committed to customer
  experience will continually seek to improve

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The Top Four Best Practices When Selecting a
Dallas Data Center

• When moving to Dallas data center, business
  should follow four best practices
• Educate IT staff
• Transitioning to colocation provider is a complex
  project and requires expertise of IT prior to
  move
• New Dallas data center provider will offer new
  management tools, technologies, security
  policies, disaster recovery procedures, new
  protocols and routing methods, new hardware, etc.
  The more informed the staff the sooner the
  transition will be completed
• The goal is to create partnership with Dallas
  data center provider from the very first
  selection meeting

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The Top Four Best Practices When Selecting a
Dallas Data Center

• Colocation providers that operates as an
  extension of existing IT staff, the more seamless
  and successful the relationship becomes
• CyrusOne provides more than 1,000,000 square feet
  of colocated floor space in top tier data centers
  across nation
• CyrusOne serves enterprise clients in many
  industries, including energy, oil and gas,
  medical, technology, finance and consumer goods
  and services

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About the author

• Nicole Aguillard is marketing director for
  CyrusOne, a global enterprise colocation provider
  operating 24 highly secure data centers across
  the United States, London and Singapore. Learn
  more about a Dallas Data Center by visiting
  http//www.cyrusone.com/.