Data Center
Conscious Networks provides state of the art data centers, colocation, and cloud services to clients in a variety of industries and geographic regions.
Conscious Networks provides a variety of data center, colocation, and cloud services to clients in a variety of industries and geographic regions. As such, there are significant advantages to working with Conscious Networks.
Since technology is such a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, businesses are always evaluating data center, colocation, and cloud-based models. At Conscious Networks, we believe the answer is not necessarily one or the other but, perhaps a hybrid model where the data resides in the data center with forward-facing information in the cloud. This approach can provide cost benefits, enhanced backup and recovery strategies, and true ownership of data. Our holistic approach to technology, and access to a wide array of resources, allows us to recommend the best technology strategy for your business.
Recently, the Virginia Economic Development Partnership noted that Virginia hosts the largest data center market in the world and is home to more than 35% of all known hyperscale data centers worldwide. This provides us access to cutting edge technology, top talent, and economic advantages. For example, Virginia was the first state to allow the tenants of colocation data centers to receive the benefit of the sales tax exemption for qualifying computer equipment purchased by data centers in the region. Check out our FAQs below for answers to common questions.
Enhanced Data Center Services
Data centers are just a small slice of the overall technology pie. At Conscious Networks, we provide enhanced data center services such as:
Colocation
Colocation centers are sometimes referred to as “carrier hotels.” Essentially, you can rent our equipment, space, and bandwidth. It is especially useful for retail and commercial clients who may lack a strong technological infrastructure of their own.
This hardware may include your servers, racks, cabinets, and cable trays. These services generally provide the “home” for the equipment including power, backup generators, physical security, connectivity, and cooling services. In addition, this equipment may be managed, maintained, and updated by your team or the colocation provider, depending upon your circumstances. Additional services such as network monitoring, backup, end point security and other outsourced IT management services are often provided as part of a holistic solution to technology.
Internet Connectivity
Increasing your bandwidth can make a significant difference in your ability to serve your clients. So, it is essential to work with a company that can accommodate increased bandwidth speeds. Our data center is perfect for clients who have slow-running systems and need a boost to expand their business and satisfy their clients.
Infrastructure as a Service
Also referred to as IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service is a cloud computing service. It allows enterprises and companies to rent or lease our servers for their own purposes. Using rented servers can help with costs, especially overhead costs (since we house the servers at our locations.)
On-Premise Backups
Your data is backed up fast, regularly, and is easily recovered with on-premise backups.
24/7 Network Monitoring
We help ensure that your network is not only up-and-running, but well protected from the latest threats. By utilizing real-time threshold-based monitoring of critical server metrics like network connectivity, server performance, and storage performance, you can rest assured your network is operating at peak efficiency.
Colocation
Colocation provides you with tremendous flexibility for your IT infrastructure. If your business is experiencing fast or steady growth, the ability to grow your infrastructure quickly can be extremely valuable. If your business is cyclical or has dramatic spikes seasonally, these services can result in savings on IT infrastructure, costs, and resources.
While the terms data center and colocation are often used somewhat interchangeably, they are not the same thing. Colocation is a service that is provided, whereas a data center is a place or location. Colocation is just one type of service that can be provided by a technology company or data center. It is often provided as part of a larger strategy for technology equipment, data management and/or backup and recovery.
Conscious Networks has operations centers and help desks to provide quick response times and troubleshoot issues, often with a much faster response than your internal staff. This is one reason that many businesses start with colocation services and migrate some tasks, over time, to an outsourced IT model for their data center environment. In addition, the network engineers at Conscious Networks have an average of 20 years of experience with access to more technology resources, training, and best practices to ensure that your data and network are maintained at the highest level. The best news is that Conscious Networks is able to customize a solution based on your business goals and growth initiatives. This type of flexibility is invaluable and allows you to scale easily.
