Success Stories

The Challenge

One of the nation’s largest on-line jewelry retailers was outgrowing its current leased  data center environment and required holistic support from a company in the data center professional services industry.  The existing co-location facility had burdened the customer with a non-scalable cost model filled with diverse production, development and staging platforms as well as sparse documentation related to their infrastructure, software environment installation procedures and release engineering processes.     They needed help in more than one area and needed it quickly.

Vendor qualification is an important step in the selection process and can save weeks of wasted effort and project delays.  Data Centers come in many flavors…small or large, downtown or remote, Fortune 500 or individually owned.  Some focus on add-on services while others market themselves as simply “ping, power and pipe”.

“Differences of opinion” among stakeholders are fairly common when it comes to the task of choosing a new data center. Geography, availability, reliability and technology are just a few of the decision points stakeholders may prioritize differently. 

Here are a few tips from a company who engages in site selection exercises on a monthly basis.

The Challenge

A leading integrated media and commerce company, based in Massachusetts, was running its business on older Linux operating systems and legacy Solaris equipment with outdated, unsupported hardware and OS versions.  Hardware failure rates were escalating, security breaches were all too possible and the increasing costs and technology trade-offs associated with maintaining an older operating platform were too high to avoid the inevitable - an entire platform transformation.  The risk was just too high to continue operating “as is”.

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