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The Top Four Best Practices When Selecting a Dallas Data Cen

When moving to a Dallas data center, businesses should follow four best practices: develop a checklist, look for a customized solution, find a provider that places a high importance on the customer experience and educate the internal IT staff to help ensure a smooth transition. Learn more about a Dallas Data Center by visiting http://www.cyrusone.com/.

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The Top Four Best Practices When Selecting a Dallas Data Cen

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

  2. 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 provider’s 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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/.

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