Colocation America Inc.

4U Colocation | 4U Server Colocation

Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 -0800

For mid size companies or companies that are starting to expand, Colocation America offers a 4U colocation hosting plan to suit any growing companies' hosting needs. Hosting with Colocation America will ensure that your server is stored in a state of the art environment and has unrivaled connectivity. 4U colocation gives companies room to expand their network infrastructure by giving the company enough hosting space for four units of server space.

Hosting with a Premier Data Center

When you host your server with Colocation America, your server will be placed in a controlled and monitored environment. Our world class hosting facilities are built to provide your servers with the power, cooling, and connectivity it needs to run at its peak performance. Contracted with several world-class ISP's, our facilities will keep your server on a stable connection. Colocation America has a 100% uptime guarantee to ensure that you will always have access to your server at all times.
Benefits of hosting with Colocation America include:

24/7/365 access to your server in any of our secure data centers
Uninterrupted power supply (UPS) and backup generators
Premium connectivity with 240 Tier 1 internet bandwidth providers
Knowledgeable technicians and remote hand services
Monitored security system and biometric scans

Why Collocate with a 4U plan?

Colocation of your servers will help reduce the IT cost for your company. Opting for a 4U colocation hosting plan is a great alternative to establishing an in-house IT infrastructure. It can be quite costly to hire an entire IT staff to handle your server equipment, especially if you only have four servers that requires support. Hosting in-house will also run the risk of your server being down during power outages or natural disasters. Colocation will place your web servers in the hand of trained technicians that will monitor your serverâs performance and help you deal with any server issues.

Server Space for your Growing Needs

A 4U colocation hosting plan gives you enough space to utilize up to four hard drives for your companyâs server. Growing businesses or any businesses that need to store a lot of data can benefit from a 4U colocation hosting plan. It is the next best thing to a quarter rack hosting plan, making it a great alternative for companies that need more space but do not have 5-10 servers at their disposal.

By hosting your servers together, you will save on the bandwidth, power, and storage space fees. Those in the e-commerce industry can especially benefit from the added storage space. It also serves as an investment for their company in case they start receiving a massive amount of orders and need to store new customers' data.

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One Wilshire Colocation

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0800

When deciding a location for colocation in Los Angeles, the 656,300 square-foot One Wilshire Building in the heart of downtown Los Angeles should be on the top of everyoneâs list. The One Wilshire building was erected in 1966 and has been renovated over the years to accommodate the particular needs of its telecommunications clients. One Wilshire houses the world's most densely populated Meet-Me-Room, in which hundreds of internet service providers (ISPs) connect their networks to one another's. As the premier communication center for co-location in the Western United States, the building offers an abundant amount of protection amenities to safeguard their clientsâ property such as back-up power generation with ample fuel supply, high capacity air-conditioning units for adequate cooling, and 24/7 on-site security.

One Wilshire Data Center Specifications

Primary Power: One Wilshire's current electrical service consists of four 3750 KVA, 480 volt transformers and a 5000 KVA, 4160 transformer, all powered by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The system is able to provide each tenant with 100 watts per square foot.
Emergency Power: Currently, there are five 2000 kW generators, which supports the tenants' primary electrical source in the incident of a power outage or low voltage situation. Back-up generator power is dispersed to tenants through numerous 480V, 3 phase, 4 wire bus ducts.
Fuel Storage: One Wilshire has roughly 20,000 gallons of diesel fuel in storage and containment. There is enough fuel to power the back-up systems up to 48 hours at full load.
Fire Protection: The structure is safeguarded by a state-of-the-art fire life safety system. All tenant systems are tied to the main fire safety system, which is supported by an automatic switch to one of the back-up power generators.
Security: The building is protected around the clock by a fully-trained security staff with the aid of a closed circuit television (CCTV) monitoring and surveillance system. Entrance throughout the building is controlled by electronically-controlled access cards for personnel verification.
Elevator Access to the upper levels consists of six elevators serving the lower levels (1-19) and five serving the upper levels (20-30). Additionally, there are 2 freight elevators to accommodate loftier objects.
Parking: Under the building is the parking lot with roughly 500 parking spaces. A loading dock is available to tenants for delivery on the south side of the building on the surface level.

One Wilshire Colo Services

At Colocation America, our One Wilshire colocation facility operates over 10,000 square feet of space and offers the highest quality of service with the flexibility to help businesses connect and expand. Our One Wilshire colocation offers ample space allowing clients to choose from 1U servers to multiple full server racks . Our racks are secured by locking cabinets and cages. Our service is backed up with a 100% uptime guarantee. Our equipment at One Wilshire has the capacity to supply the customers with their bandwidth needs.

Colocation America offers four other Southern California locations for your Los Angeles server hosting needs:

Aon Center: 707 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90017
Digital Realty Trust: 624 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90017
Quinby Building: 650 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90017
Telecom Center: 530 W. 6th St. Los Angeles, CA 90014

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Managed Colocation

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Colocation America provides quality managed colocation services for clients that do not want to deal with the hassle of managing their own servers. We have a proven track record of maintaining the highest quality servers for many of our clients. With an extensive list of clienteles, some of which are well establish companies, we know exactly what our clientsâ needs and demands are when it comes to server management. Having a managed colocation plan will allow our clients to rest easy knowing that a team of experience IT engineers are handling their servers to make sure that it is up to date and running efficiently.

Fully customize your servers by letting us know what your business plans are. We can load up your server with all the necessary software, tools, applications, and security updates to tailor to your specific needs. Ensure that your server can perfectly handle your business needs and perform to your standards at an affordable price. Whatever your goals and budget are, we have a managed colocation plan that is right for you.

An Affordable Solution for Many Businesses

New and established companies are starting to see the advantage of managed colocation because it provides quality services at a great price. Managed colocation allows companies to not only rent out a server from a colocation provider, but rent out an IT team as well. Save on spending hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars on top of the line servers by renting one of Colocation Americaâs quality web servers. We can provide you with the hardware necessary for your company to achieve its business goals at a fraction of the cost.

Employing your own dedicated IT staff to handle your server needs can eat up a sizeable amount of any businessesâ revenues. Why take the risk of employing someone else when we have a team of experience IT engineers ready to handle and maintain your servers for you. Save on the maintenance expense of your server with a managed colocation plan from Colocation America. See how easy and cost efficient it is to have a fully optimized server set up to help you achieve your business goals.

Run Your Business Not Your Server

Server problems can be an extremely tough task to deal with and without someone with loads of server handling experience your server could be down for quite some time. Server downtime can be critical since it will severely cripple your business since you will no longer have remote access to your server. Stop spending valuable company resources on keeping your server running efficiently. Let us worry about keeping your server up to date so that you can focus on more pressing companyâs issues. Say goodbye to long hours spent trying to troubleshoot server problems and be assured that your servers are in the experience hands of our well trained staff of IT experts.

Quarter Rack Colocation - 1/4 cabinet colocation

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Colocation America provides quarter rack colocation packages to clients that are looking for approximately 10U of server space but do not want the higher monthly cost of our half rack colocation packages. With a quarter rack plan from Colocation America, you can have up to approximately 10U of servers hosting space along with 10Mbps of our premium bandwidth and 10 power outlets.

Colocation Americaâs quarter rack packages come with enough space to host up to 10U of servers in a stable and secure environment. Hosting with Colocation America ensures that your servers will be securely kept in our industry leading colocation data centers in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, New York and New Jersey. At Colocation America we invest heavily to obtain optimal equipment necessary to have a world-class colocation facility. From redundant power supply backup generators to multiple layers of virtual and physical security you will be provided with a suitable environment for your servers to operate effectively. 24/7 access to our data centers is provided to our customers to have the flexibility to enter our data centers to configure, troubleshoot and install additional components and software to their infrastructure.

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Benefits of a 10U Rackspace

Our quarter rack clients will also benefit from our extensive network of more than 240 top tier internet bandwidth carriers, allowing you the ability to select the best colocation services to suit all your business needs. Colocation America has the capacity to provide our clients with several different packages giving you the flexibility to pick and choose which options would be better suited for your business needs. We can provide you with a package tailored specifically to your business requirements and specifications.

Features of Our Quarter Rack Colocation Hosting Service Package:

    -24/7 access to our premier data centers, weekend and holidays included
    -Redundant power supply and backup generators
    -Multi-layered secure environment in both the physical data center and our virtual network
    -Remote hands service available with our expert IT engineers

Hosting with a Premier Colocation Hosting Company

Colocation America has years of colocation hosting experience and provides colocation hosting services to several fortune 500 and fortune 1000 companies. Years of experience has allowed Colocation America to provide you the best service in the industry all at a competitive price. Our clients can expect excellent technical support services from our staff of highly trained engineers. Hosting with Colocation America means having the benefits of our world-class data center which will provide your server with premier high speed internet connections, high bandwidth allocation, 24/7/365 security and an ideal environment to host your server and maintain your infrastructure.

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1U Server Colocation | 2U Server Colocation

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Colocation America offers 1U Colocation and 2U colocation plans for all our data centers nationwide. We can provide you with a safe and reliable environment for your storage needs. Better yet, we offer some of the industry's most competitive prices on all of our colocation hosting racks.

One Wilshire Colocation Facility

Our One Wilshire Colo Facility in downtown Los Angeles is designed with cutting edge electrical features and ample cooling systems to ensure the superb performance for your 1U colocation server. The facility is manned 24/7 by trained security staff and requires the use of electronic cards to make sure that only authorized personnel can gain entry to the building. In addition, your servers are locked insecure racks and monitored by a network of closed security TV cameras for an extra layer of protection.

Complementing our One Wilshire location is our American Telecom Center,which offers unparalleled connectivity to the Pacific Rim. Through the biometric palm scan authentication, 24/7/365 manned security, redundant UPS and diesel generators,along with in-depth environmental controls, it's no wonder why our American Telecom data center is considered the fastest, most reliable service for clients connecting to East Asia.

Our 7th Street Los Angeles mission-critical data center features 450,000 square feet of space, and with our comprehensive HVAC and electrical infrastructure, along with our prominent telecom network access, this data center is considered one of the most prominent facilities in the western United States for your 1U server.

Colocation America Data Centers

In addition to our AON building facility, our Quinby Building data center in Los Angeles proudly connects into the One Wilshire, offering premier connectivity to the ISP's in the world with 150% of maximum air conditioning capacity, along with backup diesel generators and a 24/7/365 manned operation, the Quinby data center continues to offer superior services to our clients.
With our five locations in Los Angeles, as well as ones in San Francisco, Chicago, New Jersey and New York, Colocation America is more than ready to serve your 1U and 2U server needs.

A Colocation Hosting Service You Can Count On

Colocation America is a name you can trust with your web traffic and sensitive business data. When storing your servers in our facility, you are placing them in the hands of a reputable organization equipped with the knowledge, resources, tools, network scalability, and financial stability needed to remain competitive in a fast growing market segment.

Complete Control and Unwavering Managed Support

As a 1U colocation customer, you receive 24/7 access to our colocation facility, thus allowing you to manage your server as you see fit. We also offer fully managed colocation hosting services for customers that need assistance maintaining their systems. You have the luxury to choose exactly what level of management we provide, customizing a package designed to meet your exact requirements.

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Colocation Server Hosting

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Average webmasters who thrive in the competitive markets of the eCommerce business usually progress from having a shared hosting plan to leasing a dedicated server from a reputable hosting provider. Few however go on to the corporate levels of the eCommerce business and start to own and operate their own servers. Colocation is the answer to those that achieved a thriving eCommerce business but still deal with slow page load and down time. With the increase in traffic to their ever expanding website, webmaster searching for a way to improve the performance of their websites often look towards colocation services to solve their web hosting problems.

Buying a web server alone will set you back a thousand dollars not to mention the cost of keep the server up the date and running efficiently. A colocation hosting plan can solve monetary hosting issues while letting another company handle all the maintenance and troubleshooting problems that come with operating your own web server. Colocation America can provide a company with all the equipment necessary for optimal web server to performance while preventing any hardware failure. With colocation facilities in 22 locations across the United States, Colocation America can provide companies with a premier data center environment at a location close to targeted markets. Data centers are secure facilities equipped with high tech security measures including 24/7 surveillance and advance fire prevention system. Servers that are stored inside a data center benefit from a controlled environment at the optimal temperature to ensure that it always perform smoothly. Technical support staff are on call 24/7 and offer knowledgeable troubleshooting information in the unlikely event of a server downtime or any other server problems.

Free Setup for your Server

Setting up a server with us is easy, just tell us the kind of server configurations your company needs and we will assist you towards your company's goals. Regardless of how many web servers or type of web servers you might own we offer several flexible plans that can be tailored to your company's needs. You will be able to fully customize your server configuration to your specific needs with no effort on your part just by giving us a call. We can store just one server, half rack, full rack or even offer your company their own private data centers from any of our 22 data center locations across the country.

Safe and Secure Servers

Storing your web server with Colocation America can guaranteed that your web server will be running 100% of the time. We have a 100% uptime guaranteed to prove that when we say your server will be up 100% of the time, we mean it. We utilize several high speed internet connections from several top service providers to make sure that our customers will always have a constant connection. Our experience staff members are always there to make sure that you stay connected and up. With state of the art facilities you no longer have to worry about blackouts or any other natural disasters crashing your server and losing precious data. A constant power supply keeps the facilities up and running throughout the worst disasters and our data protection plans securely backup and store important data for your company. For peace of mind and 100% safe colocation hosting consider hosting with Colocation America for your web server needs.

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Blade Servers

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Adoption of blade servers has been relatively slow process. Proponents of blade servers, many server manufacturers themselves, catch up with the efficiency appearance of higher-density servers. When the data are more concentrated, a lesser amount of energy used for every FLOP (floating operations per second). While the evolution of silicon technology has paved the way for a more effective and compact processors, continuing requirement for treatment also increase. Simply speaking, more treatment is fit into identical space. With more computational power thatâs obtainable, more powerful applications are matured using the available computing power to do so. This extra power creates heat, which ought to be removed and power density increases, heat density means more heat must be discarded.

Cooling Methods

Long-established cooling methods have maintained ambient temperature in the data center itself and the fans in the servers has withdrawn from the ambient air to cool the colocation server equipment. If the heat density increases, the logistics of removing the heat generated becomes progressively complex, requiring an elevated heat transfer, either by expanding the volumetric flow of air with the temperature differential of heat-generating source. Comparatively newborn methods for cooling, air conditioning in rack or on-chip liquefied cooling has been considered to make computing closely as possible, but there are disadvantages in terms of cooling costs and logistical risk.

The Infrastructure for a Blade Server

For in-rack cooling solutions, there is significant additional infrastructure required. This infrastructure is an operational risk because of things like increased presence of fluid carrying pipes near servers, or the requirement that maintenance is performed on these cooling systems ought to be completed on the rack. When dealing with mechanical refrigeration systems using refrigerant or liquid under pressure, something goes wrong, cannot be readily containable. What would initially be included in mechanical equipment rooms would instead be drawn to the full racks themselves. Then there is the wonder of the asking price itself of such equipment, which is not linear, escalating nearly exponentially. Beyond 300 watts for each square meter, the economy in the implementation does not work; it makes more sense to spread things out a bit than to be highly concentrated.

Colocation Pricing

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Space-Based Pricing

The best approach for colocation pricing is a space-based model. Wholesale data center providers will mostly follow this model on a per-square-foot basis, whereas providing a precise number of existing space occupied (typically about 10,000 square feet or more). In case of wholesale "turn key" data center space, power and cooling are provided.

Per-rack based pricing also sort of falls into this group but in nearly all cases, consumers not looking at wholesale space will want the flexibility of specifying the needed circuits and for this case, straight rack-based pricing; not including circuit flexibility is rarely seen.

Circuit-Based Pricing

Some colocation providers even now operate the old standby of a monthly recurring cost per 20A (Amps) circuit, with prices varying by geography. Some will provision circuits 15A and 30A as requested. Providers will usually form colocation escalation clauses in contracts to assure that pricing power remains beyond the market rate. Historically, multiple colocation providers refused to endorse contracts longer than 1 (one) year with consumers to assure that the provider does not go overboard on power.

In the circuit-based model, nearly all times overheads are based in part on the space used with added charges per circuit to drive to their respective racks. The difference is that a circuit-based pricing model allows for a little more adaptability concerning customer demands with power density than a straight space model (per rack fee). If a colocation provider has a customer with a need, namely greater than the design power density data center space, further circuits can be run to the racks that require the added power at an additional cost per circuit.

It is significant to note that the added power and cooling necessities of the ordinary level will require to be compensated for elsewhere, the total of on hand power and cooling are restricted. For instance, if a customer requires 6kW (Kilowatt) for each rack and the data center is intended with 4kW (Kilowatt) per rack in mind, additional circuitry will be run to the racks, with more cooling. This additional power and cooling was initially allocated for other areas and will bring down the capacity to make it more accessible somewhere else, unless new power cooling infrastructure is installed.

Power-Based Pricing

Co-location providers are increasingly taking different approaches to pricing. In most cases customers are not looking at the wholesale margin and will want the flexibility to specify the necessary circuitry and for this debate, the straight full rack colocation pricing with no circuit leeway that would be rarely seen.

This approach met with criticism in the industry for a couple reasons. Solely when measuring current, the calibration of measuring instruments is in doubt. Just like speeding tickets used in the calibrated speed-measuring devices, charging colocation consumers based on measuring the power introduced more complexity of the requirement to maintain the existent calibration device.

Carrier Hotel

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What is a Carrier Hotel?

A colocation data center/carrier hotel is where numerous consumers locate network, server and storage gear that interconnect with each other. A carrier hotel is also known as a telco hotel, a stand-alone, multistory structure where telecommunications carriers place equipment to deliver a number of services and their interconnection with each other. Generally every carrier obtains a separate suite which could measure as low as a few hundred meters or so much as an entire floor of the facility (100k sq. feet or more). Interconnection amongst operators is using direct connections amongst suites or using an intermediary Meet-Me Room (MMR)

Standard carrier equipment in every package possibly will incorporate:

Optical terminals for lighting dark fiber, including SONET terminals and dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) equipment used to assign fiber capacity in various wavelengths, also known as lambda.
Regular telephone switching system equipment, such as AT & T 5ESS switches for providing Public Telephone network (PSTN)
Internet Protocol (IP) routing and switching equipment, which is attuned to provide Internet transit, Interconnection with more carriers and suppliers, and provisioning VPN services.
More customer-support equipment, such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay (FR) switches for enterprise VPN, multiplexing equipment for the consolidation of smaller circuits on optical equipment and network monitoring equipment. Suites are mostly referred to as a carrier POP (or Points of Presence), and possibly will contain a significant scope for consumer co-location of servers and alternative equipment. Common consumers in a carrier colocation facility is simply able to purchase services from the carrier, and not from other carriers or service providers in the carrier hotel.

Carrier hotel location is determined via various factors, including:

The locations of fiber optic carriers would be low advantage in locating a carrier POP (Point of Presence) away from that of the carrier fiber network. Carrier hotels are by necessity in places where a lot of carriers optic networks meet. This possibly will be due to geography, coincidence or deliberate planning.
Adequate and Reputable Electric Power: Nearly all carrier hotels have significant power requirements for both reliability and quantity. Frequent Carrier hotels have power grids or utility feeds from many substations and these feeds are normally unnecessary. New carrier hotels mostly have large diesel generators and associated fuel tanks for backup power, which can influence how they are placed through regulatory and environmental constraints.
Facility Size: Carrier hotels are typically somewhat large. They're more or less in no way less than 100k square feet and from time to time more than a million square Ft. This gives sufficient room for the carrier POP, Meet-Me Rooms and carrier neutral colocation facilities, and utility room, and sometimes office space for airline tenants.

Carrier hotels have recently experienced some considerable changes in customer mix. While a typical hotel operator tenants used to be the unique bearers, now tenant list includes content (example - Google, Yahoo, Metacafe, Twitter) Internet Service Providers (central server, MySpace), and cable MSOs (Cox, Comcast, Time Warner, Roadrunner). Some Carrier hotels have worldwide tenants, but this is highly reliant on geography.

One of the basic purposes of carrier hotels are to enable interconnection between carriers and content providers, web hosting companies and cable MSO's. That way, interconnection can take the form of free interconnection, a salaried customer relationship, or it can be a complex model for settling payments between the parties.

Voice Traffic

Accepted PSTN voice traffic continues to be exchanged between big voice and mobile operators with non-IP signaling system seven (SS7) links. Increasingly, voice traffic carried over IP networks, particularly international long-distance and consumer voice traffic. Non-domestic IP voice traffic grows gradually and is not an important factor in the growing market for interconnection. In addition, the number of domestic voice interconnections are shrinking because of the significant consolidation among voice operators in the U.S., Namely AT&T, BellSouth, SBC and Verizon. This phenomenon anticipated to go on. A complex mutual settlement scheme is altogether used to route voice traffic exchanges, pay-in units of my voice will be prepared to the parties to finish calls.

Internet Traffic

There are large amounts of traffic that is exchanged in carrier hotels. The size of this traffic has improved at a compound rate of 5-6% for every month (depending on season passes). Drivers for more internet traffic: Internet video, photo sharing, peer-to-peer file sharing, Voice over IP (VoIP) and greatly increased broadband penetration in the U.S. And abroad. In addition, the number of devices that are connected together to exchange Internet traffic has increased due to the proliferation of content providers in 2005-2006. While there may be a slowdown or consolidation of such providers in the event of an economic slowdown is the absolute total of units to exchange Internet traffic expected To continue to grow through 2010. Because of the developing number of connected devices, combined with a significant increase in Internet traffic, the total number of discrete connections between Internet connected parties are expected to increase significantly through 2010.

Additional Facts:

Besides the common internet traffic. There are more connections connecting the carriers to accommodate other types of data. For instance, some providers of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Virtual Private Networks (VPN) interconnect to spread out the geographical scope of their services. MPLS Such pairings are based on Internet protocols, but is generally kep separate. In addition, many carriers exchange Short Message Service aka SMS text messaging by hooking up an interconnection with a third party such as VeriSign and NeuStar. Roaming arrangements for mobile data services, such as General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Evolution-Data Optimized (EVDO), is handled in a related way. It is likely that a lot of of these non-Internet data service interconnections can be consolidated on the Internet interconnections within the next few years, quite perhaps through encrypted tunnels.

Chicago Colocation

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Providing mission critical Chicago Colocation with a proven track record, Colocation America can help your business serve important Mid-West markets with reliable colocation and managed hosting solutions. Our data centers are located at the main telco hub of Chicago at 350 E. Cermak which serves as a strategy connection point for the largest IP carriers in the world. With its combination of premier infrastructure, strategic market location and extensive data backup features, Chicago colocation in our 350 E. Cermak data center is a logical choice for firms targeting Mid-West markets. We also have several other downtown Chicago and suburban locations in which we can provide high density blade server power, private suites (up to 20,000 sq. ft.) and cages.

"The Advantages of Colocation America Chicago Hosting"

With over a decade of experience in colocation and managed hosting, our Chicago engineering staff is certified to provide 24/7 monitoring, security and configuration for your servers. Our flexible, state of the art data center has the latest security, power and hardware configurations which can be custom designed to meet your business needs. If youâre looking to jumpstart your Chicago presence, we have the technical and personnel solutions to make it happen.

Our IP connectivity gives you access to improve data deployment speeds, and our custom colocation setups can be built to your specifications. Whether you want to serve the Mid-West, Chicago or broader US market we have a proven track record of offering reliable colocation services to enterprise level firms, financial trading companies, startup businesses and media companies by providing core advantages over our competition:

Fully Managed Colocation Hosting

Our senior network engineers oversee 24/7 security which includes active monitoring, security and support on your servers. As a result, we keep your servers running optimally at all times. We also provide high density cabinets for your blade server deployment, private data suites and secure cages.

Flexible Storage and Bandwidth Solutions

With our state of the art data centers, we can offer the flexibility; price competitiveness and scalability your firm needs to grow, expand and adapt to changing technology needs including managed data storage for your disaster recovery requirements, internet access, dark fiber and metro WAN connectivity.

State of the Art Security

Our datacenters are built for maximum uptime and minimum intrusions with multiple virtual and physical security checks to ensure the integrity of your data.

Chicago Colocation Locations

350 E. Cermak Rd. Chicago, IL 60616
701 S. Lasalle St. Chicago, IL 60605
725 S. Wells St. Chicago, IL 60607
427 S. Lasalle St. Chicago, IL 60605
717 S. Wells St. Chicago, IL 60607
601 W. Polk St. Chicago, IL 60607
600 W. Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60610
1331 E. Business Center Dr. Mt Prospect, IL 60056
800 E. Business Center Dr. Mt. Prospect, IL 60056
1850 Springer Dr. Lombard, IL 60148
1808 Swift Dr. Oakbrook, IL 60523
360 E. 22nd St. Lombard, IL 60148
2425 Busse Rd. Arlington Heights, IL 60005
1905 Lunt Ave. Elk Grove Village, IL 60007

Colocation America leverages state of the art data centers within the Chicago area for clients looking for reliable hosting services with dedicated support. Colocation in Chicago gives businesses the ability to maximize exposure to new markets while lowering the cost of setting up a secure network infrastructure. Chicago Colocation offers a variety of services including: colocation hosting, dedicated servers, and VoIP services. Colocation America also provides colocation services near the Chicago area including

Colocation Oak Lawn, 60453
Colocation Cicero, 60804
Colocation Glenview, 60025
Colocation Naperville, 60540
Colocation Wheaton, 60187
Colocation Oak Park, 60301
Colocation Arlington Heights, 60004
Colocation Elgin, 60120
Colocation Aurora, 60502
Colocation Joliet, 60403

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New Jersey Colocation

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For businesses, entrepreneurs and developers who need reliable colocation services in New Jersey, Colocation America offers reliable, custom solutions. Our secure data center is strategically located on Internet backbone sources in the state, and can provide reliable access to East Coast users. Whether your company is looking to reach a new set of consumers near the site, requires secure backup or wants to expand IT resources at a low cost, our New Jersey Colocation hosting is built to suit your needs.

Our direct connection to leading IP providers ensures your data transfer has secure backup sources, reliable access to leading Tier 1 data providers, including Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing and more. Staffed by experienced network engineers, our colocation data center offers private server setups, the latest firewall technology, load balancing and several layers of data and physical security. Customers in New Jersey have relied upon Colocation America for server management, network redundancy assurance, secure data backups and impressive uptime.

"Why Host with Colocation Americaâs New Jersey Data Center"

Close to strategic destinations such as New York City, Boston and the Washington, D.C. corridor, New Jersey Colocation services provide the reliability and access your company needs. Our data centers are secured with the latest access security, generator backup and firewalls that ensure your servers are fully protected. Our on staff engineers are available for troubleshooting throughout the day, and we offer proactive server monitoring, custom cage space and custom configuration for your servers.

By colocating your servers or leasing dedicated servers with our team in New Jersey, you can lower your in-house IT costs while relying upon our experienced experts to provide professional IT support. Working with our New Jersey IT professionals can provide:

More Secure Data Storage and Transmission

We provide everything your company needs to reliably have your own virtual data center in the heart of New Jersey. Our state of the art data centers are designed to offer you more uptime, reliable access to your servers and round the clock monitoring that keeps your company running.

Reliable Access to Improve East Coast Market Access

Strategically situated near major East Coast metropolitan areas, Colocation America can provide you with a complete IT setup to help you improve your market reach. Gain better access to major New York markets so you can server your customers, clients and partners better. Our direct connections with Internet backbone providers ensure maximum uptimes and reliable data transfer for your business needs.

Custom Server Setups for your Business

Our trained network engineers can work with you to ensure you have the right server configuration and setup. In New Jersey, our goal is to provide you with a customized colocation solution to meet your business goals, objectives and demands. Working with our team, you are assured of proper support for your server no matter which configuration you require.

New Jersey Colocation Overview

100 Delawanna - 100 Delawanna Ave. Clifton, New Jersey 07014

Colocation America leverages state of the art data centers within the New Jersey area for clients looking for reliable hosting services with dedicated support. Colocation in New Jersey gives businesses the ability to maximize exposure to new markets while lowering the cost of setting up a secure network infrastructure. New Jersey Colocation offers a variety of services including: colocation hosting, dedicated servers, and VoIP services. Colocation America also provides colocation services near the New Jersey area including

Colocation Newark, 07102
Colocation Princeton, 08540
Colocation Trenton, 08608
Colocation Moorestown, 08057
Colocation Cherry Hill, 08002
Colocation Middletown, 07748
Colocation Passaic, 07055
Colocation Jersey City, 07307
Colocation Maplewood, 07040
Colocation Hoboken, 07030
Colocation New York, 10001

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New York Colocation

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Providing mission critical New York Colocation with a proven track record, Colocation America can help your business serve important East Coast markets with reliable hosting solutions. Our data center is centrally located in the historic 60 Hudson Street (60 Hudson Building) Western Union Building which serves as a strategy connection point for the largest IP carriers in the world. With its combination of premier infrastructure, strategy market location and extensive data backup features, New York colocation in our 60 Hudson Street data center is a logical choice for firms targeting East Coast markets.

"The Advantages of Colocation America New York Hosting"

With over a decade of experience in managed colocation hosting, our New York engineering staff is certified to provide 24/7 monitoring, security and configuration for your servers. Our flexible, state of the art data center has the latest security, power and hardware configurations which can be custom designed to meet your business needs. If youâre looking to jumpstart your New York presence, we have the technical and personnel solutions to make it happen.

Our IP connectivity gives you access to improve data deployment speeds, and our custom colocation setups can be built to your specifications. Whether you want to serve the East Coast, Manhattan or broader US market we have a proven track record of offering reliable colocation services to enterprise level firms, startup businesses and media companies by providing core advantages over our competition:

Fully Managed Colocation Hosting

Our senior network engineers oversee 24/7 security which includes active monitoring, security and support on your servers. As a result, we keep your servers running optimally at all times.

Flexible Storage and Bandwidth Solutions

With our state of the art data center in 60 Hudson, we can offer the flexibility; price competitiveness and scalability your firm needs to grow, expand and adapt to changing technology needs.

State of the Art Security

Our data centers are built for maximum uptime and minimum intrusions with multiple virtual and physical security checks to ensure the integrity of your data.

Located near the nexus of financial and market activity for both consumers and firms, New York colocation puts your servers securely in the heart of commercial activity. The East Coast is one of the most concentrated business areas for market movers, consumer demand and media consumption "having a colocated serve in the region, therefore, helps you reach your target audience faster and more efficient."

New York Colocation Location

60 Hudson Building - 60 Hudson Building New York, NY 10013

Colocation America leverages state of the art data centers within the New York area for clients looking for reliable hosting services with dedicated support. Colocation in New York gives businesses the ability to maximize exposure to new markets while lowering the cost of setting up a secure network infrastructure. New York Colocation offers a variety of services including: colocation hosting, dedicated servers, and VoIP services. Colocation America also provides colocation services near the New York area including

Colocation Manhattan, 10021
Colocation Bronx , 10463
Colocation Brooklyn, 11204
Colocation Long Island City, 11102
Colocation Sunnyside, 11104
Colocation Flushing, 11355
Colocation Bayside, 11359
Colocation Fresh Meadows, 11365
Colocation East Brunswick, 08816
Colocation Woodhaven, 11421
Colocation Ridgewood, 11385
Colocation Red Hook, 12507
Colocation Middle Village, 11379
Colocation Chalfont, 18914

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San Francisco Colocation

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Secure your West Coast server requirements by relying upon colocation hosting from Colocation America. Our San Francisco Colocation hosting services offer direct access to leading IP backbone providers to maximize the speed, reliability and secure transfer of your data. We focus on providing custom server cages and support from our professional team to meet your business needs.

Strategically located near the Paul network data transfer center in San Francisco, we have direct relationships with the leading IP providers and have invested in a state of the art data center. As a result, you can get maximum uptimes, secure data transfer with both firewall and physical security as well as 24/7 support from trained network engineers.

We offer cost effective, reliable San Francisco colocation servers to meet your data transfer requirements. Whether youâre looking for improved data transfer speed to West Coast markets, need reliable backups for your corporate data or want redundant backups for your company, we work with leading companies to provide trusted hosting solutions.

"Top Reasons to Colocate with Colocation America in San Francisco"

There are good reasons why leading enterprises, entrepreneurs and growing businesses rely upon Colocation Americaâs San Francisco data centers: we have a proven track record for over a decade of providing the right infrastructure, expert support and cost effective hosting services. We serve many leading Silicon Valley and regional firms to help them meet their IT needs on a regular basis.

Building upon our reputation for excellence, our San Francisco data center services are designed to cater to new audiences and to provide complete outsourced IT solutions so you can focus on running your business:

Strategic access to California and Pacific Rim markets

Our data centers are catered to both growing firms and international corporations that require strategic access to Silicon Valley, Asian markets and West Coast audiences. Working with Colocation American San Francisco, you can gain easier access to a variety of customers and clients to meet your business objectives. Our data center services can scale and adapt to grow as your company expands into new markets.

Secure, Fast Tier-1 Bandwidth Transfers

California is home to some of the best bandwidth providers in the country, and our San Francisco data center has secure, direct access to leading tier-1 bandwidth providers. As a result, your data transfer rates are much faster than traditional in-house managed IT services and you can improve delivery speed to customers, whether youâre transmitting real time data, streaming media or need better performance for your company backups. We work with firms in nearly every industry to provide the technology needed to keep their businesses online.

World Class Technology and Engineers

Colocation American invests in our people, data centers and technology to maintain a world class facility. You can be fully confident our San Francisco hosting services provide you with secure, fast data hosting that is supported by an experienced, leading team of experts. Our data centers feature multiple layers of security and backups to ensure one of the best uptimes in the industry, and we continually invest in new technology to better serve our customers.

San Francisco Colocation Location

200 Paul Exchange - 200 Paul St. San Francisco, CA 94110

Colocation America leverages state of the art data centers within the San Francisco area for clients looking for reliable hosting services with dedicated support. Colocation in San Francisco gives businesses the ability to maximize exposure to new markets while lowering the cost of setting up a secure network infrastructure. San Francisco Colocation offers a variety of services including: colocation hosting, dedicated servers, and VoIP services. Colocation America also provides colocation services near the San Francisco area including

Colocation Dale City - 94014
Colocation San Bruno - 94066
Colocation Bay Area - 94102
Colocation Castro Valley - 94546
Colocation Berkeley - 94707
Colocation Oakland - 94601
Colocation Alameda - 94501
Colocation Pacifica - 94044
Colocation Colma - 94014
Colocation Saratoga - 95070
Colocation San Jose - 95112
Colocation Sacramento - 95828
Colocation Mountain View - 94041

Los Angeles Colocation

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Strategically situated to reach high value West Coast and Pacific Rim audiences, colocating in Los Angeles can put your company ahead of the curve with superior data transfer rates. Whether you are serving consumers, fellow businesses or need very reliable backup in California, Colocation America has over a decade of experience in providing trusted, reliable Los Angeles Data Center services.

Along with our Four (4) other Data Center Locations our primary location is centrally located in the world famous One Wilshire Building in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, Colocation America has direct access to the leading IP infrastructure providers in the world. As a result, our LA colocation services offers superior data transmission speeds backed up by the most reliable service for enterprise communications, VOIP data, corporate servers, streaming media and any other server need you can imagine.

If youâre looking to host your servers in a reliable Los Angeles data center for your phone server, e-Commerce site, regulatory compliance, media transfer, data backup or international business needs, then our team has the expertise to exceed your expectations. Our Wilshire data center is ideally located to maximize data transfer rates, and our partnerships with leading backbone providers ensure you the uptime (over 99.99%) with multiple power and cooling paths (hot and cold row) , monitoring our premium bandwidth (over 60% peered) needed to reach your hosting needs to perfection.

Data security and integrity are our focal point as we have upgraded our Los Angeles colocation data center with redundant physical and data security, emergency backups and virtually unlimited bandwidth transmission through our upstream providers. By investing in industry standard reliable infrastructure, you can count on our LA data center with multiple power sources (N+2), onsite senior engineers and redundant routing BGP routing (Border Gateway Protocol) to ensure premium data transfer. We offer flexible server setups to meet the very custom needs of your business.

"The Advantages of Colocation America Los Angeles Hosting"

When it comes to selecting Los Angeles colocation, the One Wilshire building is the gold standard of the industry and our engineers have over a decade of experience in ensuring the security, integrity and speed of data transmission. Working with Colocation America ensures your business in our Los Angeles data centers with the following services:

State of the Art electric and cooling systems, including redundant UPS and diesel generators
24/7 biometric security and extensive professional staff training
Expansive datacenter space and custom server options
Fast data transmission to the West Coast and Pacific Rim markets

Both our infrastructure and technical engineers are dedicated to helping you realize your secure data transfer goals. We constantly invest in the latest data center technology to provide state of the art connectivity, backups and IP solutions by partnering with leading firms in the industry. Our One Wilshire location and Four (4) other Data Center Locations in Los Angeles features direct access to over 240 of the worldâs top bandwidth carriers, including the top IP providers in the nation and the world, allowing you to maximize data transmission rates in a secure and stable environment.

Los Angeles Colocation Overview (One Wilshire)

One Wilshire Colocation- 624 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90017

Data Center Space	Cage-To-Cabinet Colocation
Certifications	SAS 70 Type I certified
Power Density	Up to 6 KWs per cabinet and higher
UPS Power	N+1 and redundant AC/DC UPS power
Generator Power	N and 2N emergency generator configuration
Data Center Cooling	N+1 cooling system
Fire Suppression	Dual-interlock, dry-pipe pre-action fire suppression system with VESDA
Data Center Security	24x7 staffing and site access, mantraps, CCTV surveillance, and biometric access control
Data Center Services	24x7 remote hands and mechanical & electrical monitoring
Networks Services	Carrier-neutral access to over 200 networks and service providers through diverse points of entry
Los Angeles Peering	Access to Any2, CoreSiteâs Internet exchange
Roof Space	Ample space for antenna towers with line-of-site in several directions

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Los Angeles Colocation Locations

624 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90017
707 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90017
600 W. 7th St. Los Angeles, CA 90017
650 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90017
530 W. 6th St. Los Angeles, CA 90014

Colocation America leverages state of the art data centers within the Los Angeles area for clients looking for reliable hosting services with dedicated support. Colocation in Los Angeles gives businesses the ability to maximize exposure to new markets while lowering the cost of setting up a secure network infrastructure. Los Angeles Colocation offers a variety of services including: colocation hosting, dedicated servers, and VoIP services. Colocation America also provides colocation services near the Los Angeles area including

Colocation Pasadena, 91103
Colocation Glendale, 91201
Colocation Burbank, 91502
Colocation Beverly Hills, 90210
Colocation Culver City, 90230
Colocation Marina Del Rey, 90292
Colocation Santa Monica, 90401
Colocation Studio City, 91602
Colocation Pomona, 91765
Colocation Palmdale, 93550
Colocation Long Beach, 90745
Colocation Santa Clarita, 91321
Colocation West Covina, 91790
Colocation El Monte, 91731
Colocation Alhambra, 91801

Colocation Consulting - Colocation America

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As an industry leader in managed hosting and information technology services, Colocation America works with leading small and enterprise firms to provide proven consulting services. Working with our team of dedicated IT professionals, firms benefit from our expansive knowledge of data transfer, security, online business and network strategy. Our solid track record of success in helping firms to optimize IT infrastructure planning has earned us clients throughout the world. Look below and find out why Colocation America is the right choice to help you make informed, effective hosting decisions:

Proven Infrastructure, Latest Technology

In working with our colocation hosting experts, weâll focus on the ways you can most effectively use new technology to help improve your firmâs operations. We work with over 200 of the countryâs leading Tier-1 IP providers that give us direct connections to help you improve the speed, reliability and security of your data transfer. Whether youâre looking for a more economical way to scale your existing IT infrastructure or want to shift to a more cost effective model, we can help you network scale by crafting a custom colocation hosting plan to improve the storage, transfer and security of your data. Our colocation services go well beyond just providing server space: our colocation consulting services provide you with the expertise necessary to ensure both your business and technology needs are met at the same time.

Real Time Support, Lasting Solutions

As certified network engineers, we understand that your business canât afford to take a minute off: for that reason weâre here to offer you solutions that stand the test of time. Our data centers are open 24/7/365 (even on leap years) and we craft colocation hosting solutions that provide cost effective, stable infrastructure to meet your business goals. While we pride ourselves on prompt, thorough support, weâll be here to help support your project through an ongoing, mutually beneficial business relationship. Weâve grown to become a leading provider of colocation hosting by fostering long run relationships with blue chip and small businesses, and we offer stability, expertise and reliability to ensure your business needs are fully met.

Local Focus, Global Results

Our network support engineers work with each client on a custom, one-to-one basis to better understand their business goals. Whether you are a global firm or an expanding local entrepreneur, we can craft a plan that fits ideally with your long run business goals as you grow. We maintain data centers in the heart of some of the largest markets, including our award winning One Wilshire Los Angeles Data Center as well as San Francisco, New York, Chicago and New Jersey colocation centers to provide access to regional and global markets. As a result, our consultants can work with you to craft a custom colocation hosting plan to ensure 24/7 security, faster data transfer, state of the art backups and a plan to help meet your IT needs as your firm evolves.

Our Plan:

Colocation America will consult with you to better understand your current services, business challenges, future technology needs and selection criteria for choosing a colocation provider. We will then find out your colocation requirements for location, space, power and bandwidth and other factors to make your decision

Once you let us know how quickly you need to be up and running will determine Colocation America to help us match you with the best-fit colo facility in your target region. We will then research your hosting options pulling from services offered by over 300+ quality colocation data center providers by focusing our recommendation around your priorities which may include vendor preferences, price, SLA, solution reputation, region, included features, etc.

Our calculated recommendation to you include projected monthly expenses, transition costs and an explanation of all services and vendors as we may provide one or multiple alternatives to consider depending on your situation.

Our Goal:

Colocation America's goal is to provide you all the information you need to take advantage of the opportunities available to you.

Considering Collocation hosting can be complicated, there are often some back and forth discussions between everyone to find a very satisfied solution strategy for you which will result in extensive work with your team to plan an implementation strategy.

Your business relies on these services everyday and we want to make sure transition happens as smoothly as possible as we will work with your team to accurately order new data center services.

If you need implementation assistance, we will recommend consultants as part of our evaluation. In a case where we will not offer colocation services in your area, we will provide a colocation provider which will bill your services directly.

Once all said and done, We are available to help review and clarify your initial bills with your new hosting provider and you new vendors will support your services directly. We are available to help escalate support issues and work with you to adjust your services as your business grows and/or your colocation needs change.

Qualities We Look For From Top Data Centers:

Convenient and Secure Location
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Professionalism
Availability of Space
Bandwidth Offerings
Quality of Network
Monitoring Tools and Services
Redundancy
Time Required for Install
Security Systems in Place
Staff on Hand
Additional Services Available
Business History/Reputation
HighCustomer Satisfaction
Fair Pricing and Terms