Data Center Options

Headquartered in Washington, DC, many of our customers have elected to relocate critical business applications to a data center. Co-Locating in a data center offers several distinct advantages over traditional premise based server rooms.

• Physically located outside of the immediate metropolitan area.
• High level of premise security including 24x7 manned security, man traps, biometric scanning equipment.
• Private caged equipment.
• Multiple divergent internet carriers for redundancy.
• Redundant power, battery backup, and generator power.
• Redundant cooling and environmental controls.

designDATA provides our customers with options intended to satisfy your specific organizational goals.

Co-Location Options
Customer owned server equipment located in designDATA's tier-one data center.

vHost
designDATA fully managed redundant enterprise hardware, running your critical applications, with a 99.99% service level agreement.

Metro Ethernet
vHost and Co-Location customers can utilize designDATA's network of EFM (Ethernet First Mile) providers to light high speed metro ethernet fiber. Direct private fiber connectivity into the data center for high-speed, completely 100% secure, connectivity into the facility.

Disaster Recovery
designDATA customers electing to manage equipment in there own server room may choose to leverage the data center for disaster recovery purposes.

Data Backup
Replication of customer data from their server room to the designDATA data center.