Selecting a San Francisco Data Center

When selecting a San Francisco data center, several criteria should be kept in mind:

• Uptime. Here the key consideration is the degree of redundancy built into the colocation data center’s power, climate control, and networking systems, as well as the proficiency of and practices followed by the San Francisco data center’s technical staff.
• Security. You’ll want a San Francisco data center that employs the most advanced physical and network security technologies and practices.
• Scalability. Can the data center quickly and reliably scale with you as your business grows?
• Durability. San Francisco colocation facilities vary in how long they’ve been in operation, and in their fiscal stability. You’ll want a San Francisco data center that you can count on not just now, but in the future.
• Location. You’ll want your San Francisco data center close enough to visit when you need to, but you should also want your facility to be in an ideal location for a data center: a location that’s relatively inexpensive compared to the surrounding region, allows room for facility growth, and that’s relatively immune to natural disasters. For these reasons, if you’re seeking a San Francisco datacenter, or a Silicon Valley colocation center, the facility down the street or across town may not be your best bet.

Why Your Best San Francisco Data Center Option is in Sacramento

When evaluating your San Francisco data center options, be sure to look towards neighboring Sacramento. Just a very short drive away, a Sacramento-based data center offers critical advantages that San Francisco-based facilities cannot match:

• Sacramento is less expensive than San Francisco in terms of real estate, power, and other costs of doing business. Lower operating costs mean that a Sacramento-based data center can offer you more for your money than a local San Francisco data center. Parts of Sacramento also benefit from being in a state enterprise tax zone, which translates to tax incentives for firms that use a Sacramento-based data center.
• Unlike San Francisco, Sacramento offers ample room for data centers to grow as their customers grow.
• Sacramento is on a different and much more stable tectonic plate than San Francisco, so a Sacramento-based data center faces far less risk from earthquakes large or small than does a local San Francisco data center.

RagingWire is the Premier Sacramento Data Center

The advantages of using a Sacramento-based data center are clear, and the best Sacramento data center is RagingWire Enterprise Solutions:

• Our state-of-the art Enterprise Data Center^SM is the premier Northern California data center. Engineered to meet the uptime and scalability demands of enterprise-class customers, this elite data center boasts a 99.999% available, N+2 redundant power, cooling, and network infrastructure; SONET ring-based, carrier-neutral network connectivity; and the most advanced physical security technologies including multi-layer authentication and 360 degree high definition CCTV.  Our 220,000 ft² facility can scale power and cooling to over 225W/ft².
• With a top-notch staff committed to industry best practices, RagingWire has welcomed and repeatedly satisfied the toughest level of SAS 70 type II audit.
• As former IT people ourselves, we have an unparalleled commitment to customer service.
• With a strong capital foundation and consistent profitability, you can count on RagingWire now and in the future.

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