The Importance of Location When Choosing a San Francisco Datacenter

Enterprises seeking a San Francisco datacenter to house their IT assets will no doubt  judge candidate centers by criteria such as reliability, scalability, security, and support services. Less obvious but also critical to making the best choice for your San Francisco datacenter needs is the location of the datacenter. To a large extent, the logic of using a third party datacenter for your IT hosting needs is the logic of specialization: dedicated entirely to the task of IT hosting, a good datacenter should be able to provide the very best in power infrastructure, climate control systems, security technologies, and the like.

This same logic of specialization should apply to location as well. Ideally your third party datacenter’s location should have these attributes:

• Low capital and operating costs compared to the broader region.
• Room for the datacenter to expand, in order to accommodate long-term growth.
• Relative immunity to natural disasters, compared to the broader region.
• Tax incentives built into the location.

When these factors are taken into consideration, enterprise decision-makers seeking a San Francisco datacenter would be well advised to expand their search outside of San Francisco.

Why Seekers of a San Francisco Datacenter Should Look to Sacramento

When the importance of location is considered, you may find that your San Francisco datacenter needs are best served by a facility in nearby Sacramento. Just a short drive away, Sacramento offers San Francisco datacenter seekers several key advantages:

• Sacramento is significantly less costly than San Francisco. Lower operating costs mean that a Sacramento datacenter can offer you more bang for your hosting buck than a local San Francisco datacenter. And because areas of Sacramento reside within a state enterprise zone, you may be eligible for tax incentives if you do business with a Sacramento datacenter.
• Because Sacramento is less congested than San Francisco, a Sacramento datacenter has a clearer long-term facility growth path than does a local San Francisco datacenter.
• With Sacramento being on a different and more stable tectonic plate than San Francisco, a Sacramento colocation facility faces significantly less earthquake risk than a San Francisco colocation facility.

For these reasons and others, enterprises in need of a San Francisco datacenter should look a bit inland, toward Sacramento. Likewise, Sacramento is an attractive option for San Jose-based enterprises, and even for enterprises seeking a Phoenix data center or Phoenix colocation services.

RagingWire is Sacramento’s Leading Datacenter

Based in Sacramento, RagingWire Enterprise Solutions is the premier Northern California data center. Our 220,000 square foot Enterprise Data Center^SM was built from the ground up specifically to support the extreme IT infrastructure demands of Fortune 1000 enterprises. This facility boasts the most advanced and reliable technologies available for power, climate control, security, monitoring, and network access. We are SAS 70 type II compliant, environmentally responsible, and committed to providing you the highest caliber customer service that you deserve and expect.

If you’re in the market for a San Francisco data center, please visit our home page now. There you can learn more about RagingWire, our world-class Enterprise Data Center, our datacenter hosting services, and the benefits of nearby Sacramento.