Baltimore Colocation in Maryland

The Features of Colocation Services

Virtual colocation hosting comes with many different associated advantages that are particularly beneficial in today’s business climate.

One challenge faced by businesses in a variety of different industries is the issue of how to adjust and expand the capabilities of their information technology systems in order to meet customer demand and a changing business environment while keeping operating costs manageable at the same time.

Traditionally, this challenge is met by deploying upgraded infrastructure and hiring additional personnel in an effort to expand internal IT capabilities. This can be more expensive and difficult to manage in the long run.

Our Baltimore colocation service reduces those additional costs by hosting your important data at our SSAE-16 Audited and PCI-DSS certified facility. Doing this offers you and your employees a great degree of mobility and flexibility in a secure virtual environment.

As a colocation provider, we strive to provide the highest quality service to our clients in utility as well as security. Every colocation server hosted for our clients on our network meets industry standard security regulations and has an advanced management system that guarantees the safety of your critical data.

With offsite colocation hosting, your company can focus on what it does best while spending as few of your business resources as possible on things related to the constant implementation and upkeep of new and important information technology systems.

The Benefits of Colocation Services

We wouldn’t be advocating the use of our colocation services if they didn’t highly benefit your business and heres some ways colocation can do that:

• On Demand Scalability – This feature allows you to use as little or as much storage space on our servers as you require and pay for your use accordingly.
• Virtual Resources Management – You can, as a customer, manage the resources that you have stored via a virtual center. This can be done at any time of the day.
• Lower Initial and Overall Cost – Setting up a colocation server spares you from having to set up, maintain and manage a server on your own property
• Data Security and Retention – Our colocation data center is PCI-DSS Compliant, keeping your data completely secure.
• Protection for Disaster Recovery – Our Baltimore colocation facilities and data centers feature dry pipe fire suppression to protect equipment. We also have cutting edge emergency protocol in place.
• Hardware and System Management – Staff members are present on site 24 hours a day; 7 days a week to ensure constant operation of our facilities and to provide support should it be needed.
• Meet Audit Requirements – Our facilities are SAS 70 Type II certified, meaning that our services meet certain control objective standards that are in place to assure effectiveness.

About Our Colocation Data Centers

Our Baltimore Colocation data center covers 18,000 square feet with redundant fiber ring connectivity directly tied to multiple Tier-1 carriers for secure ground communications.

We meet the necessary power requirements so that our clients can reach their personal colocation server at any time of day in order to have access to their data as their needs might relate to any of the services that we provide, services that include:

• Managed Services
• Business Broadband (Gigabit Ethernet)
• Cloud Computing
• Virtualization

By outsourcing your IT needs to DataPoint’s colocation facilities, you can streamline your way of doing business, increase productivity and redirect more resources to the core competencies of your company.

The standards of reliability and expandability that we follow are what uphold our philosophy of service to our customers and we compliment that with our Operations Support Center (OSC), so that you never have to worry about losing the information that you entrust DataPoint to safeguard.