Building on top of (or more correctly inside of) the rock solid physical infrastructure of The Mountain Complex Data Center (TMDC), DTS now offers Data Center Colocation.

Colocation Defined

For some, the term Colocation may be vague or unfamiliar, and its meaning can vary between providers. For our purposes, Colocation is a service whereby customers house servers which they retain ownership of in DTS's rack enclosures and connect those servers to DTS's infrastructure. Since several customer's servers are housed in each rack enclosure, this service is called "co"-location. Security at The Mountain is rigidly controlled and all access is monitored. Even though a customer is sharing space with other customers, each customer's equipment is far safer in The Mountain than it is in the customer's own facility.

Benefits of The Mountain Data Center

Companies choosing to colocate equipment with DTS, can expect a myriad of benefits. All tenants of The Mountain are housed in a one-of-a-kind, World-Class facility. Designed to be a Tier IV data center, The Mountain offers fully redundant (also known as 2N) critical physical services . These services are redundant at multiple levels, and scheduled maintenance can occur without any negative impact on the redundancy of the system. This level of redundancy ensures that 99.999% (a.k.a 5 9's) uptime is not a much vaunted goal, but a baseline standard.

Housed in an active dolomite limestone mine, several features set The Mountain apart from other underground facilities. Firstly, while The Mountain does have 146 feet of solid rock overhead, it is still 200 feet above the top of Table Rock Dam, and all access to the facility is at ground level. This fact, added to the layers of shale intermixed between the limestone in the overburden, make this facility bone dry and highly unlikely to flood by anything less than biblical proportions.

To insure air quality and enhance security, no vehicles are allowed inside of the "quiet" side of The Mountain. Access to all doors is via proximity card key, with critical doors further protected by biometric scanners. The facility is monitored both locally and via two separate, remote central stations.

Benefits of Colocation with DTS at The Mountain Data Center

Heretofore, if a customer wanted to house equipment at TMDC, that customer's only option would be to lease a minimum of 100 square feet, provide all of their own rack enclosures, network equipment, power strips, management equipment (KVM, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse), cabling, and then assemble and install all of it. Further, contracts with telecommunications providers for the required bandwidth would have to be negotiated and signed. This model works well for some companies, and DTS offers our Data Center Services to aid and support customers who prefer that type of arrangement. However many other companies lack the staff, expertise, capital or need for that type of arrangement or that much space.

To serve companies who fall into the latter category, DTS offers a packaged service combining all of the required hardware, equipment, infrastructure, bandwidth and labor. The customer then only has to pay one monthly (or for a significant discount) yearly fee.

By leveraging the economies of scale colocation offers, DTS can provide high performance equipment that is often times out of financial reach of all but the largest of companies. This high performance, highly available, redundant equipment is the perfect compliment to the critical services offered by TMDC.

The most important element we offer is our expertise in designing, implementing, and managing a network critical physical infrastructure. Added to this is our years of experience in configuring, installing and administering server hardware, software and network equipment. We have the skills to take your network to the next level, a place where 5 9's is not a pipe dream, but a daily reality.

Contact DTS today and let us help you plan your move to The Mountain.