Colocation Services

Colocation Solutions to Keep Your IT Strategic

Digital transformation is driving rapid changes in IT infrastructure strategies and IT executives have a lot of options to consider. While many workloads / applications are moving to the cloud, there are important reasons why colocation remains a critical part of your IT strategy.

Our Colocation Services will help your business to:

Improve reliability and uptime

Enhance business continuity and disaster recovery

Enable hybrid cloud and enhance access to public cloud providers

Facilitate consolidation of company-owned data centers

Increase network bandwidth and connectivity

DC BLOX builds secure, reliable Tier III data centers in markets where such facilities have not previously been available. There is no longer a need to build and maintain your own data centers or to drive to the nearest major metropolitan area to get the colocation services your business needs. With concurrently maintainable redundant power and cooling systems; resilient network connectivity over our private network; and efficient cloud storage in each facility, DC BLOX protects your IT infrastructure and data at the edge and keeps it running.

Colocation Features & Benefits

Features

Concurrently maintainable dual path (A & B) power busses for greater resiliency

Tier III Data Center Design with N+1 electrical and N+1 mechanical redundancy

Modular enclosures provide flexible space including half cabinets, full cabinets, and full pods – as well as densities up to 30kW per rack cabinet

Remote Hands and Eyes services managed by on-site, in-house technicians for faster equipment reboots, circuit testing, cable and card replacements, and tape rotation

24x7x365 manned security which includes CCTV monitoring and retention for data center perimeter, data center hall and cabinets

Benefits

Modern design and expert operations lower costs vs. in-house

Connected data centers provide multitude of connectivity options

Tier III basis of design reduces risk of failure saving costs of downtime

100% SLA for power, temperature and humidity

Flexible space and high-density power configurations

24x7x365 service monitoring

Colocation Services Overview

Whitespace Options

DC BLOX currently has space and power available across our existing portfolio of sites with access to greenfield real estate and power assurance from our utility partners, with more space and power capacity planned soon.

Ready-Now

With our Ready-Now solutions, you have a choice of infrastructure configurations from existing commissioned capacity that meet your specific needs. Leveraging our existing designs for power, cooling, connectivity and security from whitespace available in multiple Southeastern regional locations, we can get your IT up and running quickly and efficiently. Whether you’re looking for available cabinets or cages or want to bring your own, we have flexible configurations that make it easy, enabling you to focus on growing your business.

Single-Tenant

We recognize that when it comes to colocation requirements, one size does not fit all. That’s why we offer single-tenant solutions designed to give you the security and control your business requires. From building customized data halls to standalone build-to-suit structures at our existing locations, we provide you with a platform to tailor to your specific needs. Contact us today to discuss your options.

DC BLOX Colocation Data Centers

Our colocation facilities are built in growing markets across the Southeast to bring the secure, reliable data center services needed by local businesses, universities, healthcare organizations, and government.

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Birmingham, AL

DC BLOX’s Birmingham data center campus offers colocation and wholesale solutions today, with a new 263,000 sq ft data center available for large-scale build-to-suit deployments. The campus is connected to DC BLOX’s regional network with dark fiber connectivity available.

Birmingham Data Center
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Chattanooga, TN

The DC BLOX Chattanooga data center is strategically located within 150 miles of major metropolitan areas, so surrounding cities like Atlanta, Knoxville and Nashville can benefit from Chattanooga’s Gig. Its location also makes it an ideal Disaster Recovery site to businesses in nearby cities.

Chattanooga Data Center
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Greenville, SC

Ideally located between the major metropolitan areas of Charlotte and Atlanta, the purpose-built Tier III-designed Greenville data center delivers the security, compliance and connectivity required by enterprises, state and local governments and Managed Service Providers.

Greenville Data Center
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Huntsville, AL

Built to service executive branch agencies, defense contractors and any organization that handles, possesses, shares, and receives Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), the Huntsville data center has the ability to up-scope to higher levels of information classification.

Huntsville Data Center
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Myrtle Beach, SC

Also serving as a regional cable landing station for the Southeastern US, the Myrtle Beach facility also supports colocation for local enterprise, IT service providers, and carriers.

Myrtle Beach Cable Landing Station

Colocation Solutions

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Cloud Storage

The DC BLOX Cloud Storage platform is based upon object storage technology, enabling highly efficient and reliable storage at scale, from within or external to any DC BLOX data center.

High-Density Colocation

A special data hall design accommodates applications requiring up to 32kW per cabinet to support applications requiring high-performance compute including AI.

Disaster Recovery

Reliable colocation facilities connected by a low-latency network and cloud provider access enables a wide range of disaster recovery solutions.

Hybrid IT

DC BLOX facilitates the implementation and connectivity of hybrid IT solutions involving company-owned data centers, colocation facilities, and the cloud.

Our Colocation Services Connect Globally

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DC BLOX also understands that the increasing distribution of IT infrastructure and data in local facilities, in the cloud, on IoT devices, within mobile apps, and with partners demands a new approach.

DC BLOX data centers are equipped with a private, software-defined network and an ecosystem of connectivity partners that provide your business with a breadth of networking options that most businesses cannot get efficiently from their own locations.

Key Capabilities of DC BLOX Data Center Connectivity

Private optical network across Southeastern US

Virtual cross-connects to carriers in any DC BLOX data center

100G+ connections between every data center

Low-latency to Internet Exchanges – hundreds of carrier connections to everywhere

Private connectivity to cloud providers

Related Resources

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