[53639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Suggestions for ASP colo space that will be around in 3 years?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Francis)
Tue Nov 19 16:55:23 2002
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:47:57 -0800
From: Steve Francis <steve@expertcity.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Should have mentioned - West Coast. Currently in San Jose area. LA
would be OK, too.
Steve Francis wrote:
>
> We're being booted from one of our main colo data centers by C&W
> closing down that facility.
>
> Our main priorities for picking a new data center to locate in are:
> 1. not having to move again within three years
> 2. physical security (or at least the impression thereof. We don't
> have unprotected consoles or anything, but as an ASP, we need an
> impressive facility for dog and pony shows.)
> 3. multiple providers (preferably carrier neutral, but so long as we
> can get 1Gb from another provider, even if via something like Telseon,
> that's OK.)
>
> Our other main datacenter is in an Equinix site, so for risk
> management, we don't want to go into any other Equinix site.
>
> So anyone have any insight as to who will be around within 3 years?
>
> Thanks
