Vendor & Facility Selection

The Challenge

Selecting the right vendor and the right facility or deciding to build your own data center are politically charged decisions.  Depending upon your circumstances, if your search and selection is not done discretely, industry analysts, competitors, and vendors can draw unfavorable conclusions and/or gain advantage.  Additionally, ramping up an internal search team will take time and distract resources away from critical day-to-day operations.   

The Solution

As individuals, when we purchase real estate we rely upon specialists to guide us through the marketplace, assist us in evaluating options, and establishing fair market value.  A smart choice when selecting a data center vendor and facility is to do the same. Your data center vendor and facility selection consultant should be knowledgeable of local, near-shore and offshore options as well as the costs associated with building or expanding your own.  They should be independent and unbiased evaluators who are skilled at conducting discrete searches that provide for your anonymity and privacy.

The David-Kenneth Group Difference

David-Kenneth's sole focus on Data Center Migrations means we know what your options are.  We have developed a 9 point evaluation tool that provides us with a good starting point for vendor and facility selection.  This assumes you have already developed detailed requirements prior to initiating a search. Here are the points covered in the David-Kenneth Data Center Vendor and Facility tool:

1. Organization and Administration
2. Physical Access Restrictions
3. Facilities Management
4. Logical Access Controls
5. Computer Operations
6. Client Migration Controls
7. Account Management
8. Client Invoicing Controls
9. Disaster Recovery

Discuss your Data Center Vendor and Facility questions with a David-Kenneth Consultant:

• Call David-Kenneth at 888.681.1988  |  no-cost consultation
• Email David-Kenneth using the below form