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RampRate's Data Center & Colocation Practice

RampRate's Data Center & Colocation practice has guided dozens of top IT organizations through the challenges of maintaining competitive data center operations worldwide. With more than a billion dollars in sourced and evaluated data center spend, our accomplishments have cut costs, accelerated time-frames and reduced risk for clients across multiple industries.

RampRate Data Center and Colocation Advisory Services Include:

• Benchmarking shared services vs. peers and vs. market.
• Mid-Contract renegotiation, often resulting in 7 figure savings.
• Vendor and facility selection optimized for a combination of cost, SLA, contract flexibility, carrier neutrality, and other factors.
• Identification of optimal regional placement based on taxation, power rates, resiliency against disasters, and other factors — greatly reducing costs and risks.
• Identifying one-of-a kind opportunities for anchor tenancies, highly localized hosting, global expansion, built-in DC power, Tier IV data centers, and other rare commodities.
• Accelerating time frames; moving clients from requirements to a signed contract within as little as 2-3 weeks — and to deployment in under 2 months.

See case studies of Blizzard Entertainment and Audible to see how RampRate's expertise translated into accelerated deployment, huge cost savings and significant risk reduction for these clients.

RAMPRATE'S GREEN DATA CENTER COMMITMENT

RampRate has made a formal commitment to The Clinton Global Initiative to reduce investment in non-renewable energy sources for corporate data centers. With RampRate's guidance, data center greening can be achieved with neutral or even positive impact on the bottom line. Strategies Include:

1) Advising clients on more efficient hardware architectures, including a move from legacy hardware to energy efficient blade servers with a view to electrical capacities required.

2) Identifying, qualifying, and promoting data center vendors that use renewable energy -- including wind, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric -- for a significant part of their power supply.

3) Identifying, qualifying, and promoting data center vendors that use geothermal heat exchange and other energy-efficient strategies for maintaining a proper data center environment.

4) Identifying, qualifying, and promoting data center vendors that use biodiesel and / or other renewable resources for backup power generators.

5) Directing clients with no specific geographic preference to regions with a higher percentage of grid power derived from renewable sources.

6) Identifying and tracking the total environmental impact of client strategies on overall greenhouse gas emissions and helping clients publicize the results of their efforts.

7) Recognizing the top 10 most environmentally friendly data center facilities in the US through a primary research project and promoting them to the top 500 users of data center facilities in the US.

For more information, please download our Green Data Center Whitepaper.

Request A Complimentary Top-Line Benchmark

If you have current Data Center Operations spend greater than $500K / year, you may be eligible for RampRate to perform a complimentary review of three of your current contracts in the form of a no-cost Top-Line Benchmark.

The Top-Line Benchmark will identify opportunities to improve your contractual positions with respect to service levels, costs, business terms, and risk mitigation.

The Top-Line Benchmark is a no-cost, confidential service performed by our analyst team.

 

 

If you have general exploratory questions or would like a consultation with one of our Data Center & Colocation experts, please contact Michael Hoch, President, (310) 319-1599.