{"id":1606,"date":"2017-05-05T12:50:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T17:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2018-06-25T14:19:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T19:19:35","slug":"top-data-centers-arent-owned-guys-thats-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/2017\/05\/top-data-centers-arent-owned-guys-thats-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Data Centers Aren’t Owned by IT Guys and That’s a Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s Wrong with this Picture?<\/h2>\n
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This guy has no idea what he’s doing…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A guy walking up and down\u00c2\u00a0an aisle in a data center, dressed in\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>a suit<\/span> and holding a notebook usually means that he’s either lost, confused or is a license key auditor from Microsoft.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not making fun of his fashion sense, or the fact that he likes to take notes in a fancy, oversized notebook – but it’s clear that he doesn’t fit in. Seems like, he came into this scenario unprepared to do anything that would benefit a customer in this environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what’s the point? There’s an 80% chance that this non-IT guy is making the decisions in your data center.<\/p>\n

Telecom or Real Estate Companies Own Most of the World\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Data Centers<\/h2>\n

Only 2 of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top 10 data centers<\/a> are owned by an IT or Technology company. Realty and telecom brands own the rest. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s take a look at some of the companies that own the top data centers in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Digital Realty<\/h3>\n

Digital Realty built the global standard for a technical real estate<\/strong>, developing a unique capability to acquire, manage, and scale data center campuses.<\/p>\n

CoreSite<\/h3>\n

CoreSite Realty Corporation<\/strong> delivers secure, reliable, high-performance data center and interconnection solutions…<\/p>\n

Terremark<\/h3>\n

Verizon owned Terremark (a Telecom company).<\/p>\n

QTS<\/h3>\n

QTS Realty Trust<\/strong>, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) is a leading provider of secure, compliant data center, hybrid cloud and managed services.<\/p>\n

How To Run A Data Center<\/h2>\n

Let me pose a simple \u00e2\u20ac\u0153would you rather\u00e2\u20ac\u009d question:<\/p>\n

Assuming all other factors were equal (price, experience, etc.) would you rather have a real estate expert manage your server or an IT professional?<\/p>\n

Obviously, you would choose the IT professional. A real estate expert and an IT professional will have different priorities. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the same dilemma occurring with these top data centers.\u00c2\u00a0 For a real estate, at the moment of making decisions about an investment to improve or innovation, they are going to have a very different set of priorities than someone with 20 years of hands-on experience in technology.\u00c2\u00a0 Many data centers aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run as they should because the perspectives and priorities are different.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is exactly why ServerPronto was able to offer dedicated servers for $25\/mo back in 2001 when everyone thought the bottom line price was $300-$500\/mo.<\/p>\n

Running a Data Center<\/h2>\n

IT professionals found and is still own ServerPronto. This results in several key benefits over phone company, or real estate owned data centers:<\/p>\n

We understood that you don’t need a fancy building with biometric security and 3,000 square feet of diamond plate on the walls (that stuff is crazy expensive<\/a>). We run a clean, secure, SSEA16\/SOC Certified<\/a> data center with 0-mile connectivity to multiple tier-1 carriers. Also, we keep it staffed 24\/7 with Microsoft\/Cisco\/Red Hat\/etc. certified engineers – because these are the features that make a difference to organizations that need great dedicated hosting and IaaS.<\/p>\n

Our IT background gives us several key benefits over phone company, or real estate owned data centers:<\/p>\n