Setting up a business-grade network to serve your customers, employees, and everyone else your business works with takes a lot of planning. There are many factors to weigh, and depending on where your customers and employees are physically located, there may be a lot of distance to cover. Applications can slow down noticeably the farther they sit from their users, so if you are trying to serve a customer in Argentina while your main network sits in Canada, latency becomes a real problem. Miami colocation is one way to solve that, since it puts your infrastructure closer to your target audience. There are other reasons to use colocation too. You might not have international customers, but you might still need to be in a data center for security or regulatory reasons. Data centers also act as marketplaces for many ISPs, so colocation customers get access to the best connections available for serving up data.
Why Location Still Drives Miami Colocation Decisions
The most traditional benefit of colocation is having infrastructure in the same geographic area as your customers. The farther a server sits from the customer, the higher the latency climbs, regardless of provider, because the internet can only travel so fast, and a cross-country trip takes longer than one across the state or even the city. Placing data centers in every major market gets expensive fast, even for large companies, which is why colocation is such a popular alternative. For international markets, especially where local IT infrastructure lags behind what is available in the US, the nearest US city often makes the best colocation site. Many of our customers use Miami colocation to serve clients in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and beyond, since our data center works out more cost effective than local solutions while offering stronger internet connectivity.
Resilience and Security Built Into Our Data Center
Our data center is also built to be highly resilient, since we know your applications need to stay available around the clock. Both power and internet run in an N+1 configuration, so there is always a spare UPS or internet connection ready in case a piece of hardware or cabling fails. That is how we back an SLA with 99.999% availability and keep you running at all times. Uptime is not the only benefit of being in a data center. We also keep significant security in place to protect your hardware. Access requires a successful fingerprint scan from authorized personnel with a security badge, and 24×7 security agents monitor the full facility. Many regulatory agencies require this, along with off-site data storage, so our customers value having it built in.
Optimized Internet Connectivity for Colocation Customers
Circling back to the internet connectivity available in the data center, our optimized internet packages give customers the best possible connection with the lowest latency and the least packet loss and jitter for client connections outside the data center. We achieve this through proprietary techniques on our internal infrastructure, blended with multiple ISPs, so only the best connection gets used. This is also part of how we provide N+1 connectivity to the internet: if ISP A fails, you fail over to ISP B, C, D, or another option immediately, keeping your customers and employees online.
To learn more about our data center space in Miami, reach out to us by calling (305) 735-8098 option 2 or by emailing sales@vaultnetworks.com.