Colocation North West Quarter Rack [...], $ (on request)

Quarter Rack Colocation has been updated on July 1, 2016 (added June 30, 2016)

🌏 Server Locations :	United States
⚑ Targeting :	US

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📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Colocation Northwest is a Seattle-area colocation, connectivity and managed-infrastructure provider focused on businesses throughout the Pacific Northwest. The company operates as part of IsoFusion, a privately held Washington telecommunications and IT organization whose corporate history reaches back to 1991. That history began with ISOMEDIA, founded by Stephen Milton, while the present IsoFusion organization also identifies Dan Sivils among its founders.

Colocation Northwest has the profile of a specialized regional infrastructure company rather than a conventional shared hosting provider. Its team size is estimated at 11–50 employees, while the wider IsoFusion organization is considerably larger.

The main service is colocation, available through retail, wholesale and hybrid arrangements. Retail colocation accommodates deployments ranging from one physical server to several full cabinets. Wholesale environments are suitable for customers requiring multiple cabinets, private suites, cages or substantially larger dedicated areas.

Hybrid colocation combines private infrastructure capacity with professional monitoring, maintenance and engineering assistance. This arrangement works particularly well for organizations that need dedicated space and power but do not have technicians located near the data center.

Technical assistance can cover the complete infrastructure lifecycle, including capacity planning, hardware procurement, equipment delivery, rack installation, cabling, operating-system deployment, network configuration, monitoring, maintenance and emergency repairs. International businesses can therefore establish a computing presence in Washington without maintaining their own local engineering team.

The wider service portfolio includes private cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud architecture, dedicated servers, virtual private servers, cloud connectivity, remote backups, disaster recovery, infrastructure migration, managed services, IT consulting, network design and high-density computing.

Private-cloud projects can use customer-owned hardware placed inside the company’s facilities or leased infrastructure assembled around dedicated servers and scalable VPS resources. Engineering assistance is available for both new deployments and the modernization of older environments.

Direct and private cloud connectivity is available for platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. The engineering team can also design hybrid and multi-cloud environments distributed across several data centers, availability zones or geographic regions.

Managed physical assistance is divided into Remote Hands, Smart Hands and Expert Hands. Remote Hands covers basic work such as visual inspections, indicator checks, equipment observation and power cycling.

Smart Hands extends the service to drive replacements, cable installation, patch-panel changes, equipment mounting and routine physical maintenance. Expert Hands is intended for advanced server, operating-system, networking, security and infrastructure tasks performed by experienced engineers.

The consulting service includes server architecture, equipment selection, software evaluation, network design, system administration, infrastructure upgrades, security audits, hardware repairs and complete data center planning. These services can supplement an internal IT department or provide full operational coverage for organizations without dedicated infrastructure specialists.

Migration support covers applications, data, physical equipment and network connectivity. Projects can involve movement from an office server room, another data center, legacy infrastructure or a public cloud environment. Assistance is available for planning, transport coordination, installation, configuration and final service activation.

High-density environments support customers requiring more than 10 kW per cabinet or approximately 150 watts per square foot. These configurations are relevant for artificial intelligence, scientific computing, biotechnology, virtualization, big-data processing, Internet of Things platforms and other compute-intensive applications.

Transpacific connectivity is another valuable part of the service. Access through West Coast carrier hotels and international cable landing routes supports low-latency communication with Asian and Pacific markets. An interconnection with PCCW Global (pccwglobal.com) also provides access to Console Connect and additional international cloud-connectivity options.

The website operates in English, uses a modern responsive layout and presents pricing references in U.S. dollars.