Baltimore co-location is affordable

Customers are attracted to Baltimore are due to a number of important reasons. According to a recent survey conducted by our marketing team, collocation's pricing in Baltimore is more affordable in comparison to other major collocation facilities in the United States. While the cost considerations are on everyone's mind during these turbulent times, informed customers tend to look beyond the initial pricing and evaluate a solution within a framework of business objectives and long-term goals.

Geographical positioning

A series of natural disasters in the south-west and impact of 9/11 have brought to light the importance of geographical location when evaluating the collocation data centers. For example, the state of California is located in the earthquake zone and suffering from the energy crisis. On the other side of the US map, southern states, like Florida, Mississippi and Texas are frequented by hurricanes and floods. Never less, this evident recipe for a disaster can be avoided through careful selection of "safer" geographical regions.

Another growing trend seen as the companies move business-critical data services away from large metropolitan areas have re-shaped the data center industry during the recent years. Visionary CTO's recognize that geographical data center positioning is no longer about the pricing and ease of staff access to the facility, but rather a foundation of sound business strategy to minimize exposure and risks to business continuity. Baltimore collocation offers the best of both worlds:

• Its strategically located within a driving distance to Washington, DC, Wilmington, Delaware and Philadelphia, PA;
• State of Maryland benefits from highly redundant power-grid system designed to provide reliable energy to local military bases and numerous government entities in the region.
• The city of Baltimore is located in the zone that scientists consider to be shielded from frequent seismic activity, hurricanes, floods or other natural disasters.

Fast and Redundant Data Connectivity

Recognizing the strategic importance of Baltimore, many Tier-1 bandwidth providers have considerable presence within the city limits. Leading communications companies like Level 3, MCI/ Verizon, XO Communications, PCCW, BTN Access, Global Crossing, Cogent and others have demonstrated their commitment by building scalable infrastructure engineered for speed of data transmission and enhanced by diversified dark fiber paths.

Customer Proximity

One of the common and frequently overlooked collocation selection criteria that have a tendency to evade many prospecting clients is the customer proximity to a data source. "The 8 second web page rule" emphasizes that a business will lose a customer if the web page is not completely loaded within 8 seconds. Unfortunately, this generic rule does not take into the account the unique characteristics of online business and sociological customer online behavior. With a consideration for the largest concentration of broadband Internet users and highest population density in the North-East of US, companies that do business on the Internet must adapt customer focus and bring the content closer to the customer. Below is a quick highlight of specific market segments that directly benefit from collocation with Hostventures in our Baltimore data centers:

• Local Maryland business offering information products and services
• State of Maryland is the gaming hub of the world
• Highest population demographics and concentration of high-speed of users
• Highest density of colleges and university in the North-East
• Low latency connections to European and Asian Hubs

Conclusion

From all the evaluation angles, Baltimore collocation is ideal solution for local Maryland based business and anyone targeting their online services towards high-speed users. Would you like to learn more? Give us a call and let us introduce you to the best collocation deal in Maryland.