Texas Data Center: The Premier Location for IT Performance

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Texas Data Center

• The Premier Location for IT Performance

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Texas Data Center

• The Premier Location for IT Performance

• Why do providers favor Texas data centers?
• For a number of reasons.
• Texas offers a number of factors with a positive
  impact on overall IT performance.
• Over the past few years, Texas has become the
  premier data center market. As electricity is one
  of the most attractive attributes and a large
  reason for the initial industry growth, several
  additional reasons exist for why this market
  continues to boom.

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Texas Data Center

• The Premier Location for IT Performance

• Some of these include
• Very low probability of natural disaster
• Central geographic location
• Statewide green initiatives
• Stable, inexpensive and abundant power (multiple
  grids)
• Extensive talent pool
• One of the lowest cost of living indexes in the
  U.S.
• Low carrier latency
• CNBC Ranked the overall market 1 for business in
  2010
• A Texas data center can leverage all of these
  benefits and more.

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Texas Data Center

• The Premier Location for IT Performance

• The following tactics can help all data center
  providers, but especially those located in the
  Lone Star state.
• Conserve Power.
• Consolidate.
• Disaster Recovery.
• Connectivity.
• Human Resources.

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Texas Data Center

• The Premier Location for IT Performance

• In the past several years, Texas has become the
  hot spot for stand-alone and colocated enterprise
  data centers. The state has its own power grid
  and cheaper electricity than other major Internet
  markets.
• CyrusOne operates 10 Texas data centers -- four
  data center facilities in Dallas, three in
  Houston, two in Austin and one in San Antonio.
• Opening its doors in 2000, CyrusOne was a large
  part of the Texas boom and has become the largest
  enterprise colocation provider in Texas.

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About the Author

• Nicole Aguillard is marketing director for
  CyrusOne, a global enterprise colocation provider
  operating 23 highly secure data centers across
  the United States, London and Singapore. Learn
  more about a Data Center Move by visiting
  http//www.cyrusone.com/.