The average office building is ill-equipped to deal with the types of outages that often constitute disasters within the framework of information technology. Although a UPS power supply is an essential part of your system’s foundation, it can only provide power for so long. Unpredictable events such as power outages or local infrastructure damage can have catastrophic effects on systems that rely solely on local connectivity.
CIS leverages our data center to provide clients an alternative to co-locate their equipment offsite to ensure uptime. The CIS data center features multiply-redundant bandwidth coming in from all of the major providers, triply-redundant power through natural gas generators, state-of-the-art video surveillance, key-card access controls, as well as leading-edge fire suppression and HVAC systems. The CIS data center is fully capable of running indefinitely without a local power connection, as has been proven throughout our history including during the blackout of 2003 that affected the entire Eastern Seaboard.
Co-location offers benefits beyond power and bandwidth redundancy. CIS’s expert engineers provide managed services to care for physical hardware and provide baseline coverage for the operating environment, allowing our client’s internal IT staff to worry less about existing equipment in order to focus on new initiatives. CIS can offer nearly unlimited bandwidth from our datacenter, speeding up web and remote access operations. Additionally, our superior security infrastructure ensures that your equipment is protected not only from malicious attacks, but from unadvisable climate conditions, fire, flooding, and other unknowns that are mitigated by the controlled environment of a top-of-the-line datacenter.