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Along with the rest of the IT landscape, the data center marketplace is always evolving. When selecting a data center operator for your business, it’s important to choose a provider that can keep up with your company’s changing needs, including cybersecurity, compliance, and cloud workload. DataBank leverages a customer-centric approach to offer a data center platform that can be configured to meet your organization’s specific requirements.
Representatives from DataBank recently met with our team of cloud consultants to review the provider’s key offerings. Here’s everything you need to know about this vendor and how their data center, cloud, and interconnectivity solutions can benefit your business.
Provider Overview
Based in Dallas, DataBank offers enterprise-grade data center, interconnectivity, and cloud solutions, as well as managed services. The company got its start in 2005, and its founders were aware of the growing demand for personalized colocation solutions. Today, DataBank has served thousands of customers and has 15 data centers in eight North American markets.
Featured Offerings
DataBank provides a range of best-in-class platforms and solutions, covering everything from colocation to cloud migration. Here’s a brief overview of some of their standout offerings.
Colocation: Get access to a top-tier outsourced data center environment with cutting edge security and reliability. DataBank can provide customized solutions, ranging from single-rack deployments to 10,000 square foot private suites. For business continuity purposes, the provider also ensures 100 percent uptime.
Compliant hosting: For organizations that must comply with regulatory requirements, DataBank can implement a best practice security and compliance framework that accounts for controls for network/perimeter, physical, system/host, continuous monitoring, and facility access. The provider takes ownership of up to 80 percent of compliance controls. Compliant hosting is available for the following:
- HIPAA
- FedRAMP/FISMA
- PCI-DSS
- SSAE-18
- GDPR – Privacy Shield
Connectivity: In order to maintain leading data center solutions, DataBank delivers high-quality connectivity and interconnection. Clients can choose from various inter-market and in-market connection options. Additionally, this provider has partnered with Megaport, a prominent network as a service provider, to offer private and secure access to cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
DataBank Customer Portal: All clients gain access to a portal with real-time analytics concerning performance, compliance, security, and more. The portal allows your business to connect with the DataBank team for support as well as manage your solutions and assets.
If you’d like more information about solutions from DataBank and other providers, our team of cloud consultants can help. We have experience working with a wide range of solutions from various providers in our partner network. That gives us the insight we need to effectively serve as a trusted advisor to our clients.
Whether you go through us or purchase a solution directly from the supplier, the cost will be the same. We have a price parity guarantee. Additionally, partnering with us will save your business both time and money, since we can inform you of the strengths and weaknesses of each provider and show how they compare to other vendors. Your organization will benefit from making a decision based on a truly agnostic and thorough assessment at no extra cost.
Our expert team can identify cloud and security solutions that fit your business’s unique needs, whether you’re a small organization with a limited budget or a larger enterprise. Email sales@stratospherenetworks.com or call 877-599-3999 to connect with our consultants today.
