Ft. Worth Based Colocation Brokerage Firm Places Fortune 500 Client In State-Of-The-Art Facility

Colobids.com (www.colobids.com), a Fort Worth based leader in Colocation Brokerage Services, is announcing the placement of Fortune 500 client U.S. Oncology in a Top Tier, State-Of-The-Art, Datacenter Facility. End Quote

We are pleased to announce the placement of U.S. Oncology into a brand new, State-Of-The-Art Facility this past year

(1888PressRelease) August 27, 2009 - Fort Worth, TX - Ted Persky, CEO of Colobids.com says "We are pleased to announce the placement of U.S. Oncology into a brand new, State-Of-The-Art Facility this past year"

U.S. Oncology, the nations premier provider of cancer care and research since 1999, was looking for the perfect location for one of their sites. With the concern of security and compliancy being paramount, U.S. Oncology chose the services of Colobids (http://www.colobids.com) to help them find the right datacenter facility and location.

David Martin, National Director of IT Projects for U.S. Oncology stated, "We have no complaints, our new provider has been very service oriented."

Companies like U.S. Oncology are quickly finding that utilizing the service companies like Colobids.com can be very effective.

By adopting outsourced IT strategies, and utilizing top tier datacenter facilities to colocate their equipment, companies are finding that they can:

* Reduce operating costs by utilizing on site 24/7 employees of the datacenter provider

* Create redundancy and high availability by using the colocation facilities redundant bandwidth, power and HVAC cooling

* Preserve their control on their environment by still having the ultimate control over their own hardware.

* Excercise economies of scale as they want to add more colocation equipment and higher end servers to their infrastructure

Growing Trends over the past years have exposed that companies are moving away from running their own in-house servers, as well as moving away from renting or leasing a dedicated server. There have been several reasons for the increased awareness in colocation services. Server hardware expenses are decreasing, and companies IT requirements are growing more involved, and companies are needing more specific hardware requirements, and more complex network architectures within their environments.

One of the biggest questions for individuals looking for colocation today is… Who should I colocate my equipment with?

What company do I want to trust my enterprise and livelihood with?

These are important questions and should not be ignored. The most central factors to keep in mind when looking to outsource your colocation are several of the following:

* Find proven providers, with reliable support technicians on-site who can handle reboots and custom requests 24/7.

* Attain a Secure environment with top Managed Firewall and Intrusion Protection Services

* Find a top tier network consisting of multiple tier 1 carriers that provide redundancy and reduced latency

Location is extremely important when looking for colocation providers, obviously, because customers need to find facilities that are easily accessible, within close proximity of hardware providers in case of issues.

That being said, at this time finding the right provider can be a daunting task. That is where dealing with a colocation brokerage firm can help. Companies like Colo Bids (http://www.colobids.com) typically don’t charge a fee, and they are datacenter agnostic so they are completely unbiased. They have a vested interest in helping the client get the absolute best pricing, and ideal colocation solution depending on their requirements. Most importantly, colocation brokers save the client alot of time and money by doing all the tough work for them.

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