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World wide well known company datacenters locations

October 23, 2016 by Walter López

The latest couple of articles examined in some basic advices to choose a datacenter for your company.

This article exposes the location of world wide well known datacenters which belongs to companies like Google, IBM, Amazon (AWS) and a few others. The objective of this post is to share the location of such datacenters as of typing to these lines; it is based upon the good practice of reducing latency through short geographical separation among the DC and the own company headquarters.

So, let’s go ahead to meet the datacenter location of the chosen companies.

Google

Google’s datacenters are distributed into three major regions around the world, these are: Americas, Europe and Asia.The following image shows in the Google’s datacenter locations by specific country:

The most noteworthy hosting services offered by Google belongs to their public cloud, in specific:

Compute
Storage and Databases
Networking
Big Data
Machine learning
Management tools
Developer tools
Identity and security

You may check out an updated list of Google’s datacenter in this link.

Advices to choose a data center for my company

September 25, 2016 by Walter López

In the previous release was outlined how the location, reputation of the data centre, own customer needs and technical infrastructure are key components to choose a data center. This new article will fulfill a series of basic advices every manager ought consider in this matter.

Technical support

In choosing a data center I will pay undivided attention to the technical support staff. How well versed are the field engineers? How many are in there? What about their shifts? I would expect to have 24/7 coverage while making sure the CEs aren’t exhausted like to fall in error due to fatigue. The same questions applies for OS (Linux, Windows, etc) engineers -if offered by the DC (data center) as managed-service.

Are updated the resources in state-of-the-art technologies? Do they take trainings often? These are couple of important questions to ask.

Data centre for my company

September 25, 2016September 23, 2016 by Walter López

The dynamics of IT operations typically will take the business to choose a data centre for the company. The small businesses uses to search for hosting services while large companies goes beyond elastic grow. This article examines some tips to choose a data centre and mentions the location of some of them.

The proximity of the data centre to the own company is always mentioned as first tip; however, it seems to be valid when colocation services will be used often. Also, sometimes a near data centre is a must be local laws demands it. For the instance, the public sector -central government- requires their servers in the same country; in contrast, private capitals may hire data centre services offshore unless they really need the data centre near to their facilities.