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  • Flexential

    Colocation built for the mid market: one relationship covering racks, cloud, and recovery.

    Best for: mid market hybrid IT

  • DartPoints

    Edge colocation for the markets the industry skips; enterprise grade capacity close to home.

    Best for: secondary market proximity

  • Switch

    Engineering and density: the campuses other data centers get compared to.

    Best for: dense and critical workloads

  • Digital Realty

    Global scale with a growth path: cabinet to cage to suite without changing providers.

    Best for: growth from cabinets to suites

  • TierPoint

    Regional colocation with a disaster recovery backbone; infrastructure an hour away, not a flight away.

    Best for: regional markets and recovery

  • Iron Mountain Data Centers

    The compliance pedigree data center: security and chain of custody as engineering, not marketing.

    Best for: regulated and federal workloads

  • Equinix

    The interconnection standard: the buildings where clouds, carriers, and markets physically meet.

    Best for: cloud and network adjacency

  • Cologix

    The network neutral interconnection hubs of Canada, plus key United States gateways.

    Best for: Canadian presence and network hubs

  • DataBank

    United States breadth: data centers near your operations in metro after metro, under one contract.

    Best for: many metros under one contract

  • CoreSite

    Urban interconnection campuses with cloud on ramps where enterprises actually deploy.

    Best for: big metro cloud on ramps

  • 365 Data Centers
  • Aligned Energy
  • Ark Data Centers
  • AtlasEdge Data Centers
  • Centersquare
  • DC Blox
  • DaSTOR (Dastor)
  • Data Canopy
  • Datum DataCentres
  • Digital Crossroad
  • Digital Fortress
  • Element Critical
  • Evocative
  • Global Switch Limited
  • Metrobloks
  • NTT Global Data Centers
  • NYI
  • Netrality Data Centers
  • ValorC3 Data Centers
  • Verne Global
  • Volico / Sling Broadband / Faster.IO
  • eStruxture
  • nLighten
  • phoenixNAP

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  • One conversation instead of five vendor sales processes.
  • You buy directly from the provider you choose, at the same or better pricing: providers quote sharper when they know the whole market is being compared.
  • Advice that includes "don't buy this," because we have no stake in which provider wins.
  • Coverage of the whole market, including providers you've never heard of.
  • Provider claims checked against what advisors see across live quotes, not against brochures.

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  1. 1.Tell us what you need.
  2. 2.A Technology Advisor talks with you and understands your requirements.
  3. 3.Your advisor compares the whole market and recommends 3 to 5 providers that meet them. You sign directly with the one you choose; we arrange the demos and pull quotes across all of them, free, with no obligation.

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