Colo4Dallas: Pauls Blog Colo4Dallas is a carrier neutral colocation facility. For colocation facilities, datacenter providers, rackspace providers, windows managed servers, cabinet space and more, choose Colo4 Dallas. http://www.colo4dallas.com en-us technology Colo4Dallas http://www.colo4dallas.com/images/p_vanmeter.gif http://www.colo4dallas.com 88 88 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=38 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=38 Colo4 Customer Stimulus Plan I have some great news for our loyal customers.  Now that our facility expansion  is complete in to 3004 Irving Blvd, we were looking for a way to help our current customers grow.  A large part of our business is from our customers expanding their foo]]>... read more Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=36 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=36 The First Ten Cabinets Last week Pat and I were discussing the customer loyalty we have enjoyed since we started the company. For fun we looked at an old spreadsheet from the first row of cabinets we installed. There were only 10 cabinets in that row. The first thing we noticed was that seven years ago we wer]]>... read more Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=35 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=35 Expansion Update The project next door is coming together nicely. The generators, transformers and ATSs are in place and connectivity is established. I have personally given some tours lately of the new site and get the same response over and over through the tour. That response is “WOW!”... read more Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=34 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=34 New Facility Update Last week the tenant at 3004 Irving Blvd completed their relocation. This allowed us to start today on several projects that were delayed until the building was vacant. When you come to the facility you will notice that it may look like few people are here. This is because of the expans]]>... read more Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=33 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=33 Dallas Carrier Neutral Colocation When we started Colo4Dallas in October of 2000 the goal was to provide carrier neutral colocation. At the time few carriers were actually building in to new buildings so this moved slowly. Many customers were looking for a bundled package of space, power and pipe (bandwidth) so we decid]]>... read more Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=32 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=32 Phase II has started I referred to my last entry as Phase I. I am a little late on the announcement, but this is Phase II.

Colo4Dallas has purchased 3000 and 3004 Irving Blvd, in addition to the lease of the Level3 facility at 3439 Irving Blvd. This takes our total space from 28,000 square feet at ]]>... read more Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=31 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=31 Colo4Dallas Expansion (Phase I) Colo4Dallas has leased around 40,000 square feet of raw data center space in the Level3 facility. As part of the agreement we will be finishing out the space with raised floor, CRAC units and power capabilities of 250 watts per foot. The space is currently under construction with genera]]>... read more Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=30 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=30 Colo4Dallas achieves SAS70 As many people know I had set a personal goal to achieve our SAS70 for Colo4Dallas. That was accomplished last month. We feel this is an important milestone that is becoming a standard to differentiate between datacenters. Few datacenters in Dallas have achieved the SAS70 certification.]]>... read more Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=29 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=29 24/7 On-Site Tech Support From the beginning of Colo4Dallas I made a commitment to offer 24/7/365 on-site technicians. This is something that has costs our company significantly, but also saved our customers a lot of downtime. I find it hard to believe that facilities our size, and several much larger, still do ]]>... read more Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=28 http://www.colo4dallas.com/blog.php?sec=3&sub=1&blog_id=28 Data Center Cabling When you walk in to a datacenter your first impression is very important. A lot of providers, and even enterprise businesses, choose to hide the cabling under the floor. While some have done a neat and organized job under the floor, many have used it as a place to hide the mess. As the ]]>... read more Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600