Thanks, everyone for the suggestions and comments.  All have been forwarded
to the nephew; it's up to him now.

Curt


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Steven S. Critchfield <[email protected]>wrote:

> Someone mentioned Sunguard. They are decent. In the 10+ years I have had
> access to their colo, it has become less helpful. They have been good solid
> network, and space providers. They do have space available in the colo, and
> they have cube and meeting space for your DR needs. They are a tad
> expensive, but part of that is also having staff on site 24/7 to do some
> hands on work for you.
>
> For instance of the hands on stuff. We have a switch that on occasion
> decides to flake out. When it does, traffic slows, and eventually stops. We
> have a red ribbon on the power cord for the switch, we call up, they go
> pull the cord and plug it back in. No one has to drive in to fix the
> problem.
>
> When I say they are less helpful now. When we first went into the space,
> there was a lot of very knowledgable people there, and they could help on a
> lot of issues. We didn't need it much then, but it gave us nice warm
> fuzzies for it being available. Recently we where being attacked as part of
> an amplification attack. The new support in Colorado didn't have
> access/software/support to help us understand the problem, and correct it.
> They just sugested giving us more bandwidth temporarily to cope. But of
> course that would have just helped someone else suffer more.
>
> Out of the 10+ years there, we have only had 1 power failure, 1 cooling
> issue, and I think 1 network issue. The power was due to a transformer fire
> and OEM telling them to turn off the generator. The cooling issue was just
> a issue where they didn't install additional cooling soon enough. It only
> caused one machine to reboot. That same machine is working on a over 2k day
> uptime now.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Had a call from my nephew this afternoon. His company needs to move
> > their DR site and is considering the Nashville area. I know there are
> > several companies who maintain extensive DR sites in the area,
> > Deloitte/Touche comes to mind.
> >
> > Their requirements are fairly simple, one rack in a data center plus
> > office space for one or two people, within walking distance. 10 Mbits
> > for one
> > connection, and a couple of 40 Mbit connections.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any leads, hints, dire warnings, etc.
> >
> > Curt
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