SingleHop Opens Chicago Data Center
Summary
SingleHop chose Digital Realty and its Franklin Park campus (just outside of Chicago) in part because it meant it would be able to customize the data center. The company handles a lot of enterprise private clouds, which necessitated doing things a little differently than typical retail colo, said Jacobs. A 2,000 square foot NOC (Network Operations Center) is built inside the security perimeter. “It’s concurrently maintainable, we can go a step further and isolate an incident on a single PDU.” Private cloud is the company’s fastest-growing product segment. Jacobs believes this is a misconception because people are making the same mistakes in public cloud that they previously made with physical servers: they’re paying for resources they don’t use.