Location is a key factor in selecting a Michigan data center
When considering a data center the real estate adage “location, location, location” certainly plays an important factor. Many IT executives want a data center in Michigan that is within reasonable distance from the office so they are able to conveniently attend to their colocation. Convenient traveling is not the only reason location has a major influence on choosing a Michigan data center, however. Finding a Michigan data center that utilizes a separate power grid than your primary data center is also important. As well, choosing a data center that resides in a separate geographic location is also important. Online Technologies’ three Michigan data centers meet all of the necessary location demands.
Online Technologies offers three data center locations in Michigan, serving Michigan and the Great Lakes region. With data centers located in downtown Ann Arbor, Flint, and south Ann Arbor, OTC’s facilities are conveniently located from many major Michigan cities, such as Detroit, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Lansing, and obviously, Ann Arbor and Flint. And the locations are also conveniently located from cities within Ohio, including: Canton, Youngstown, Toledo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus—and Indiana, including: South Bend, Elkhart, Muncie, Bloomington, Hammond, Gary, and Fort Wayne.
In addition to residing in convenient locations, Online Technologies’ Michigan data centers also reside on separate power grids. While the Ann Arbor data centers utilize power from Detroit Edison’s power grid, the Flint data center resides in Consumers Energy’s grid. If one utility company is experiencing a major issue—such as the Blackout of 2003—OTC’s Michigan data centers are still operational through the other utility provider (it’s important to note, however, that all OTC data centers are equipped with UPS battery backup and generators to survive and data center power outage).
The geographic separation between Online Technologies’ Michigan data centers not only provides OTC the advantage of separate power grids, but it also provides a separation from devastating weather or other geographically isolated disaster. Therefore, if your business’ disaster recovery equipment is located in OTC’s Flint Michigan data center, and a weather disaster, such as a tornado, causes your business to experience a loss of mission-critical data, your business can be back up and running in no time.
Just as you would when buying your home, when your business is considering a data center, consider the location. Online Technologies’ data centers offer convenient location from major cities in the Great Lakes region, separate power grids, and geographic separation.
