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I ran across a  TechTarget article this morning that offers up some alternatives when you’re out of room or power, facing security threats, or forced to meet new compliance requirements in your corporate data center. The author presents compelling “pros” and “cons” for each alternative, including hardware consolidation, colocation and the Cloud. (I must point out that the colocation con about limited physical access isn’t true at EasyStreet — as long as you are authorized, badged and fingerprinted, you can access your equipment 24/7 as an EasyStreet colocation customer.)

What works for your organization may depend on its size. The author says, “A small business that depends on high Web traffic will benefit from a simple managed Web hosting solution, which may be the most economical solution.” He further suggests that many midrange companies may find colocation services “an ideal compromise between renting space on preconfigured servers and owning an expensive data center.”

You can read the entire article here. What growth management strategies might your company consider in 2010?

Everybody loves a reason to celebrate so EasyStreet recently provided one for our colocation customers. Our first customer signed up for colocation in November 1998 so it gave us a reason to party! Many of our colocation customers joined us, including John Schmitt of OakTree Digital, who won our cool prize for the earliest colo customer to attend. (OakTree came on board in May of 1999.) Following is a picture of John receiving his award — The Internet Now in Handy Book Form. (We also gave him a nice bottle of Chardonnay from Holloran Vineyard Wines in West Linn. Bill Holloran, who owns the winery and is president of Content Management Associates, Inc., is also a long-time EasyStreet colocation customer.) Small world, huh?

John Schmitt from OakTree Digital became an EasyStreet colocation customer in May 1999.

Thank you to all of our loyal EasyStreet customers — colocation and otherwise.

Celebrating 10 years of colocation services with many of our colo customers.