Space and power
Compare cabinet, cage, power, cooling, physical security, access rules, and expansion expectations around the equipment.
11 / Data center
Colocation that makes ownership and responsibility clear.
Compare data center space, connectivity, access, security, and support for equipment your business wants to own or control.
Colocation is more than a rack. It is a shared plan for facility services, equipment, network paths, access, and response.
01 / Overview
Keep the equipment. Improve the environment around it.
Colocation can move servers and network equipment out of an office while preserving more control than a fully hosted service. That tradeoff can be useful, but only when facility access, cross-connects, remote hands, monitoring, security, backup, and ownership are explicit.
We help you compare colocation with hosted infrastructure, private cloud, and on-site options based on the equipment, applications, team, and continuity expectations involved.
02 / What we help with
The useful details behind the decision.
We help connect the service to the users, locations, applications, and support model that make it work in practice.
Connectivity and cross-connects
Plan internet, private networks, cloud access, carriers, cross-connects, and redundant paths before the move.
Remote hands
Clarify what the facility can do for reboots, visual checks, cabling, swaps, and incidents when your team is elsewhere.
Physical and cyber security
Connect facility controls, equipment hardening, identity, network security, monitoring, and response responsibilities.
Migration and installation
Sequence inventory, transport, cabling, testing, maintenance windows, and cutover around business tolerance for disruption.
Backup and recovery
Keep copies, failover, restoration, documentation, and ownership visible instead of assuming the facility solves continuity.
03 / Who it’s for
Built around the business behind the system.
The right design changes with the work. Here are a few of the local businesses and operating models we help think through.
Healthcare
Keep clinical, administrative, imaging, scheduling, and recovery workflows available without making every infrastructure decision internal.
Financial teams
Plan controlled access, resilient workloads, records, and continuity around sensitive financial operations.
Technology companies
Give product, engineering, and operations teams an environment that can support changing workloads and clear ownership.
Manufacturing
Connect business systems, production support, file workflows, and recovery expectations across plants and offices.
Professional services
Support client work, collaboration, secure access, and predictable systems without losing sight of the people running them.
Multi-site operations
Create a consistent infrastructure approach across branches, warehouses, clinics, and distributed teams.
04 / How we work
A simpler path through a complicated choice.
Good advice starts with context and stays useful through the handoff.
Understand
We listen before we prescribe.We map your current setup, friction points, users, locations, and priorities so the recommendation starts with the real business.
Compare
We make the tradeoffs visible.We evaluate providers and paths side by side, then explain fit, assumptions, service terms, and the work required to move forward.
Support
We stay for the handoff.From implementation through ongoing optimization, we help keep the moving parts connected and accountable.
05 / The Salish point of view
A rack is not the whole operating model.
We are vendor-neutral and compare facility quality, network paths, equipment ownership, support, security, and recovery together. Providers may compensate us when you choose a service. We do not promise savings; scope and any fees are explained before work begins.
Ask a practical questionLocal context
See the work in your market.
Our city pages add local context to the same clear comparison process. Start with the market closest to your business.
06 / Questions, answered
Useful answers before the first conversation.
Direct answers are a better starting point than a generic feature list.
Bring us your questionWhat is colocation?
Colocation places business-owned servers or network equipment in a provider’s data center. The provider typically supplies facility services such as space, power, cooling, physical security, and connectivity, while responsibilities for equipment and applications remain defined by agreement.
Why would a business choose colocation?
Colocation can fit a business that wants to control its equipment while improving facility conditions, connectivity, physical security, or geographic placement compared with an office server room.
Does colocation include managed IT support?
Not automatically. Some facilities offer remote hands or managed services, but equipment, operating systems, applications, security, backup, and response responsibilities should be confirmed before choosing.
Can colocation connect to public cloud?
Often, yes. The practical path depends on the facility, carriers, cross-connects, network design, security controls, and the cloud services your workloads use.
How much does colocation guidance cost?
In many cases, providers compensate us when you choose a service. If a project includes fees, we explain the scope and fees before work begins.
A practical next step
Let’s make the colocation tradeoffs visible.
Tell us what you own, what needs to connect, and where the current facility creates friction. We will help compare the environment and the operating responsibilities.